anxiety
A look at anxiety in its many forms and manifestations; what is the nature of this specific pattern of extreme fear and worry?
4 Tips for Reducing Anxiety
Even without a formal diagnosis, anxiety is one of the most common issues adults worldwide face each day. In fact, it is so prevalent that approximately 70% of adults in the United States self-reported a feeling of stress or anxiety daily.
By Jessica Miller5 years ago in Psyche
anxiety
Anxiety. Such a small and seemingly harmless word. To the people who are lucky enough not to have it, congrats. You will never know the struggle that we face while trying to complete the smallest tasks. The struggle that we face when we use the curling iron and then have to leave the house. After checking for the third time that you did in fact unplug it when you already knew that you did, you can breathe a little easier. To the people lucky enough not to have it, congrats. You will never know what its like to have to kiss your dog the same about of times each time you leave them for fear that something may happen to them if you don't. Or how you have to send your mom the exact same text message before bed for fear that if you don't something may happen to her. Checking the door locks before bed is fun right? Y'all know what I'm talking about. Or maybe you don't if you don't have anxiety.
By Nikki Vidal5 years ago in Psyche
Anxiety Is in Your Body, Not Your Mind
Let's go back to 60,000 years. Assume you're a Neanderthal out for a walk in the countryside. Suddenly, you hear a tiger in the surrounding bushes. Your entire body begins to respond in a nanosecond. Your heart beats faster, your breathing becomes shallower, your eyes dilate, and your body begins to produce adrenaline.
By Mind & Relationships5 years ago in Psyche
The Biggest Ride
This was it. The most daring thing she had ever done. She was incredibly nervous, her stomach filled with butterflies, her hands unable to stop fidgeting, and her thoughts and heart racing. She was with two of her best friends, one of whom was celebrating her birthday. Just minutes earlier, her friends had dared her to go on a huge ride, something she had always refused to do. Ever since her childhood, she always looked on at this long, tall wooden structure whenever she came here and wondered how anyone could go on it without feeling anything other than fear and worry. She asked her friends to reconsider, but in response, they joked they would call her cowardly if she didn’t. She finally gave in, buying her ticket and waiting in the long line, anxiously waiting for this horrifying situation to be over.
By Jamie Lammers5 years ago in Psyche
Regretting Regretting. Top Story - April 2021.
My biggest regret is spending so much time regretting. Oh sure I can list oh so many cringeworthy moments. Mishaps with bodily functions. Bra straps showing. Green food in teeth. Colossal errors in people’s names, especially when in front of fifty people I’ve mixed up Mr. Chiang with Mr. Lee, or Ms. Gomez with Ms. Fuentes. All the times I didn’t listen – I thought he was joking when he said the price tag was showing on my hat that I went on to wear for months. All the times I was unintentionally cruel. Or cruel out of my own indecisiveness. All the times I was careless or lazy – why did I wreck that guy’s performance by not learning the words and harmony to the song we were singing together? All the times I laughed too loud and kept repeating the same lame remark. Or did I? Was I just carefree and fun? Oh, the rumination.
By Ida Verity5 years ago in Psyche
Perfectly Content
There it is. There on the horizon, so close yet so far, lies the ship on the still waters. Its sail a striking white against the clear blue of the sky, its hull of lustrous wood at peace on the contrasting deep blue of the ocean. A perfect vessel aligned in the differing shades of blue, a visible boundary of Sea and Sky, a marker, a monument that bridges the gap between two great forces where never the twain shall meet.
By Scarlett Brooks5 years ago in Psyche
