How Stress and Anxiety Distort Reality

How Stress and Anxiety Distort Reality

While on vacation this summer on the Garden Island of Kauai, my husband and I had booked a botanical gardens tour. The rain made visibility difficult and slowed our driving. Our jeep... Read more »
Why Anxiety Feels So Real, Even When There’s No Danger

Why Anxiety Feels So Real, Even When There’s No Danger

Like how we evolved to have a stress response, we also evolved to have a more immediate response when our lives were threatened. This response is the emotional response we call fear.... Read more »
Why Self-Consciousness Outlasts Social Anxiety

Why Self-Consciousness Outlasts Social Anxiety

Key Points Social anxiety and self-consciousness appear identical on the surface but impact long-term relational health differently. A new longitudinal study reveals that the social impairments caused by social anxiety naturally diminish... Read more »
Why Health Anxiety Makes You Seek (or Avoid) the Doctor

Why Health Anxiety Makes You Seek (or Avoid) the Doctor

Do you find yourself booking a doctor’s appointment the moment you notice a small ache? Or do you do the exact opposite: avoiding the clinic for months because you are terrified of... Read more »
Treating sleep problems reduces depression, anxiety and suicidal distress, nine clinical studies find

Treating sleep problems reduces depression, anxiety and suicidal distress, nine clinical studies find

Poor sleep is common across virtually every psychological disorder, yet clinicians have long treated it as a side effect rather than a condition worth addressing directly. A new editorial in the British Journal... Read more »
Why Health Anxiety Makes You Seek (or Avoid) the Doctor

Why Health Anxiety Makes You Seek (or Avoid) the Doctor

Do you find yourself booking a doctor’s appointment the moment you notice a small ache? Or do you do the exact opposite: avoiding the clinic for months because you are terrified of... Read more »
Coping With Physical Anxiety Symptoms

Coping With Physical Anxiety Symptoms

Experiencing strong and uncomfortable physical sensations is a common part of anxiety. Your heart may pound or race, you may feel tightness in your chest, dizziness, a dry mouth, or stomach upset.... Read more »
Is Too Much Information Fueling Your Anxiety?

Is Too Much Information Fueling Your Anxiety?

Is too much information a bad thing? When it comes to anxiety, the flood of information that we can now get from technology is problematic. In fact, one study found a significant... Read more »
What Is Anxiety?

What Is Anxiety?

Anxiety is fundamentally a state of tension or disquiet inside of us that we desire to resolve, and it is most accurately defined as stress directed toward some future event or uncertainty.... Read more »
Why Health Anxiety Makes You Seek (or Avoid) the Doctor

Unwinding Your Anxiety Habit Loop

Understanding the “Stuck” Brain If you have ever felt like you are fighting a losing battle against your own mind, you are not alone. Perhaps you have tried to stop scrolling on... Read more »
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