Category: Anxiety

You have a hard time breathing Can’t seem to catch your breath You feel the icy grip on your heart and chest Your heart is pounding You have knots in your stomach…

Anxiety and panic, while similar to one another, are not one and the same, though they are often spoken of interchangeably. It is important to understand the difference between the two before…

I can still vividly recall the day I facilitated a group of nine patients in an intensive outpatient eating disorder clinic. They were mostly adolescent girls and young women diagnosed with anorexia…

Anxiety is one of the most common challenges for humans. Anxiety and worry have some evolutionary value, helping us to be attentive to what might or could happen if we don’t continue…

Anxiety is increasingly prevalent in young children, with about 9.4 percent of children having an anxiety diagnosis, according to the CDC. For young children, symptoms of anxiety might look like an increase…

Daymares are waking catastrophic fantasies. Source: DALL-E You might feel like an imposter. You think something terrible is going to happen… You think you left your door unlocked as you try to…

HTGanzo/Adobe Stock The term trigger warning was coined in the late 1990s on feminist Internet message boards, where it cautioned readers about graphic depictions of crimes, typically rape. The idea was to…

Source: Sergey Sokolov / Unsplash Gen Z are my people. I get annoyed when older generations write them off by making fun of their slang. I said things like “Gag me with…

Do you ever wish you could snap your fingers and never have to feel anxiety, sadness, or anger ever again? Would you be surprised to know that these unpleasant emotions have a…

The thought of initiating a big life change is anxiety-provoking. By making a major change, you are not only altering the direction you’re going in but also paving a new road for…