"What is important is how you treat your mind. If you take everything it says seriously, give it too much respect, and put too much trust in your mind, that is a recipe for an anxiety disorder."
~ Michael Stein, PsyD
~ Michael Stein, PsyD
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Why Horror Films Are More Popular Than Ever
It feels good to control what will terrify you.
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"Several studies show that increasing perceived control, even if imaginary, reduces activation of brain regions that respond to threat and decreases anxiety."
"Horror films essentially offer a socially-sanctioned outlet for you to express your anxiety."
Living the HSP Life: Tips for Highly Sensitive People
Living the HSP Life: Tips for Highly Sensitive People positivelypresent.com September 22, 2019 Note: A lot of what I learned about Highly Sensitive People (aside from my own personal experience), came from Elaine N. Aron's book, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World...
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Trick your mind with your body. Your mind often gets cues from your body, and you can sometimes use this to your advantage if you're feeling overstimulated. See, if you're super overwhelmed, your body is in that fight-or-flight mode, ready to take on a challenge or get the hell out of there. Your muscles are tense; your vision is focused; your blood is pumping to the places that need it most. But if you actively make an effort to breathe calmly, to unclench your fists, to relax your shoulders, your mind might get a message that there's nothing to be afraid of. This doesn't always work, of course, but it's worth trying! You can also trick your mind into believing you're more relaxed and less alert simply by shifting your body in subtle ways. Stand with confidence, even if you don't feel it. Uncross your arms and leave them loose at your sides. If you're frequently jittery, try to stand still. If there are too many lights, close your eyes for a minute. Too many sounds? Step outside or cover your ears. These small physical things can actually help you feel a bit less overwhelmed.
Sunday Scaries: 8 Ways to Beat the Dread
You know that low-grade dread you feel around the same time each week as your weekend winds down? Welcome to the Sunday scaries. We might be stuck with Mondays, but that doesn't mean they have to suck.
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While scientific research has yet to explore the Sunday scaries, an informal 2018 survey conducted by LinkedIn suggests this feeling is very common. Among the 1,017 adults surveyed, 80 percent said they experienced Sunday night anxiety.
Sure, this knowledge won’t fix the problem, but it might help to know that plenty of other people are feeling the same way you are as the weekend winds down...
Make Mondays a special occasion. Schedule things you look forward to, like a video call with distant friends, for Monday to take the edge off some of the dread.
Accept your anxiety.
Maybe you have to work harder than other people to find a place of calm, but that’s okay. Sometimes letting go of the need to control outcomes leads to greater acceptance of your circumstances. Reflecting on what you’ve accomplished should bring on the realization that as uncomfortable as worries make you, your track record for eventually overcoming anxiety is probably close to 100 percent.
Psychotherapists using an existentialist approach believe that a patient can harness his anxiety and use it constructively. Instead of suppressing anxiety, patients are advised to use it as grounds for change. By embracing anxiety as inevitable, a person can use it to achieve his full potential in life.
Instead of regarding human experiences such as anxiety, alienation and depression as implying the presence of mental illness, existential psychotherapy sees these experiences as natural stages in a normal process of human development and maturation. In facilitating this process of development and maturation, existential psychotherapy involves a philosophical exploration of an individual's experiences stressing the individual's freedom and responsibility to facilitate a higher degree of meaning and well-being in their life.
Anxiety sensitivity and its importance in psychiatric disorders - PubMed
Anxiety sensitivity refers to the extent of beliefs that anxiety symptoms or arousal can have harmful consequences. There is growing evidence for anxiety sensitivity as a risk factor for anxiety disorders. Anxiety sensitivity is elevated in panic disorder as well as other anxiety disorders. It...
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Anxiety sensitivity refers to the extent of beliefs that anxiety symptoms or arousal can have harmful consequences. There is growing evidence for anxiety sensitivity as a risk factor for anxiety disorders. Anxiety sensitivity is elevated in panic disorder as well as other anxiety disorders. It is thought to contribute to the maintenance and severity of anxiety symptoms. Studies have shown that anxiety sensitivity more specifically predicts the future occurrence of panic attacks.
The Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI), which measures the construct of anxiety sensitivity, has three subscales, namely, the ASI-Physical subscale, ASI-Social subscale and ASI-Mental Incapacitation Concerns subscale. The dimension reflecting "fear of physical sensations" of anxiety sensitivity is the most predictive one of panic attacks and panic disorder. Research on the ASI has demonstrated that persons diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and social anxiety disorder all had ASI scores higher than normal controls.
Depression was speculated to hold a positive correlation to high anxiety sensitivity scores. The relationships between anxiety sensitivity, alcohol and substance use disorders are still unknown. There is evidence that anxiety sensitivity is related with "drinking used as a way of coping".
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Anxiety Sensitivity
Anxiety Sensitivity Psychology Today blog: Who We Are by Steven Reiss, PhD Why Relief Pitchers Don't Run Away Imagine: The Chicago Cubs are playing the California Angels for their first ever World Series championship. Each team has won three games, and the series now hangs on who wins the...
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In terms of the 16 human needs, both anxiety sensitivity and pain sensitivity fall under the need for tranquility, which predicts reactions to stress, danger, adventure, and risk.
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In The Normal Personality, Steven Reiss argues that human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own. Because of this intolerance, psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes confuse individuality with abnormality and thus overdiagnose disorders. Reiss shows how normal motives – not anxiety or traumatic childhood experiences – underlie many personality and relationship problems, such as divorce, infidelity, combativeness, workaholism, loneliness, authoritarianism, weak leadership style, perfectionism, underachievement, arrogance, extravagance, stuffed shirt, disloyalty, disorganization, and overanxiety. Calling for greater understanding and tolerance of all kinds of personalities, Reiss applies his theory of motivation to leadership, human development, relationships, and counseling.
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
~ Epictetus
~ Epictetus
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This Is What It's Like to Be an Adult With Separation Anxiety
Separation anxiety in adults causes fear or distress over being separated from loved ones. Find out the symptoms of this anxiety disorder and how to cope.
“While historically believed to be prevalent only in childhood, it’s now understood that separation anxiety causes significant difficulties for many adults.”
"All of us react to our anxiety by “partializing” our world, by restricting our consciousness within narrow bounds, to areas that we can more or less control which provide us a sense of self-confidence."
― David R. Loy, Lack and Transcendence
― David R. Loy, Lack and Transcendence
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Attitude Adjustment: Optimism Can Stave Off Stroke in Older Patients
Optimism has been correlated with faster wound healing, lower risk of coronary heart disease and other health benefits. Now new research from the University of Michigan finds that it can even hold off stroke in older patients.
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"Optimism is free!"
Can Stress Cause a Stroke? - Baton Rouge Clinic
Chronic stress can increase your risk of stroke by raising blood pressure. Learn how managing stress can reduce your risk and improve your health.
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"When you feel tension rising, take a few minutes to step back and put things in perspective."
“The universe doesn’t allow perfection.”
– Stephen Hawking
– Stephen Hawking
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Henry S. Haskins
– Henry S. Haskins
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
— William James
"I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
— Joseph Campbell
— William James
"I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
— Joseph Campbell
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"We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl."
― Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
― Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
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"A common feature across anxiety disorders is aberrant and excessive anticipatory responding under conditions of threat uncertainty...The incorporation of mindfulness traditions into CBT – namely, emphasizing awareness of moment-to-moment internal and external events, and non-judgmental acceptance (rather than avoidance) of negative emotional states – allow one to tolerate unavoidable uncertainties, and help those suffering from anxiety to understand that uncertainty about the future need not rule their lives."
~ Dan W. Grupe and Jack B. Nitschke, (2013)
~ Dan W. Grupe and Jack B. Nitschke, (2013)
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How to Worry More Mindfully (Published 2020)
It’s possible. Here’s how to cope when stressful thinking seems constant.
“Our minds will try to solve a problem, even if it’s a problem that can’t be solved by us.”
~ Lizabeth Roemer
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