Anxiety Help L.A.

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  • How Anxiety Affects the Body

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    AnswersTV again:

  • Anxiety Treatment: Psychotherapy

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    AnswersTV on CBT:

  • Anxiety Overview

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  • “Techno-Anxiety”

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    Net-worked youth lose sleep For 19-year-old mass communication student Anshu Sharma, it is common to wake up suddenly in the night to check if there is any new mail or to see the latest update of her other social networking partners. Sharma, according to psychiatrists, is among a growing number of Indians aged between 15…

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder In-Depth

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    Recommended reading:  a page full of GAD info and help at MayoClinic.com.

  • Conservation of Stress

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    Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) blogs about stress. My theory is that stress is a universal constant. If you have less of it at any given moment, then other people must be taking on more to balance things out. For example, let’s say you go on vacation. While you’re on the beach, your coworkers are…

  • Doctor's Office Anxiety

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    When Your Child Is Afraid of the Doctor Marcela Jones, an English professor in Washington, D.C., says her 3-year-old daughter, Amalia, starts screaming as soon as they step into a doctor’s office. Her child’s white coat-triggered misery started, Jones says, with her two-year checkup — Amalia had her routine shots and then went upstairs to…

  • Helping School Anxiety

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    Help your child overcome school anxiety.  A handful of suggestions based upon a study.  Here’s one: Stay calm/stay firm. Many kids react to their parent’s distress, which only increases their own. Anxious parents make for anxious kids. Similarly, the impulse is to give in and allow the child to stay home. As gut wrenching as…

  • The Anti-Anxiety Workbook

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    Book of the day:  The Anti-Anxiety Workbook, by Martin Antony and Peter Norton.  Why so many workbooks as books of the day?  Because good anxiety treatment involves not just sitting back and reading but actually doing. Worksheets and exercises like the ones contained in the workbooks featured here are a great place to start.  Here’s…

  • Reducing Retirement Anxiety

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    Five Ways to Cure Retirement Anxiety (article addressing practical money management, not anxiety itself). Whether it’s the latest data from EBRI showing half of Americans are at risk of running out of money in retirement, or the endless stream of surveys pointing out that a whole lot of Americans are worried about their retirement prospects and…