Compass of Anxiety
Compass of Anxiety
Compass of Anxiety
Its hard to find your way around the whole area of anxiety in children, adults and yourself. So here is a useful compass to help you.
Some days the compass will spin, on others it will stay in one place and feelings and behaviour will go into extreme mode.
This compass was inspired by work with people of all ages with autism who know the world of anxiety only too well!
The increased activity area is probably the healthiest and most educational area if you have to be somewhere on the compass.
People do things for a reason, not just because they have autism, behaviour labels or whatever.
Anxiety is very often the reason for all kinds of behaviour that we can struggle with.
Colin Newton
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Increased Activity - Flapping
Pacing
Rocking
Fantasy-Focus-Avoidance
Extreme Loss of Control - Panic
Meltdown
Withdrawal - Shutdown