Attached at the Hip: iPhone Separation Affects Us, And How!
An elegant study at the University of Missouri just confirmed what many of us can attest to anecdotally: smartphones may effectively be an extension of ourselves, causing us anxiety and possibly making us dumber when we hear them but are unable to answer. Clearly, we have welcomed technology into the boundaries of our selves. What do we do now?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ravi Chandra, M.D. Tags: Anxiety amygdala iPhone Source Type: news
A State of Psychiatric Emergency
Psychiatry is fast approaching a death spiral which we as a society may not be able to recover from. In many residencies, psychotherapy is not even being taught. Many psychotherapists of all professions have been intimidated by specious neuro-biochemical theories, while others have simply given up. And now, there aren’t many remaining good therapists in practice anymore.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Berezin, M.D. Tags: Anxiety Ethics and Morality Neuroscience Personality Psychiatry Therapy Source Type: news
Fuggedaboutit
Why You Need to Control Your Memory and Not Let It Control Youread more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Srini Pillay, M.D. Tags: Anxiety Cognition Creativity Memory creativity. Srini Pillay nostalgia pain PTSD remembering srinivasan pillay total brain makeover trauma Source Type: news
Beware the Dangers of FOMO
FOMO frequently provokes feelings of anxiety and restlessness, often generated by competitive thoughts that others are experiencing more pleasure, success, or fulfillment in their lives than they are. It can also be a response to a conscious or unconscious fear of aging and/or dying. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Linda and Charlie Bloom, Tags: Anxiety Depression Happiness Relationships All That You Can ' t Leave Behind commitment competitive David electronic devices fear fomo missing out obsessive preoccupation priorities supervisor tet messages twenty years Source Type: news
The ABCs of Freedom from Anxiety
Get to the core of your bedeviling anxieties. Change the core. Set yourself free.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bill Knaus, Ed.D. Tags: Anxiety Resilience Self-Help Stress ABC technique acceptance of anxious feelings anxiety about anxiety anxiety habit anxiety thinking behavioral actions against anxiety confrontation anxiety coping. Albert Ellis core problems Dec Source Type: news
Sensitivity Can Have Its Drawbacks
Rather than serving as the framework for virtue, sensitivity may produce the opposite of the virtue of compassion, namely the vice of indifferenceread more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Arthur Dobrin, D.S.W. Tags: Anxiety Ethics and Morality C. Daniel Batson empathy pro-social behavior sensitivity Source Type: news
The Cognitive Traps that Can Harm Intergroup Relations
Cognitive "traps" such as racial anxiety and the stereotype threat can diminish the quality of intergroup interactions in ways that reinforce racial inequalities.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Tags: Anxiety Ethics and Morality Race and Ethnicity Source Type: news
Day 8. Offering One Small Gift With Love
our mental health hinges on many large matters -- but also on the smallest gestures read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 9, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eric R. Maisel, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Depression Self-Help creativity emotional health love mental health Source Type: news
The Four Gifts of Anxiety
You can choose to see anxiety as a problem and its symptoms negatively, as burdens, says personal coach Sherianna Boyle. Or you can choose to use anxiety as a lever to unearth positive attributes within yourself.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Book Brigade Tags: Anxiety Happiness Self-Help Stress awareness inner strength mindfulness spirituality Source Type: news
There Is Nothing Either Good or Bad But Thinking Makes It So
Lack of empathy is the black hole in our social relations.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: William L. Mace Tags: Anxiety Ethics and Morality Race and Ethnicity Therapy Source Type: news
Day 7: Having Hope When Hope Makes Little Sense
Hope is an essential ingredient to mental health. What should you do if you can't find reasons to keep hoping?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eric R. Maisel, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Anxiety Depression Self-Help emotional health existentialism mental health Source Type: news
Sublime Terror
The same people who are afraid of stinging insects and disgusted by rotting meat, are tempted to approach a swarm of bees and poke at maggot-riddled road kill. What’s going on with this paradoxical repulsion and attraction? The psychological phenomenon of the sublime has been explored for centuries, and it’s still something of a mystery.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeffrey Lockwood, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Environment Evolutionary Psychology Philosophy attraction disgust entomophobia fear repulsion sublime Source Type: news
Managing Your Emotions
There are times when we are in difficult encounters with others and we cannot physically leave the situation. We need to manage our emotions and remain centered in order to be our best selves. Having a regular practice we can call on in these times of need can serve us well, but we need to develop the practice so it. read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Ph.D., CCS Tags: Anxiety Ethics and Morality Happiness Relationships communication emotional intelligence Nonverbal communications Source Type: news
Becoming a minority fuels conservatism
Psychologists are presently very interested in understanding factors that predict political ideology. A recent series of studies asks whether White Americans, when facing the future as a minority group, shift politically to the right.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon Hodson, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Politics Race and Ethnicity Source Type: news
Freedom from Emotional Storms
If you have more than your share of emotional crises, let’s look at how to avoid them.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bill Knaus, Ed.D. Tags: Anxiety Procrastination Self-Help Stress Source Type: news
