Stress: What’s Emotion Got to Do With It?
Are you stressed out? Here’s the secret to learning how to manage stress once and for all. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Erin Olivo, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Self-Help Stress coping with stress managing stress stress relief Source Type: news
Spaced Out
What is it about the cosmos that stirs up so many emotions? The conflict between beauty and emptiness is deeply ingrained into our perceptions of the world.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabriel C. S. Gavin Tags: Anxiety Depression Spirituality Carl Sagan Cosmos psychology space Source Type: news
Ebola 101: Managing our children’s fears
The current situation with Ebola is very scary to think about but there is nothing we can do about it. Our job as parents is to help our children deal with worrisome information by understanding how they think and process information at this formative time in their lives, and by giving them information they need to manage their thoughts and worries.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dan Peters, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Source Type: news
Why Testing on Monkeys Won't Help Kids
Studies done on monkeys do not result in benefits to humans. In fact, I am concerned with the psychological well-being of the children who are being targeted by researchers.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Guest Blogger Tags: Animal Behavior Anxiety Neuroscience Parenting animal testing children kids monkeys Source Type: news
Lab Successfully Grows Penises for Human Transplantation
Now that we have the capability to transplant a penis, who should benefit?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Guy Winch, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Health Sex dating depression Emotional First Aid male insecurity medical breakthroughs medicine organ transplants penile enhancement penis-size penises rejection romantic incompatibility self-es Source Type: news
How to Prevent Homework Procrastination
The brain has a hard time transitioning, starting things that don’t have immediate gratification waiting. But, the brain does like finishing things. So a parent’s job is to help kids develop a routine to quickly jumpstart their work, get a hook into those books, so that their wired-in desire to finish things will reel them in and help them get the work done.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tamar Chansky, Ph.D Tags: Anxiety Education Parenting Procrastination Avoiding procrastination flexibility Homework strategies homework struggles homework success parent-child relationship perfectionism planning school Source Type: news
Caring For The Parent Who Doesn’t Care For You
For the adult child, a parent's illness often brings the most difficult feelings of childhood to the surface, taking even the most prepared by complete surprise. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 8, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meredith Resnick, L.C.S.W. Tags: Aging Anxiety Depression Self-Help aging parents Birth order family caregiving Source Type: news
Epidemic Impacts Hormones, Muffin Top, Cognitive Function
Loneliness effects your well-being more than you think it does. Wondering just how detrimental it is to your success and curious how to conquer it easily? read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Harrow Tags: Anxiety Cognition Neuroscience Self-Help fear of public speaking loneliness public relations reduce fear of public speaking Source Type: news
How to Deal With Someone Who's Always Looking for a Crisis
People who are continually in crisis mode not only lead unhealthy lives but also create havoc for those who know or work with them. Psychology has some answers to help understand what’s behind it all and how to help them live calmer, more even-keeled and ultimately happier lives.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Personality Self-Help Borderline Personality Disorder crisis intervention histrionic personality disorder narcissism psychopathy therapy Source Type: news
The Psychology Behind the Crisis-Prone Personality
People who are continually in crisis mode not only lead unhealthy lives but also create havoc for those who know or work with them. Psychology has some answers to help understand what’s behind it all and how to help them live calmer, more even-keeled and ultimately happier lives.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Happiness Personality Self-Help Borderline Personality Disorder crisis intervention histrionic personality disorder narcissism psychopathy therapy Source Type: news
Find Your Swoon
“Can’t you hear it? Won’t you pay attention?” I wanted the world to know what I knew, and to feel what I was feeling. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rictor Noren Tags: Anxiety Creativity Education Happiness personal freedom personal power triumph Source Type: news
Free Yourself
The heart knows what the mind sometimes can’t grasp. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 7, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Sisgold Tags: Anxiety Happiness Health Resilience Stress Source Type: news
Media and Technology are The Worry Monster’s Biggest Ally
In my practice, I often discuss technology and media and I teach the need to monitor it for ourselves and for our children. If you or your child is prone towards anxiety and worry (The Worry Monster), the news and media will only serve to grease the tracks for worry and anxiety and fear about all the bad things that “may” happen and “could” happen in the future. Beware!read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dan Peters, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Source Type: news
Your Inner Compass, REBT, and Developing Your Self-direction
Want to build your self-direction? Start with decision making and disapproval seeking!read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pamela D. Garcy, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Creativity Depression Self-Help autonomy decision-making REBT; codependency; codependence social disapproval Source Type: news
About Morality, Are You Old-School or New-School?
Brenda has unconventional beliefs but an old-school approach to morality: Find the moral formula and police yourself and others to conform to it. Heather has traditional beliefs but a new-school approach to morality: Embrace broad universal moral standards, and negotiate the rest as a matter of personal preference. Are you more like Brenda or Heather?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - October 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Ethics and Morality Law and Crime Personality Philosophy Social Life Spirituality Source Type: news
