Category: Articles
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Workplace Anxiety
Forbes: Do You Suffer From Workplace Anxiety? Try to embrace the challenges as they come. If you dread asking a question in a meeting, just do it to know how it feels. Be kind to yourself by imagining a nurturing parent patting you on the back and offering constructive feedback. Think: I’m proud of you…
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Choosing Anxiety?
Why Some People Choose Anxiety (Newsweek): Considering that anxiety makes your palms sweat, your heart race, your stomach turn somersaults, and your brain seize up like a car with a busted transmission, it’s no wonder people reach for the Xanax to vanquish it. But in a surprise, researchers who study emotion regulation—how we cope, or…
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Freshmen Stress
Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen (NYT): The emotional health of college freshmen — who feel buffeted by the recession and stressed by the pressures of high school — has declined to the lowest level since an annual survey of incoming students started collecting data 25 years ago.
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Mindfulness Practice
Can mindfulness transform feelings? — a how-to from Psych Central. First three steps: Sit quietly and bring your attention towards your feelings. Notice the emotion that you’re stuck in and name it. For example, you might say to yourself I’m feeling angry or enraged or afraid. Don’t try to push your emotion away. Welcome your emotion. …
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Help with Panic Attacks
How to Halt and Minimize Panic Attacks (PsychCentral). Among the tips: Stimulate your mind. Engage in activities that stimulate your brain and keep you busy, such as getting outside, exercising or taking a shower. In fact, a recent study analyzing 40 randomized clinical trials of 3,000 people with various medical conditions found that people who exercised…
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College Depression, College Anxiety
Depression On The Rise In College Students (NPR). Anxiety too: Researchers say severe mental illness is more common among college students than it was a decade ago, with most young people seeking treatment for depression and anxiety. A study presented at the American Psychological Association found that the number of students on psychiatric medicines increased more…
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Nine Ways to Ward Off Your Worries
A post a Psych Central. Here’s a good one (number four): Flood a piece of paper with your worries. When your brain is bursting with worries, write them down. Release all those cooped-up worries from the corners of your mind, and let the paper deal with them. By writing down your worries, you feel as…
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Mindfulness Therapy
Mindfulness therapy is here to stay, reports the L.A. Times. Mindfulness therapy encourages patients to focus on their breathing and their body, to notice but not judge their thoughts and to generally live in the moment. It may sound a bit squishy and New Agey to some, but Hofmann and other experts say mindfulness has…
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For Boredom
Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of Understimulation (WSJ). “Brace yourself for five piping-hot minutes of inertia,” said William Barrett. Then he began reciting the names of every single one of 415 colors listed in a paint catalog: damson dream, dauphin, dayroom yellow, dead salmon…and on and on and on. Mr. Barrett’s talk was titled, “Like…
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On Insomnia
An essay by Elizabeth Gumport at This Recording. It is impossible to describe insomnia to people who are sound sleepers. These are the people who trust that getting in bed will be followed by falling asleep, as surely as night follows day; these are the fearless people. Sleepless people are a very different breed…