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H1N1 (Swine Flu): Healthy Paranoia, Panic or Propaganda?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Reports about the Swine Flu (H1N1 Flu) are constantly on TV, online in the newspapers...we can't escape the news if not the germs. If you feel overwhelmed and confused about the level of danger, you probably are not alone. It is difficult to distinguish the real deal from the hype: "To vaccinate or not to vaccinate," "Flu deaths on the rise," etc. Even the medical community seems somewhat unsure as to the best strategies for handling the threat of the pandemic. Many people are starting to act paranoid. Just today, I saw a face mask on the floor in the subway. Perhaps it's a healthy paranoia (pun intended) to stay away from...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Allison Conner, Psy.D. Tags: Anxiety arms and legs blood stream face mask flu deaths germs heart rate hyperventilating intense anxiety medical community opportunistic infections pandemic Panic Attack panic attacks pounding heart rational person real de Source Type: consumer

The Uncertainty ParadoxEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I know a secret--a deeply profound, life-changing secret--one learned through the school of hard knocks in one of its most grueling courses. It is nothing short of the very key to living with uncertainty, this secret; and because you, dear bloggie (is that what one calls a reader of a blog?), have been so supportive of this outreach project, I will share it with you, free of charge and with no obligation. (You are very welcome.) To prepare yourself for the sage, paradoxical wisdom I am about to impart, I suggest you close your eyes and imagine a dramatic drum roll. Picture, if it helps, the clouds in the sky parting above ...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeff Bell Tags: Anxiety best efforts blog chipmunks clouds in the sky compulsion contrary counterintuitive crickets deep breath doubt drum roll efficacy extremes footnotes living with uncertainty obligation obsession ocd outreach pro Source Type: consumer

Mindfulness Psychotherapy for Anxiety & DepressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mindfulness as taught in Mindfulness Psychotherapy and Mindfulness Meditation Therapy, is a particular awareness skill that teaches us to be aware of what is happening while it is happening. Through diligent practice, we begin to recognize reactions as they arise form moment to moment throughout the day. We learn to respond to each reaction with the simple formula: STOP, LOOK and LISTEN. When a reaction arises we simply greet it with: "No. Not now. I choose not to go down that path." In the very act of recognition of a reaction, we are given a brief moment of choice about whether we want to react or not. The habit to...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Strong, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Depression anxiety depression duration emotion experiences freedom habit heart inner space meditation therapy mindful awareness mindful listening mindfulness practice moment to moment psychotherapy PTSD relationsh Source Type: consumer

The Dark Side of SiblingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Most parents who introduce their first born to a new brother or sister are well aware of, if not totally versed in, the difficulties that may arise. Parents read one or more of the books categorized as "how to introduce your child to a new sibling." They talk to their child and to other parents to avoid initial and future sibling backlash. Apparently much of this good intention and preparation goes unheeded. Siblings abuse each other: As many as 74 percent push or shove their brothers and sisters according to Murray Straus, Ph.D., author of Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family. Dr. Straus also found that 42...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Newman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Child Development Evolutionary Psychology Gender Happiness Media Parenting Personality Relationships Resilience Self-Help Stress aggression aggressor allison conn caffaro backlash brothers and Source Type: consumer

Does God Have a Place in Psychiatric Treatment Plans?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In 1992, my father drove (more like sped) me to the emergency of Lion's Gate Hospital. I was floridly psychotic. I ran from one end of the parkade to the other, shouting ‘I am one with God'. Neither of us knew what was happening. My dad describes it as one of the most terrifying experiences of his life, for me one of the most devastating yet liberating. My diagnosis: rapid-cycling, mixed stated bipolar disorder with mild temporal lobe epilepsy and generalized anxiety disorder. Yeah, say that five times fast! Over the next five years I had four further psychotic episodes, innumerable manias and suicidal depressions and fi...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Victoria Maxwell Tags: Anxiety bipolar disorder bucket of fish case worker discharge plan generalized anxiety disorder God health care providers health care team images of god intense focus manic depression mental illness non-compliance orderlies p Source Type: consumer

