7 Problems and Solutions to Helping a Friend with Anxiety
What they might not be able to ask for but wish you knew.
Most of us who know or love someone who is anxious intend to be supportive, even helpful, in our interactions.
We know to listen and not judge. To be patient when it’s hard to talk about issues. We even know to keep our own feelings in check so we don’t rev up an already tense situation.
That said, this is OUR experience of loving them.
What it’s like to be the person experiencing the anxiety is something very different. It isn’t always easy to know their loved ones are walking on eggshells or biting their tongues to prevent things from going from bad to wo...
Source: World of Psychology - July 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders Friends Publishers YourTango Abandonment Calming confused Distraction Dr. Alicia H. Clark Expectations Fear Feelings Humor Judgment listen Love overwhelmed positive pressure Questions s Source Type: blogs
Free Live Webinar: Overcoming Fear of Flying
Overcoming Fear of Flying will be focused on understanding flying anxiety, as well as learning what it takes to overcome this common phobia. In particular, we will discuss what from our lives contributes to developing and reinforcing this fear. We will also discuss the Balanced Flying Method — a method our presenter, Nathan Feiles, MSW, LCSW, developed specifically to help people overcome fear of flying. We will learn about this comprehensive approach, why this method is unique and from other treatments, and how it works to transform our internal experience of flying.
3 Take-A-Ways from the Overcoming Fear o...
Source: World of Psychology - July 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Motivation and Inspiration Phobia Psychology Self-Help air sickness Aviophobia Avoidance Fear Of Flying Panic Attacks Self Improvement Travel Worry Source Type: blogs
Cinematherapy: The Healing Power of Movies and TV
A picture may very well be worth a thousand words. A motion picture? Maybe even more than that.
In a March 2016 article for Counseling Today, Bronwyn Robertson, a counselor and member of the American Counseling Association, writes: 1
Barely able to breathe, a young man battling a panic attack hesitantly enters the group room and makes his way to an empty chair. He and a dozen others “check in” and are then guided through a simple, calming breathing exercise. The lights are dimmed and the group members are asked to focus their attention on the flickering images and pulsating sounds coming from a screen in front of ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic Bipolar Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Research Self-Help Source Type: blogs
A Primer For Conservatives: Health Insurance is not Really Insurance
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD
Is health insurance a plan to help healthy people mitigate against an unexpected illness, or an income subsidy to help the sick pay for medical care?
Conservatives ought to have a clear answer to that question. Not long ago Congressman Morris Brooks from Alabama did not and found himself on the receiving end of liberal ridicule.
By suggesting that those who take better care of themselves should pay lower health insurance premiums, Brooks implied that health insurance is indeed a type of insurance arrangement. After all, the risk adjustment of premiums is a practice proper to all other kinds of insurance...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Big Bad Brain
I ’m high, staring at the ceilingSending my love, what a wonderful feelingWhat comes next, I see a lightI ’m along for the ride as I’m taking flight-Sir Sly,HighPlus a cool brain tattoo to boot. AND the song is anearworm (at least it is for me).It feels good to be running from the devilAnother breath and I ' m up another levelIt feels good to be up above the cloudsIt feels good for the first time in a long time now-Sir Sly,HighA monument to love unspokenCarved into stone “Unwilling to come undone”-Sir Sly,HighHere ' s what singer Landon Jacobshad to say about those specific lyrics:“in the face of what I incorre...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 19, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Is Your Worry Normal or a Sign of an Anxiety Disorder?
You worry about passing your exam and surviving your presentation. You worry about making a mistake at work. You worry about not having enough money to pay this month’s bills. You worry about the email you just sent, which misspelled your new coworker’s name. Ughhh.
Some days, it feels like you worry for breakfast, lunch and dinner (with a few snacks in between). Lately, you’ve been wondering if your worry is actually normal. You’ve been wondering, am I worrying too much?
Worry is normal, natural and even adaptive in certain situations, according to Emily Bilek, Ph.D, an assistant professor of clinical psycholog...
Source: World of Psychology - June 15, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders General Health-related Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Students Success & Achievement Anxiety Disorders anxiety signs anxiety specialist Anxiety Symptoms chronic Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Anxiety Lies Constantly – How to Stop Listening
In this episode of the Psych Central Show, hosts Gabe Howard and Vincent M. Wales welcome Jodi Aman, popular psychotherapist, anxiety expert, blogger, radio host, and author of You 1, Anxiety 0: Winning Your Life Back From Fear and Panic. Jodi explains how she cured herself of anxiety and shares great tips on how you can get control over your own anxiety and panic attacks. She also explains anxiety and panic in ways you might never have heard before, giving you a better understanding of what’s really going on.
Listen as Our Hosts Speak with Anxiety Psychotherapist, Jodie Aman:
“Anxiety is telling us: ‘You&#...
