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Anxiety Podcasts
Decreasing anxiety often begins with doing some figuring. What is anxiety exactly? How’s it work for me? What helps? What doesn’t? Learning how others have addressed anxiety can help guide that exploration and have the added benefit of helping you feel not so quite alone. Toward that help, consider checking out some of these anxiety…
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When Stress Gets in the Way of Life
Jane Brody talks anxiety with Dr. Tamar Chansky in the NYT: When feeling pressured to figure out how to fix things now, “walk away for a few minutes, but promise to come back.” As with a computer that suddenly misbehaves, Dr. Chansky suggests that you “unplug and refresh,” perhaps by “taking a breathing break,” inhaling…
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Living Without Fear
From NPR: Doctors at University of Iowa have been studying a female patient they call “SM” for more than 20 years. SM has a damaged amygdala, a part of the brain. As a result, she doesn’t experience fear. Daniel Tranel explains what doctors have learned from SM and how that information might be useful.
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Therapy for Stress and Anxiety in L.A.
Connect with a therapist experienced in working with anxiety and stress. Psychotherapy can be extremely effective in reducing anxiety, stress, and worry. Offices in Los Feliz and Beverly Hills–easily reached from throughout Los Angeles. Call Anxiety Treatment L.A. at (323) 739-4322 for a free phone consultation and to book an appointment.
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5 Steps to Stresslessness
From msnbc: Anxious? 5 ways you can be stress-free. Here’s one: Take short mindfulness breaks “Even I get too busy to meditate,” says Jha. “Then I remember the Marines in the study calling my colleague while they were deployed to ask for mindfulness pointers, and I think, If they can do it in a war…
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Anxiety Headlines
One way to measure the country’s–or, at least, journalists’–mood, the daily headlines: Recession is officially over, but anxiety lingers Sealing of BP Oil Well Doesn’t Eliminate Questions and Anxiety Anxiety Over New York Islamic Center Felt In Fargo Treatment is available!
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Performance Anxiety and the Dread of Shame
Confessions of a psychoanalyst As part of my conflict about performing, there’s a deeper underlying issue for me than anxiety and that is dread of shame over exposing my anxiety. Perhaps the title, “Confessions of a Psychoanalyst” provided a clue. Shame is the primary indicator of not belonging to oneself. In shame, you belong to…
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“Techno-Anxiety”
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…
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Conservation of Stress
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…
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Doctor's Office Anxiety
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…