Your Future in an EssayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is the time of year, in my practice, where high school seniors and their parents are feeling the pressure of the upcoming deadlines for college admission applications. The college application can become a battleground between parent and child. From the beginning of July through mid November tension builds, doors slam, and anxiety heightens. Considering how competitive college admissions are and the high cost of college tuition, it is understandable that families would find this time very stressful.Having experienced this process with my own children, I can appreciate how anxiety-provoking this can be for fam...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wanda Behrens-Horrell, L.C.S.W., NCPsyA Tags: Anxiety application process battleground co author college admission applications college admissions college applicant College application college essay college tuition creativity destiny doors slam extracurricular activities h Source Type: consumer

Myths and Misconceptions of Self-Injury: Part IIEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Self-Injury Hurts! When it comes to pain, I am a wimp. If I accidentally hit my thumb with a hammer I'm ready to call an ambulance. Like many, I had a hard time understanding how those who self-injure report experiencing little or no pain when hurting themselves. It could be that there's a huge conspiracy among self-injurers to state that the act of hurting themselves is not painful in an attempt to recruit more self-injurers. But it seems more likely that there are psychological and physiological processes that help to mask the pain associated with the physical injury. Self-injury is cyclic in nature with factors precedin...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tracy Alderman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety ambulance conspiracy dissociation distinct personalities endorphins freeway ramp hammer hard time morphine neurotransmitters physiological processes physiological reaction psychological phenomenon runners self injurer Source Type: consumer

Your Brain on FacebookEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
All learning starts with the ability to focus and heed a teacher’s command to “pay attention.” Yet kids, like many of us, are showing a classroom attention span that is increasingly like their attention span on Facebook: Many seem to be exquisitely distractible and unable to focus on Mrs. Wilson for longer than it would take them to write a “status update.” This problem is also suggested by the tremendous increase in the number of Ritalin prescriptions written over the last decade. Children (and we) seem less attentive than ever, and studies are questioning what role the virtual lifestyle may be playing in t...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elias Aboujaoude, M.D. Tags: Anxiety Child Development Cognition Media Memory Neuroscience Psychiatry Social Life academic performance ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity attention deficit hyperactivity disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder adhd Source Type: consumer

Afraid of Being Rejected?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One of the central problems for you if you are anxious is your fear of making a mistake and your fear of being rejected. I don't know about you, but I sure have a long history of rejection---only because, I think, I have constantly been trying to be productive. When I was single I was rejected by girlfriends-but accepted by some. I have had book proposals and articles rejected. I view rejection as part of the cost of playing the game. You won't be able to win unless you can tolerate losing some.If you wonder if other people have made mistakes, here is a list of authors and books that have been rejected by publishers when f...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety animal farm by george orwell book animal farm book proposals charles duell diary of anne frank failure fear fear of rejection hobbitt isaac bashevis singer jack kerouac jorge luis borges king oscar marcel proust Nobel Source Type: consumer

Lesbian Fantasy, ReconsideredEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In reviewing the feedback to my "Lesbian Fantasy, Disguised" post (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reel-therapy/200910/lesbian-f...), I concluded that the constructive criticism offered by some of the readers warranted a response.So, here it is. I apologize for my misleading argument about "Whip It" and I greatly appreciate the feedback. It is my hope that this experience will make me a better writer whom exerts more effort in understanding his audience and crafting a well-founded argument. Having incorporated the majority of the feedback and reflected on what I've written, I believe my post was so unclear and so misdi...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Clyman Tags: Anxiety Creativity Happiness Media admiration alienation anger bliss clarification confusion constructive criticism deeper meaning film film history honest intention lesbian fantasy lgb community movie review movies p Source Type: consumer

How I Met Your Mother: Curing NarcissismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Having become an annual shoe-in for an Emmy nomination, the television show "How I Met Your Mother" has entered its fifth season with a lot of steam. The clearest explanation for this is Barney, a side character who is central to the show's popularity. In the past few weeks an interesting shift has occurred in his character, and it offers up what President Obama calls "a teachable moment." Barney spends most of his time entertaining us with his boundless energy and effortless charm, and what is equally obvious but less addressed in the show is the fact that his admirable but exhausting proclivity to entertain stems from hi...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Clyman Tags: Anxiety Creativity Media Personality Relationships adult life backlash barney boundless energy chronic mental illness emmy nomination fifth season friend robin gratification how i met your mother intimacy knee jerks narci Source Type: consumer