Source: World of Psychology - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: Anxiety and Panic General The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Jodi Aman Panic Disorder Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Erasing the Stigma of Geriatric Anxiety and Learning to Help
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The effects of anxiety disorders are becoming ever more prevalent in our society. Even with new research shining a light on how many Americans suffer from these varying disorders, we have only begun to scratch the surface. This is especially true when it comes to understanding anxiety in the elderly.
Higher rates of loss, increased pain, chronic conditions, and multiple medications can all increase the levels of anxiety in senior citizens. This makes having the discussion about geriatric anxiety a crucial factor in aiding our loved on...
Source: Shield My Senior - May 31, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Vin Tags: Senior Safety Source Type: blogs
How to Calm Our Anxious Selves
When I was over at a friend’s house recently, I was fascinated watching their six month old kitten playing with a toy mouse. This kitten had never been outdoors, had never been taught to hunt, and had never been exposed to a mouse. Yet she was a trained hunter: she knew instinctively how to sneak up on this stuffed mouse, how to stalk it, snatch it, and grab it in her mouth. This behavior was hard-wired into her genes.
We are hardwired too. We have a flight or flight response as part of our evolutionary inheritance that allows us to escape life threatening predators and danger. This was particularly useful for survival b...
Source: World of Psychology - May 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Beth Kurland, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Self-Help Stress Anxious Thoughts fight or flight Overreaction Panic Attack Psychology self-soothing Worry Source Type: blogs
Using Acceptance to Manage Anxiety and Stress
This article originally appeared on YourTango.com. Psych Central does not make any profit from any book purchases, services, or otherwise made from this republished article. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - May 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders Publishers Self-Help Stress YourTango acceptance Andrea Miller Aria Gmitter Chris Shea Deb Eastwood Dr. Erica Goodstone Happiness Kathryn Ramsperger Kelly Rudolph Leigh Norén LeNae Goolsby Nan Source Type: blogs
Coping with Anxiety in School and the Workplace
Anxiety can affect anyone at any stage in their life, but it is one of the most common mental disorders on college campuses. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, forty million American adults suffer from an anxiety disorder, and 75% of those people have reported that their first anxiety episode occurred by the time they were twenty two.
Are you among them? Many of us who suffer from anxiety avoid seeking direct help. The stigma attached to the disorder is too strong, or maybe it’s just too embarrassing to open up about it. If you’re on a college campus, there will always be someone in...
Source: World of Psychology - May 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Terry Nguyen Tags: Anxiety and Panic Books Industrial and Workplace Stress Students Success & Achievement Anxious Thoughts Fight-or-flight response overwhelm Panic Attack Panic Disorder Social Anxiety Worry Source Type: blogs
Ketamine: A Miracle Drug for Depression?
A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently discovered why the drug ketamine may act as a rapid antidepressant.
Ketamine is best known as an illicit, psychedelic club drug. Often referred to as “Special K” or a “horse tranquilizer” by the media, it has been around since the 1960s and is a staple anesthetic in emergency rooms and burn centers. In the last 10 years, studies have shown that it can reverse — sometimes within hours or even minutes — the kind of severe, suicidal depression that traditional antidepressants can’t treat.
Researchers writing in the Augu...
Source: World of Psychology - May 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Medications Research addictive Bipolar Disorder dissociative anesthetic Drug Abuse Ketamine Major Depressive Disorder Mood Disorder Mood Stabilizer Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Substance Abuse Source Type: blogs
How to Succeed by Quitting
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“I just feel so trapped! We need the money.” I was terrified. I had spent ten years being a lawyer, and many years before that striving to be exactly where I was. Well, maybe not striving to be crying in my therapist's office which is where I was at that moment, but striving to be an attorney. My therapist nodded empathetically and said, “but do you? Really? Does your daughter need money or a mom who isn’t having weekly a...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: reininginmom Tags: featured philosophy self improvement best self improvement blog family time pickthebrain quitting why you should quit Source Type: blogs
The Reality of Conversion Disorder
Stress is widely defined as a constraining force or influence. Sooner or later, it affects everyone. Most of the time, it’s temporary, but what happens when it’s not?
Long term emotional stress can frequently occur with past trauma, producing a series of real and sometimes dangerous medical consequences. Often times a patient who is suffering from severe pain and does not receive a medical diagnosis, fears that a doctor may label the situation as “Just stress”. But when “Just stress” manifests physically, it should be handled with just as much care as any physically produced injury or disease.
Conversi...
Source: World of Psychology - May 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Lee Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders Dissociative Stress Anxious Thoughts Conversion Disorder Dissociation functional neurological symptom disorder Hysteria hysterical blindness stress reduction Source Type: blogs
