Looking at the OP, at least in part they are
addressing <i>anxiety disease</i>. Their suggestions
sound good.<p>If the suggestions work, terrific.<p>But: As someone who had a close family member
die from anxiety disease, I have to say that
during the long course of the disease
we thought of all those
suggestions, especially <i>cognitive</i> ones,
and many more, and they were all
like a BB gun against a Russian tank. The real
problems were much deeper.<p>And the <i>cognitive</i> approaches, that didn't
work,
were being
tried by a genuinely brilliant patient --
Valedictorian, PBK, <i>Summa Cum Laude</i>,
world famous research university Ph.D.
<i>Cognitive</i>? No shortage of <i>cognitive</i>
ability: The patient saw and understood
the <i>cognitive</i> ideas, maybe more deeply, and
certainly faster than the
professional could present them.
At one point, the professional had the
patient write a paper describing the
cognitive approaches then exclaimed that
the paper was
"brilliant". Yes, it was -- very clear,
etc. And the <i>cognitive</i> approaches?
Total flop.<p>So, after considering such <i>suggestions</i>,
<i>good ideas</i>, and
<i>face validity</i>, I get led to consider
also the old, two criteria -- safety and
efficacy.<p>Again, if the suggestions work, terrific.
But I would suggest for
such patients and their families,
ASAP, and maybe not in this order,
(1), if only to be a better, loving family member, learn as much of the
Clinical Psychology 101 level material
you can and (2) get the best professional
help you can. And for (2), if at first
the <i>treatment</i> doesn't look quite promising and/or
fairly soon there is no
significant progress, which in my small
sample size seems quite likely,
then get some
better professional help.<p>Be careful with anxiety disease:
Else members of the close family
can throw away significant parts of
their lives, and the patient, all of theirs.<p>In K-12 or even in a college STEM BS you
may not have been taught good information
about anxiety disease -- so, at first
symptoms, and you need to know about
such symptoms, get caught up.