Why You May Be Passive-Aggressive, and Not Even Realize It
You may have called partners, family members, coworkers, or friends "passive aggressive" when in conflict, but have you ever stopped to wonder if you yourself could be exhibiting passive aggressive behaviors, too? read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrea Brandt, Ph.D. M.F.T. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Relationships Self-Help Source Type: news

How To Spot and Stop Your Own Passive-Aggressive Behavior
You may have called partners, family members, coworkers, or friends "passive aggressive" when in conflict, but have you ever stopped to wonder if you yourself could be exhibiting passive aggressive behaviors, too? read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrea Brandt, Ph.D. M.F.T. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Relationships Self-Help Source Type: news

The Cost of Continuously Checking Email
Shifting our attention from one task to another, as we do when we’re monitoring email while trying to read a report or craft a presentation, disrupts our concentration and saps our focus. Here are a few suggestions to help you stay on task.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ron Friedman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Cognition Creativity Depression Happiness Health Intelligence Neuroscience Procrastination Self-Help Stress Work Source Type: news

How To Tear Up The Good Guy Contract
In a previous post, The Good Guy Contract, I wrote about the particular challenges faced by people dominated by their need to be liked by others. In that post I recounted my own inability to say "no" and then went on to describe my discovery of the reason for it: I'd signed a Good Guy Contract:read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alex Lickerman, M.D. Tags: Anxiety disappointing people saying no Source Type: news

A Few Thoughts On How to Face suffering and Death
People do fear death, because death ends a life—a monumental fact—and is therefore different from other anxiety-provoking events.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 3, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Harriet Lerner, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Resilience Spirituality Source Type: news

Meditation: What It Is, How To Do It, And Why You Should
Once you cut through all the hype meditation techniques, like Transcendental Meditation, can be very helpful for many people. Indeed, meditating regularly can help reduce stress and worry, increase energy and mental focus, and enhance physical and mental well-being. Here's how to do it.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Clifford N. Lazarus, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Self-Help Stress deep breathing mantra meditation relaxation transcendental Worry Source Type: news

How to Stop Blaming—and Be Free and Powerful!
Blame can be defined as holding others responsible for our misfortunes. it may seem easy and convenient to blame others for our unhappiness, but in the long run we lose out. Here's how to let go of blame, and be free and powerful!read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Preston Ni, M.S.B.A. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Behavioral Economics Child Development Creativity Depression Education Environment Ethics and Morality Evolutionary Psychology Gender Happiness Health Intelligence Law and Crime Media Parenting Personali Source Type: news

7 Ways to Unchain Your Brain and Do More, Better
Hyperconnectivity and multitasking are so common today that most of us don’t realize there are other ways of working and being. But when we overdo either of them, we shortchange ourselves and limit our brain’s potential. Ponder these 7 insights.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 2, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan K. Perry, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Cognition Neuroscience Personality Work avoidng distraction brain brain science brainchains connectivity multitasking recovery time reflecting brain social media stress Susan K. Perry theo compernolle thinking Source Type: news

Don't Just Do Something....Stand There! Surviving a Crisis.
No matter what is broken, you can't fix it without the right tools. If you try, you're going to make things worse. Every time.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Teri Woods, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Self-Help Coping Strategies crisis distraction Source Type: news

Don't Just Do Something...Stand There! Surviving a Crisis.
No matter what is broken, you can't fix anything without the right tools. If you try, you're going to make things worse. Every time.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - November 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Teri Woods, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Self-Help Coping Strategies crisis distraction Source Type: news

Happiness With Life 2: Practice Perspective
Life is full of frustrations, disappointments, and adversities. But, happiness busting depression, anxiety, and bitterness do not result from these hardships, but rather from the catastrophizing we do about them. Learn in this blog how to live a life of perspective, devoid of awfulizing and horriblizing, thereby being able to find happiness even amidst adversity.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Russell Grieger, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Cognition Depression Happiness Parenting Personality Philosophy Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Stress Therapy Work adversities awful bitterness catastrophizing guilt hopelessness horrible p Source Type: news

What's Your State of Mind?
We all move in and out of different mindsets throughout the day. The challenge is to recognize when we're beginning to fall into one of these emotional ditches and getting back on the rational road. Some tips.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 31, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Taibbi, L.C.S.W. Tags: Anxiety Depression Resilience Self-Help centering fear rationality state of mind stress Source Type: news

Words to Live By
When life feels complicated and overwhelming it can be grounding to have a few words to live by to go back to. I love this by Glennon Doyle Melton: Just Show Up. Be Brave. Be Kind. Rest. Try Again. A mantra can clear anxious thoughts and replace with purpose. What words do you live by?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Patty Chang Anker Tags: Anxiety Happiness Resilience Self-Help wisdom Source Type: news

Twelve Things You Need to Know to Free Yourself From Anxiety
Stop rushing to avoid your anxieties and start acting to overcome them. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bill Knaus, Ed.D. Tags: Anxiety Procrastination Self-Help Stress 12 anxiety interventions acceptance anxiety research Anxious Thoughts avoiding awful catastrophizing challenge cognitive behavioral therapy confidence coping depression dialing down Source Type: news

Stop Traumatizing Yourself by Watching the News
You may not realize how much you are traumatized by watching the news. Turning it off may not seem like option. But when you know why your mind is so drawn to the news, you can decide whether to live in the bubble created by journalists. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 29, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Media Neuroscience Politics Source Type: news