What are the suicide warning signs to remember?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Several years ago, the American Association of Suicidology developed a mnemonic to aid in remembering the warning signs for suicide. It's quite a list, so a quick way of recalling the most important warning signs can be very beneficial. The mnemonic developed, IS PATH WARM? appears below, along with further detail about each warning sign.I IdeationS Substance AbuseP PurposelessnessA AnxietyT TrappedH HopelessnessW WithdrawalA AngerR RecklessnessM Mood changesThe warning signs of acute risk are related to suicide ideation and require immediate action:-Threatening to hurt or kill himself or herself, or talking of wanting to ...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elana Premack Sandler, L.C.S.W., M.P.H. Tags: Anxiety Depression Memory agitation american association of suicidology death dying friends family imminent risk Prevalence risk factors risky activities sense of purpose sleep suicide suicide ideation suicide prevention un Source Type: consumer

Normal brains create most of our psychological problemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Freud was a physician and physicians treat maladies-pathologies-things that occur when our bodies, or in this case our minds, malfunction. Although, a growing body of research suggests that brains, doing exactly what they were designed to do, can create significant psychological problems, we still hang on to the questionable assumption that if we are having psychological problems it means that our brain must be somehow misfiring.In my last blog, I described how a certain type of memory-memories mediated by the amygdala region of the brain, called emotion memories-- seem to play a central role in many common psychological d...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - September 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Timothy B. Stokes, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Depression Evolutionary Psychology Neuroscience amygdala ancestor assumption assumptions brain research brains companions conscious awareness depression.neuroscience emotion emotional reaction experience fear fear a Source Type: consumer

The Positive Psychology of Julia ChildEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Julie and Julia is a movie about a high functioning woman, Julie, who is beginning to struggle with life. Although she is interpersonally content, self-sufficient and relatively upbeat, she is inching toward depression and despair. Neither her occupation nor most of her friendships are fulfilling. A slow but steady spiral seems inevitable. If the status quo remains the status quo then I would bet good money that there would be mounting frustration and sadness that would spill over and begin to strain her marriage and her general mood. Depression. Maybe a hospitalization or lost job. Then, who knows? Not a pretty picture.Th...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - September 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Clyman Tags: Anxiety Creativity Depression Happiness Media Personality childhood traumas clinical psychology cookbook despair fate friendships frustration game plan hospitalization julia child mental health mental illness negativity Source Type: consumer

FELIX: My Role Model for Mindful LivingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Felix my cat was my little Buddhist, my role model for mindful living. He demonstrated a healthy fight-or-flight response when threatened, but he only felt fear when fear was due. He became anxious and agitated when forced into a carrying cage, because he knew very well it meant a car ride to the vet. But he didn't let fear, worry and rumination spoil an otherwise perfectly good day.By contrast, I recall my own human experience anticipating my first allergy shot as a child. For a good week before the actual appointment, I freaked myself out with fearful imaginings, all of them having to do with long needles and terrible pa...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Spirituality abstract thinking Anxious Thoughts aphorism body parts brave man buddhist car ride cats and mindful living coward dinner guests downside felix flight response human experience imaginings n Source Type: consumer

"Suzanne takes you down..."Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
No, not that Suzanne; not Leonard Cohen's lady by the river whose perfect body he touched with his mind. My Suzanne is a 96-year-old woman I visit in a nursing home once a week, whose body is somewhat less than perfect: she is blind, wheelchair-bound due to crippling arthritis, and sharp as a tack. My visits with her began as part of a yearlong training I participated in to become an instructor of Gabrielle Roth's 5 RhythmsTM movement practice. We were asked to contribute 48 hours of community service during the course of our training. But it was obviously a trick; I wasn't about to tell Suzanne at t...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - August 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eliezer Sobel Tags: Aging Anxiety Depression Happiness Health Memory Resilience Spirituality aspirin bare minimum bitter lemons books on tape crippling arthritis dementia dementia patient friend suzanne Gabrielle Roth lawrence durrell leon Source Type: consumer

