Category: Anxiety

Have you ever had a hard decision to make, and no matter what it was, you spent hours going over the pros and cons, wrestling with every contingency, and crowdsourcing opinions, only…

Source: Jacob Lund / Adobe Stock When you’re experiencing anxiety, it’s natural to look for the cause. Sometimes you’ll be able to point to a specific situation that’s making you anxious: an…

From their visitation in hospital wings to their presence in therapy rooms and their stay at our homes, dogs are a mainstay of our lives, and it’s not without good reason: the…

By Lizabeth Roemer, Ph.D., and Josh Bartok ***Spoilers for “Inside Out 2”! If you haven’t seen it and want to be surprised, put this aside until you do.*** Source: Courtesy of Josh…

Anxiety: How to Fight Your Own Brain

Situational, Not Pathological In the mental health field, we tend to pathologize and diagnose even commonly encountered challenges. Through the lens of human experience, however, we can recognize that some emotional and…

In the peculiar world of quantum mechanics, particles exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, and they can be described as having wave functions. Out of this strange world, the possibility of new…

Source: Unsplash/ Diana Polekhina Performance anxiety presents as unusually strong worry or fear around activities that involve accomplishment. It can be experienced in any number of areas that range from public speaking…

Anxiety is likely the most common difficulty reported by clients I meet. Whether it is anxiety due to life circumstances or a health condition, the on-edge, in-your-face experience can be highly upsetting,…

I was 8 years old when the wrecking ball of doom came a-swinging. One minute I was riding my Huffy Sweet Thunder down the road, speed lifting my pigtails, adrenaline twisting the…