The Anxiety You ’re Feeling Might Be Pandemic Grief
Despite a global pandemic that caused the deaths of millions of people and drastically altered our way of life, we still haven’t mastered the art of recognizing grief when it shows up.
Four years ago, life as we knew it slipped away. As news of the covid death tolls rose around the world, we watched footage on television of our front-line workers struggling with overcrowded hospitals, our children were sent home from school, weddings and graduations were canceled, jobs came to a halt, and toilet-paper flew off the shelves. Everywhere you turned someone was losing something or someone. But instead of grief rising t...
Source: TIME: Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire Bidwell Smith Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Andy Kuczmierczyk obituary
My friend Andy Kuczmierczyk, who has died aged 68 of cancer, was professor of clinical psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, and also a life coach and a poet.Starting out on his career in the late-1970s, he studied cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) at Middlesex hospital in central London, under Victor Meyer, a founding father of CBT. Andy deployed adventurous techniques including “flooding”, which involves people with phobias being exposed immediately and directly to the things they fear most.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 25, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Se án Murray Tags: Psychology University of Hertfordshire US news Poland Source Type: news
The five-minute treatment that could cure your phobia of spiders
Increasingly, research is showing how the emotional freedom technique is curing personal phobias. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NBA ’s Kevin Love and UCLA’s Michelle Craske: Teamed up for mental health
NBA star Kevin Love has had many teammates on the basketball court, including his fellow Bruins, the Cleveland Cavaliers and now, of course, the Miami Heat. But one of his all-time favorites may just be his teammate in destigmatizing anxiety and depression: Michelle Craske, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences.In fact, Love is proud that the scientist he fondly calls “Badass Dr. Craske” was named the inaugural holder ofthe Kevin Love Fund Centennial Chairat UCLA— and has completed her first year in the role.“I cannot imagine a better fit. Not only is Michelle Crask...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 23, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
3 Ways Anxiety Can Actually Help You
“Anxiety.” The very word evokes discomfort. Its effects—shortness of breath, pounding heart, muscle tension—are outright distressing. And there’s more of it than ever. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, half of young American adults have significant symptoms. It’s no wonder that the anxiety epidemic is causing us much consternation and concern.
But, as a clinician and researcher, I see a much bigger problem. In our society’s quest to be anxiety-free, we tend to miss out on many valuable opportunities presented by this normal human emotion.
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Source: TIME: Health - October 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David H. Rosmarin Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
How COVID-19 Changed Life for People Terrified of Needles
From the moment COVID-19 reached pandemic designation, Joe McDougall had nightmares. Not, like others, about the potential path of the virus, but about the seemingly inevitable moment at which he’d be asked—or held down and forced—to receive a vaccine. McDougall, now 39, is terrified of needles and a global pandemic meant that for the first time since adolescence, he might not be able to avoid them.
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Of all of the challenges facing mass COVID-19 vaccination, fear of needles is one of the least acknowledged by public-health campaigns. Even what we know ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Spider vs. guns: expectancy and attention biases to phylogenetic threat do not extend to ontogenetic threat - Abado E, Aue T, Okon-Singer H.
INTRODUCTION: Attention bias plays an important role in specific fears and phobias. Previous studies revealed that a-priori expectancies affect attention toward neutral stimuli but not threatening stimuli. The aim of the current study was to test whether t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?
The U.S. has reached peak therapy. Counseling has become fodder for hit books, podcasts, and movies. Professional athletes, celebrities, and politicians routinely go public with their mental health struggles. And everyone is talking—correctly or not—in the language of therapy, peppering conversations with references to gaslighting, toxic people, and boundaries.
All this mainstream awareness is reflected in the data too: by the latest federal estimates, about one in eight U.S. adults now takes an antidepressant and one in five has recently received some kind of mental-health care, an increase of almost 15 mil...
Source: TIME: Health - August 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Snakes vs. guns: a systematic review of comparisons between phylogenetic and ontogenetic threats - Shapouri S, Martin LL.
The potential differences between phylogenetic threats (e.g., snakes) and ontogenetic threats (e.g., guns) can have a wide-ranging impact on a variety of theoretical and practical issues, from etiology of specific phobias to stimulus selection in psychophy... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Scared of heights? How virtual reality can help people overcome their phobias
Virtual reality-based (VR) therapy combines other forms of therapy, including talk, with technology, allowing patients to immerse themselves in their fears in a groundbreaking way. It’s been used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and other mental health diagnoses. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - June 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/Tapestry Source Type: news
One-session treatment is as effective as multi-session therapy for young people with phobias
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help children and young people overcome fears (phobias). It is routinely delivered over multiple sessions. A new study showed that one-session treatment is as effective as multi-session CBT, and is cheaper.
Phobias are intense fears of everyday objects or situations (such as dogs or having injections) that have a severe impact on children ' s ability to enjoy everyday life. Multiple session CBT is effective, but it is expensive, takes time, and appointments can be hard to get.
Researchers explored whether one-session treatment could be an alternative. It w...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One-session treatment is as effective as multi-session therapy for young people with phobias
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help children and young people overcome fears (phobias). It is routinely delivered over multiple sessions. A new study showed that one-session treatment is as effective as multi-session CBT, and is cheaper. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An ethologically based view into human fear - Coelho CM, Ara újo AAS, Suttiwan P, Zsido AN.
The quality of the defensive response to a threat depends on the elements that trigger the fear response. The current classification system of phobias does not account for this. Here, we analyze the fear-eliciting elements and discern the different types o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Hypnotherapist reveals bizarre Christmas phobias that are real
Christmas is one of the most joyous times of the year, spent surrounded by family, giving and receiving presents and eating hearty food. But for a small number of Americans and Brits, it can be miserable. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents - Kowalchuk A, Gonzalez SJ, Zoorob RJ.
Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric conditions in children and adolescents, affecting nearly 1 in 12 children and 1 in 4 adolescents. Anxiety disorders include specific phobias, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