Finally - Over The Counter Psychotherapy!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What is Positive Psychology?Positive Psychology has been around for more than a decade now, and by now it is a well established and a mature stream in psychology with its own publications, methodologies, conferences, and well-known experts. Over the past year I have been involved in Positive Psychology research and my company's flagship product is based on the work of Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leading positive psychologist. Yet, I am still surprised each and time again to see that the term Positive Psychology means different things to different people. I asked my twitter friends what they think and they said:- Positive psych is...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - August 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ran Zilca Tags: Addiction Anxiety Depression Happiness Psych Careers Resilience Self-Help Therapy blowing in the wind blue skies classic advertising classic auto cues dimmer switch dumb mistake fabulous face hot body illumination long Source Type: consumer

More on Emotional Intelligence and BombsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article notes the turning-of-the-tide. Yes, emotions are still viewed as the perpetrators of reckless, rebellious behavior (as James was accused of in "The Hurt Locker") but now emotions are also being seen as the key elements of the most sensitive detection equipment available, the human mind. "We understand emotions as practical action programs that work to solve problems, often before we're conscious of it. These processes are at work continually, in pilots, leaders of expeditions, parents, all of us," says Dr. Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California....
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - July 31, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Clyman Tags: Anxiety Depression Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Media Resilience Stress Therapy body language bomb detection confluence conscious mind emotional intelligence emotional processes empathy film film history gut instinct Source Type: consumer

Anxiety SensitivityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 seventh and final game. The Cubs are on the field with the score tied 3-3 with two outs and bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. The count to the batter is 3 balls and 2 strikes. If the next pitch is a ball, the Cubs will lose the game and the World Series; if it is a strike, they will get to play an extra inning. The manager signals to the bullpen to send in a relief pitcher to the throw what he hopes will be the final pitch of the inning. M...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - July 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Reiss, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety albert bandura anxiety sensitivity bullpen california angels chicago cubs chicagoans everyday basis final game last pitch necessary skills professional ball players psychologists relief pitcher relief pitchers scorn Source Type: consumer

Overcoming Your Obsessive Compulsive DisorderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you are like millions of people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) you know how your OCD has created problems for you. You feel persecuted by your thoughts about making mistakes, contamination, harm, or losing control. Your OCD prevents you from living freely, including using public rest rooms, shaking hands, feeling comfortable and satisfied with your work, and having the feelings, thoughts and images that the rest of us don't worry about. You are constantly battling yourself. And you feel you are losing the battle.What can you do?In my previous blog How do Obsessive Compulsive People Think? I describe eleven cha...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - July 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety avoidance blogs compulsions contamination Fears feelings fusion hips losing control losing the battle negative evaluation obsessions Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ocd odd thoughts public rest rooms Robert Leahy Source Type: consumer

Suffering, Seeking & SanityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's 1976, and I'm speaking to Karen, my partner at the time, bemoaning my lack of commitment to anything. All of my close friends over the years, up to and including my wife, Shari, will attest to the fact that I am a habitual bemoaner. (Be·moan: "To express grief or disappointment about something." In Yiddish, it is translated to "kvetch," which adds the elements of whining and complaining. It could be argued that, depending on my audience, I am both a bemoaner and a kvetcher.)In any event, those with the supernatural ability to see auras and animated cartoon icons appear in real life would have seen a...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - June 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eliezer Sobel Tags: Anxiety Depression Happiness Philosophy Psychiatry Self-Help Spirituality Therapy alternative therapies ancient religions animated cartoon approaches to psychology bipolar Buddhism consistent commitment endless work enlight Source Type: consumer

Those Damn Unwanted Thoughts!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Have you ever felt plagued by thoughts and images that you just couldn't stand? Perhaps it's the nagging thought, "I made a mistake" or "I think I have cancer" or "I'm going to lose control". These thoughts seem to intrude on your mind and you try to block them out. You think about your thought and you say (to yourself) something like the following: I'm having that thought again.What's wrong with me that I'm thinking that?It must mean something-about me.I have to do something--- make sure it doesn't become a realityI have to stop having that thought.You have begun noticing that thought and you are interpreting it over...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - June 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety anxiety disorders cancer cognitive therapy contamination crazy thoughts god welcome images impropriety intrusive thoughts losing control mistake nbsp Panic Attack people Robert Leahy rumination sexual perversion Source Type: consumer

