Meditation is a method used to clear your mind and to ease your worries and anxiety. But is meditation alone good enough to relieve anxiety? For someone who has anxiety related to the stressors of everyday living, then yes, meditation can be utilized to ease anxiety. Meditation can help clear your mind when your boss […]
Why Does Worry Make Things Worse?
The standard reply to this question is that the more you are in your head, the more likely things will go wrong. In addition, “conventional” wisdom states that because you are paying too much attention to your own thoughts, that you ignore the world around you. So people who give this advice are likely to recommend that […]
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How Do I Figure Out The Source Of My Anxiety?
I get this question frequently from people who are anxious and have panic attacks. While CBT is effective and attempts to find anxiety-provoking and maladaptive thoughts, people who are anxious can’t always find those triggering thoughts, and just have a panic attack out of the blue, so it seems. The issue with people who have […]
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Why do people struggle with ambiguity, and why does it cause anxiety?
This is a great question. Ambiguity and uncertainty causes worry and anxiety because we have an inherent need to have control over our lives. When we don’t know what the outcome will be, or when we think we have no choices, then we worry. Only when we are certain, and know that we can do […]
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How Stress Affects Cardiovascular Health
Stress is not harmful when experienced in small doses and for short durations. However, when stress becomes chronic, then this can detrimentally affect your cardiovascular health. When you have stress, the fight or flight response, the stress response, is activated. Stress (and fear) activates the amygdala, which in turn simultaneously activates the sympathetic nervous system […]
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Study Shows How OCD, ADHD, Parkinson’s And Psychosis Are Related
Picture the person with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)…he spends hours washing, and can literally be stuck in the shower or sink. Now picture the person with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)…he frequently flips from one activity to the next, just a constant stream of motion, and unable to do the same movement for very long. […]
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Living With Anxiety and a Severe Mental Illness
A warm thank you to my good friend, Jason Weiland, for writing this guest post. Hello, my name is Jason. I am not a doctor, psychiatrist, or therapist. I am just a regular person like you. I am going to attempt to write this article from my own perspective living with an anxiety disorder and a […]
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Diabetes and Anxiety: How Anxiety Can Affect Your Diabetes Management
Unfortunately the condition of diabetes often also goes hand-in-hand with a diagnosis of anxiety. The frequency of this situation has given rise to many opinions and hypotheses as to why this situation occurs however still no one is certain if the anxiety is a biologically related effect or an emotional reaction which is a direct […]
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The Global Epidemic of Anxiety and Depression in Young People
A recent study has highlighted the global epidemic of anxiety and depression in young people. In children aged 5 to 17 years old, the prevalence of anxiety globally is 3.2%, and depression worldwide is 6.2%. In young adults aged 18 to 25, the prevalence of anxiety worldwide is up to 10.4%, and depression globally is […]
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How Anxiety Evolves- The Negative Cycle of Anxiety
Feelings, such as anxiety, do not occur in isolation. They usually occur in relation to how you think, and also to the way you behave. So feelings, thoughts, and behaviors all inter-relate to one another. Now we are going to talk about the CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) approach. CBT methods seek to link events in […]
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