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  • CBT v. Anxiety

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    The Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Treatment in Combating Multiple Anxiety Disorders Results showed that CALM techniques were significantly more effective than usual care in reducing global anxiety symptoms.  Patients undergoing CALM treatment had significantly reduced scores on the Brief Symptom Inventory. (Beck Institute Blog)

  • L.A. a “Most Stressful” City

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    Detroit, Los Angeles and Cleveland are the most stressful cities in America, according to a new study. Portfolio.com, a national business and news website for small business executives, looked at unemployment rates, personal finance data, environmental, health and living standards and crime rates to compile the ranking of 50 cities. (Reuters)

  • Anxiety Treatment Options

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    Anxiety Treatments – What Will Work For You? Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is having great results. With this you are helped to become more self aware, learning what is happening to you whenever you experience anxiety. Through this self awareness, you will learn new behaviours, new ways of reacting to stress and pressure.. This works well…

  • Friends of Panic Disorder

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    What NOT to Say to Someone With Panic Disorder You say: “Why can’t you just relax?” We want to say: “It’s a bit more complicated than you think!” During a panic attack, the following physiological changes can occur: * increased heart rate * adrenaline rushes * shortness of breath * lightheadedness * heart palpitations * nausea…

  • Insomnia Workbooks

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    New at the AnxietyLA Bookstore, a collection of insomnia books and workbooks, including Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep, briefly reviewed here by Beth Cholette, PhD.  Excerpt: [The authors] start by reviewing sleep-incompatible behaviors–for example, staying in bed when you can’t sleep–and then describing specific techniques to counteract these problematic patterns.  They continue to…

  • Exposure Therapy (for Childbirth)

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    Early visit to maternity ward might lessen new parent anxiety “A tour definitely helps decrease the anxiety factor because we talk them through exactly where they will come and how the process will go so it’s not a mystery,” said Tammy Rohm, a registered nurse at the Women’s Center at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center.  The…

  • Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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    From illumistream:

  • What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

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  • The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook

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    Book of the day:  The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook, by Martin Anthony and Richard Swanson.  The first 53 pages are up at Google Books.  Here’s the pitch from the publisher, via Amazon: There’s nothing wrong with being shy. But if social anxiety keeps you from forming relationships with others, advancing in your education or your…

  • Stress and Weight

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    Chronic Social Stress Linked to Obesity Science has long documented that during extreme stress, such as in the experience of war or traumatic grief, victims tend to decrease their food intake, resulting in lower body weight. Recent studies, however, suggest that everyday social stress—tests, public speaking, job and relationship pressures—may have the opposite effect, resulting…