Does Fear Keep Us Safe?
Xenophobia is not just a phobia. It has grown to become a religion subscribed to by about half of us. To determine what makes us safe, we need to separate what makes sense from what is sheer phobia. (Photo of Roberts Field, Liberia, by Patrick Smith)read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Captain Tom Bunn, L.C.S.W. Tags: Anxiety Cognition Ethics and Morality Neuroscience ebola fear flying xenophobia Source Type: news
Defensiveness Can Be Good For Your Mental Health
Defensiveness is just ego? Nope. Defensiveness has its place and serves a purpose, keeping you focused on your work and not your doubts. The question isn't whether to be defensive but in which situations. It has its place and we should focus on where to place it, and where to replace it with receptivity.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Cognition Creativity Ethics and Morality Intelligence Personality Procrastination Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Spirituality Work Source Type: news
Oooh, You're So Defensive!
Defensiveness is just ego? Nope. Defensiveness has its place and serves a purpose, keeping you focused on your work and not your doubts. The question isn't whether to be defensive but in which situations. It has its place and we should focus on where to place it, and where to replace it with receptivity.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Cognition Creativity Ethics and Morality Intelligence Personality Procrastination Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Spirituality Work Source Type: news
The Practical Reasons We Resist Criticism
Defensiveness is just ego? Nope. Defensiveness has its place and serves a purpose, keeping you focused on your work and not your doubts. The question isn't whether to be defensive but in which situations. It has its place and we should focus on where to place it, and where to replace it with receptivity.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Cognition Creativity Ethics and Morality Intelligence Personality Procrastination Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Spirituality Work Source Type: news
The Primal Scene: 100 Years of FOMO
The primal scene is 100 years old. What does Freud's "Wolf Man" case have to teach us about 21st Century FOMO? read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anne Skomorowsky, M.D. Tags: Anxiety Child Development Sex Social Life freudian psychology social media voyeurism Source Type: news
Learn These Six Hidden Assumptions to Conquer Social Anxiety
Learning to question, challenge, and refute these six erroneous, hidden assumptions will free you from the inhibiting clutches of social anxiety. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Resilience Self-Help health. mental health love relationships Source Type: news
What Are We Afraid of Now?
I live in "Earthquake Country," otherwise known as California. My newspaper arrived on my doorstep this morning bearing a spine-chilling front page headline: MASSIVE QUAKE COULD HIT ANYTIME. We've been hearing that for years, but something happened recently to alter my usual ho-hum response to such news.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: E. E. Smith Tags: Anxiety Environment Stress earthquake ebola mass hysteria Source Type: news
What to Do When Work Gets You Down
So often you hear the importance of not letting work stress creep into your personal life and vice versa, but how do you do that in an effective, practical way?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jen Kim Tags: Anxiety Happiness Stress Work acceptance dealing with stress dealing with work frustration home stress how to de-stress leave work early office politics personal life work stress Source Type: news
How to Overcome Your Social Anxiety
Social anxiety can keep you from making friends, advancing in work, and can lead to depression. The good news is that cognitive behavioral therapy can help you.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Self-Help aict CBT leahy social anxiety Worry Source Type: news
Threat and the Vaccine Effect
Encountering threats, we’re often vaccinating ourselves. Bad news spurs us to imagine how we could avoid such a fate. Consciously or not, we’re testing the threat, discounting it, taking it apart, desensitizing ourselves. In the process, we’re building up defenses against it as antibodies do. In the wisdom of slang, we’re building up our “resistance.” read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kirby Farrell, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Source Type: news
Ebola and the Vaccine Effect
Encountering threats, we’re often vaccinating ourselves. Bad news spurs us to imagine how we could avoid such a fate. Consciously or not, we’re testing the threat, discounting it, taking it apart, desensitizing ourselves. In the process, we’re building up defenses against it as antibodies do. In the wisdom of slang, we’re building up our “resistance.” read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kirby Farrell, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Source Type: news
This Brief Poem Is a Wonderful Tool to Lower Your Anxiety!
We often hear advice to "just" be mindful of our upsetting thoughts. "Just let it go", however, is easier said than done. Read on for a wonderful poem that I share with my clients who tell me it is a great tool to help lower anxiety and overcome many types of dark thoughts.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Source Type: news
How to Talk to Your Child (and Yourself) About Ebola
The problem facing most Americans is not the Ebola virus, it’s our anxiety about the Ebola virus. Yes, we are good at panicking, but we are also good at steadying ourselves and being smarter than our worry, and this is our opportunity to get even better at that. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tamar Chansky, Ph.D Tags: Anxiety Parenting Resilience Self-Help Anxiety prevention cognitive-restructruing compassion contagion of fear ebola empathy gratitude parenting tips worry-prevention Source Type: news
Managing Threat
Encountering threats, we’re often vaccinating ourselves. Bad news spurs us to imagine how we could avoid such a fate. Consciously or not, we’re testing the threat, discounting it, taking it apart, desensitizing ourselves. In the process, we’re building up defenses against it as antibodies do. In the wisdom of slang, we’re building up our “resistance.” read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kirby Farrell, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Source Type: news
Four Ways to Start Your Work Week at the top of Your Game
Going back to work can stir up any number of feelings. So how do you cope with being excited, nervous, pleased, worried, fearful, stressed, or any combination emotions? How can you make the transition in the most positive way possible?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: F. Diane Barth, L.C.S.W. Tags: Anxiety Happiness back to work fomo many selves Sunday night blues transition weekend anxiety Source Type: news
