anxiety
A look at anxiety in its many forms and manifestations; what is the nature of this specific pattern of extreme fear and worry?
5 (More) Tips for Dating with Anxiety
Recently, a friend of mine posted an article on here called 5 Tips for Dating with Social Anxiety. (Go check that out. It's wonderful advice.) That got me to thinking about what my uber-anxious-self would recommend. You know, now that I've somehow managed to wiggle myself out of my wormhole and drag my slimy body out there in the dating world long enough to gain some major XP.
By Kristen Lynn Kreashko4 years ago in Psyche
5 Tips For Dating With Social Anxiety
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental illnesses in the United States and around the world. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), approximately 40 million adults have an anxiety disorder. Of those 40 million, around 15 million have social anxiety disorder.
By Alisan Keesee4 years ago in Psyche
Anxiety Effects on Health and How to Treat at Home to Release Anxiety
Have you at some point experienced physical and emotional distress? Like heavy breathing, High heart rate, not getting a perfect sleep, or starting to worry more. These signs are normal. These past few years have been very tough for many of us, we have experienced unexpected circumstances, which have caused the cases of anxiety to increase a lot.
By Robert Smith4 years ago in Psyche
The Trip That Changed Everything
Oh man, I screwed up. Watching from the window as my friend ran home while barefoot down the street, it suddenly dawned on me that I was in a random kitchen in the middle of the afternoon with some boys I barely knew from work. We had just taken mushrooms for the first time and I had no idea what to expect, and we weren't off to a good start.
By Jesse Bixby4 years ago in Psyche
An Open Invitation From Death
There was not one thing I feared most in life than death. Discussing death was simply an open invitation to plunge into a blackhole of a fear, a discussion I simply had no desire to partake in. The very thought of death felt like death itself: painfully numbing, perpetually dark and unimaginably empty.
By Rebecca Armstrong4 years ago in Psyche
A Small Victory
I still wonder how anyone gets through their adolescence. I had heard statistics as a young man about the suicide rate among us, and also knew about all the dangers out there that would eventually claim many in my circle of friendships and family (death, jail, drugs, disappearance, etc.)
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Psyche
Rogers: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Overcome the OCD.. First Place in Coming of Age Challenge. Top Story - September 2021.
I was 10 when it first happened. When this specific fear first appeared and drilled its way through the folds of my brain and stayed there. I was sitting on the couch while my mother worked her second job and just for a moment I looked over at the kitchen. Then, an intruder came into my head, a quick image of me plucking a knife from its block and stabbing myself in the gut.
By Lucy Richardson4 years ago in Psyche
9 Ways to Deal with Anxiety
Have you ever woken up with your heart pounding and filled with dread for no particular reason? Or maybe your palms get sweaty and you feel all weak and panicky when you have to give a presentation in school? That’s anxiety, and something most of you are probably familiar with at some point in your life. Anxiety is our body’s natural response to stress, but it can also get out of control – when our body’s threat-detection system is malfunctioning. But everyone’s response to perceived threats or danger is different, so it can hard to identify the type of anxiety.
By Caitlin McColl4 years ago in Psyche
