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  • Anxiety Tips

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    Techniques can ease fear, anxiety (Wisconsin Rapids Tribune) A technique called “mindfulness” also helps reduce anxiety and is all about keeping our minds in the present moment. Sometimes, we spend so much time thinking about the past or worrying about the future that the present day goes by without our mind spending any time in…

  • Office Anxiety

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    Learning to Tame Your Office Anxiety (New York Times). One of the most common treatments for anxiety is confronting it, since facing such situations head-on will ultimately reduce your fear and discomfort. Because most anxiety is focused on the future, try to catch yourself having negative thoughts and think about them rationally, says Lauren Rose,…

  • Stress and Emotional Eating

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    Healthy Eating: Maintain Your Weight Despite Holiday Stress (Judith Beck).  Talking yourself out of emotional eating using CBT. “Negative emotions are uncomfortable but not dangerous. I don’t have to “fix” them. I’ve had lots of times when I’ve felt very upset, but I haven’t eaten. I’ve never exploded or lost control. The worst thing that…

  • Beat Stress in 6 Steps

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    Six steps to overcoming stress from helpguide.org.  Among the tips–Start a Stress Journal. A stress journal can help you identify the regular stressors in your life and the way you deal with them. Each time you feel stressed, keep track of it in your journal. As you keep a daily log, you will begin to…

  • Focus Shift

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    Stressed Out About a Problem? Shift Your Focus (WebMD).  Article includes a list of suggestions. Getting caught up in a problem isn’t just frustrating — it can literally stress you out. When you’re stressed out, it’s harder to think clearly. Emotional stress can send your problem-solving skills into a tailspin.

  • Everyday PTSD

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    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder doesn’t just come from the battlefield. The disorder — in which a traumatic experience leaves the patient suffering from severe anxiety for months or years after the event — is often associated with battlefield combat and natural disasters. But as Dr. Frank Ochberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University, noted in…

  • Cybertherapy

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    Cybertherapy expands. For more than a decade, a handful of therapists have been using virtual environments to help people to work through phobias, like a fear of heights or of public spaces. But now advances in artificial intelligence and computer modeling are allowing them to take on a wider array of complex social challenges and to…

  • College Anxiety

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    Anxiety disorders have a new target: college students. College students make up more than seven percent of adults suffering from anxiety, according to the National Mental Health Association…

  • Capturing Calm

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    Portrait of a holistic psychiatrist in Minnesota. Dr. Henry Emmons…doesn’t really like talking about depression and anxiety; he prefers to talk about how to bring joy and calm into people’s lives.

  • Boomer Anxiety

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    Baby boomers face anxiety with aging, an image consultant weighs in (Vancouver Sun). “I hear from my clients: ‘I look in the mirror, and that’s my mother, or father. What happened to this young person inside?’ “ Link gone. Here’s HuffPo’s collection of anxiety and aging posts.