The Line between Victims and AbusersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Victim identity is focus on damages suffered at the hands of other people. The desire to be identified as a victim creates a sense of entitlement and a motive to devalue anyone who does not offer special recognition and validation of victim status or compensation for it.In our Age of Entitlement, it is often difficult for friends and therapists to detect abuse in intimate relationships and to discern who the primary abuser is. This is especially hard in cases of emotional abuse, with no objective evidence like police reports or medical records. The following characteristics of primary abusers and victims are not fool-proof...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Stosny Tags: Anxiety Gender Happiness Health Self-Help Therapy abuse victims abusive behavior anger anger management attribute clinical evidence clinical experience compassion dramatic change emotional abuse emotional reactivity fool Source Type: consumer

Diagnosis: Do the Rightest ThingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The burden of being an angel. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

If we successfully avoid a swine flu pandemic, what will happen next time?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Unless you have already locked yourself into a sealed container with lots of food and water and no communications with the outside world (in which case you're not reading this post), you can't avoid news about the potential for a swine flu (H1N1) pandemic. The media is reporting a stream of government and expert recommendations including washing hands frequently, avoiding unnecessary travel, and staying home if you are feeling sick.So far, there is some reason to be cautiously optimistic that we may not see a huge outbreak of this flu. Many school systems are taking significant precautions to keep large g...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Art Markman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics better sense epidemic expert recommendations field trips flu flu strain geometric progressions large groups mexico city outbreak pandemic person to person prevention scare staying home subtle Source Type: consumer

Emotions in the Real WorldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you feel misunderstood by other people, and your individual therapy is failing on top of it, the likely reason is that you and your therapist are emphasizing your feelings and failing to see your emotions as social phenomena. It is unlikely that you or your individual therapist will understand your emotions in a real-world context just by examining your feelings or their presumed significance to your childhood.The truth is, emotions tend to feel very different on the inside then they look on the outside. Resentment and the many forms of anger are primary examples. On the inside you feel like a victim or at least treated...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - April 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Stosny Tags: Anxiety Health Relationships Self-Help Social Life Work anger appearance automatic responses contagion emotional responses emotional states emotions feelings glue inhibition interaction legitimate complaints marriage Source Type: consumer

Quit LyingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lying to avoid confrontation. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - April 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Law and Order: Marked for MayhemEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How to avoid being a victim of crime. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - April 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Guinea Pig NationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Why some people happily suffer for science. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - April 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

The Pursuit of HappinessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The surest ways to find well-being. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - April 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Spring into MindfulnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Seasonal changes can facilitate mindfulness. As the weather changes, so does our perspective. Springtime, in particular, is a wonderful time to become more aware of the growth and life that surrounds us.Yesterday, on my way to work, I paused by a cafe in order to tie my shoe. As people rushed around, I looked up at the ragged tree next to me. Initially, I dismissed it as a dirty mess of barren branches, seemingly devoid of life. (Not very mindful, huh?) Looking more closely, I noticed many small bumps on the branches, especially at the tips. These "bumps" actually were tightly curled, greenish-brown buds. A sign of spring!...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - March 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety barren branches blades of grass buds bushes cold days days of winter dirty mess economic reality freshness hedges mindfulness seasonal changes shoelace sidewalk sign of spring springtime stillness stupor tendr Source Type: consumer

Shaken Babies and the Struggle for the SoulEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The father of Camryn Wilson, the first baby born in Summit County, Ohio in 2008, has been sentenced for shaking the baby to death.Sentenced to a term of 15 years to life, the 29 year-old man will probably serve 20 years in prison. To his credit, he offered no excuses for his crime. Stressed from an argument with the mother, he couldn't tolerate the baby's incessant crying. He insisted on a guilty plea, even though the autopsy showed evidence of previous abuse that might have implicated others and clouded prosecutorial certainty, as his lawyer, no doubt advocated. Hopefully, the young man is on a path to recovering his soul...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - March 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Stosny Tags: Anxiety Law and Crime Parenting Relationships anger autopsy camryn early adjudication guilty plea lawyer no doubt old man soul summit county ohio symbolism young man Source Type: consumer

