Category: Anxiety

Source: elit76_/AdobeStock Mental rigidity is akin to suppressing thoughts in that you allow yourself only certain sets and types of thoughts and emotions. Your emotional/mental bandwidth is limited, and it is difficult…

When Gen Z (people born between 1995-2012) arrived, technology was already in full swing, with 33 percent of Gen Zs spending more than six hours a day on their cell phones, much…

I sat with a friend at a local fast-food stop. I had a lot on my mind. We talked. The waitress asked if we were talking to her, and I said, “No.”…

I recently received a call asking if I treat “human giver syndrome.” A quick Google search of this term pulled up more than 4.5 million results! Apparently, the term was coined by…

A creative mind can create scary thoughts and art Created by the author using Midjourney In the United States, anxiety disorders affect about one-third of the population. So it’s no surprise that…

s_kawee/Envato Elements Julie’s husband, David, is fed up with her. Whenever she gets anxious about a weird health-related symptom or an ambiguous social situation, Julie constantly asks David for reassurance that everything…

Albert Einstein once said: “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” Is it OK to not know, or does “un-knowing” create anxiety and worry in humans?…

When Ori Sasson was eight years old, he participated in his first judo competition. Sitting in the back of his father’s car, he experienced crippling anxiety for the first time. He hadn’t…

In my last post, I had promised to “examine how our fundamental conceptions of ourselves—our granting to ourselves the possession of an enduring self—contribute to our anxiety.” The time has come to…

Source: Khorzhevska/Shutterstock Often, our minds paint grim images of the future. As a therapist, I see this every day. The everlasting ‘what ifs.’ ‘What if I lose my job?’ ‘What if my…