Love and the Movies in Your Head II: From Script to ActionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The first part of this post described how we make movies in our heads starring the people we love and how our movie scenes are destined to become more negative over time, irrespective of actual behavior. This post describes how our internal movies control the way we regard loved ones and the way they regard us.Guy FlicksIf the role he writes for his partner in his internal movies is sympathetic and supportive, he will expose his deepest vulnerabilities to her, which he must do if he wants more intimacy. He will understand if she is too busy or distracted to be focused on sympathy whenever he seeks it. If he casts her as ac...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - March 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Stosny Tags: Anxiety Happiness Relationships Self-Help Social Life Therapy affection big picture character identification chick flicks closeness creative person daily routine disclosures emotional states expectation gestures impulses Source Type: consumer

Harvard HorrorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Why dumping people puts you in the dumps. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - March 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Rihanna, Chris, and the Pendulum of PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The reuniting of Rihanna and Chris Brown has resurrected the oldest of questions about abuse victims: "Why do they stay?" It has also ignited the usual simple-minded answers: Due to their childhoods or low self-value, "Some people want to be abused," and, "She's addicted to him." "Why do they stay?" isn't even the right question. Like Rihanna, victims of abuse hardly ever stay. They leave and then come back, over and over. Researchers call it the "rubber band" or "elastic" effect. There are often social and financial reasons and, in the case of severe battering, very real life threats by the criminal abuser: "If I can't ha...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - March 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steven Stosny Tags: Anxiety Happiness Health Relationships Self-Help Social Life Therapy abuse abuse victims abusive relationships aversions big cats celebrated case compassion death by starvation early humans emotional bonds emotional inves Source Type: consumer

Grateful for TodayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Stop fretting about the past or the future. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - February 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Body of Evidence: Top of the HeapEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Social status reveals a wealth about health. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Why You Think You'll Never Stack UpEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The pursuit of prestige has an upside. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

How to Get Over Status AnxietyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Envy can overpower us if we let it. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 28, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Putting Stock in Weather ReportsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Weather as an indicator of mood and behavior. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - December 19, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Fretting Over DecisionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Why small decisions paralyze us. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - December 12, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

The Science of MeditationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Squashing anxiety in a tranquil state. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - December 10, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Mind Your Body: Lost in ThoughtEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Relax your mental muscle to avoid choking. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 18, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

The Competitive EdgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The color red and performing last in the rink. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 14, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Treating Anxious Kids -- Part IEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Big news this past week on medication and psychotherapy. In its on-line, advance publication mode, the New England Journal of Medicine published a multi-center study of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and Zoloft, alone and in combination, for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Administered singly, each intervention worked. Given together, the antidepressant and brief (14 one-hour sessions) therapy brought very substantial improvement to 80 per cent of patients over an interval of 12 weeks.The last major study to show improvement at these rates was a trial of CBT and Serzone for chronic depression, published in...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 3, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter D. Kramer Tags: Anxiety adolescent advance publication anxiety disorders anxiety disorders in children anxiety disorders in children and adolescents CBT chronic depression combined group england journal of medicine file drawer intractability line Source Type: consumer

Field Work: Goal PursuitEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When soccer plays on psychology's turf. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 22, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

How to Handle a Financial Panic AttackEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Like many of you I have been watching the financial news with great interest. But I have also found that my knowledge of Cognitive Therapy has been immensely helpful. It may be that our anxieties right now are being fed by selective biases in our thinking---biases shared by millions of us who are watching the news. How can we be more rational? How can we cure our financial panic attack? Here are some cognitive distortions that I believe are driving financial anxieties:1. Catastrophic ThinkingIt's almost as if five minutes can't go by watching the news without hearing catastrophic statements- such as "catastrophe"...
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 3, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety 1930s 21 st century anxieties biases catastrophic thinking djia fdic finance financial catastrophe financial news financial panic Financial Worry meltdown Panic Attack per capita income stock portfolio two thought Source Type: consumer

Hypergraphia: A River of WordsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Is hypergraphia—the need to write—a gift or a curse? (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 2, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

Mind Your Body: Quit While You're BehindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The benefits of Plan B. (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - August 2, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer

When Worry Takes OverEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How do you know if you're too anxious? (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - June 16, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety Source Type: consumer