anxiety
A look at anxiety in its many forms and manifestations; what is the nature of this specific pattern of extreme fear and worry?
Anxiety and Depression in Young People
Picture this: A twenty-three-year-old woman, let’s call her Anna, is in her senior year in college. In a year, she’ll be out of university and into the ‘real world’ where she expects to land a well-paying job that will kickstart her career. Suddenly, she got wind of news about a fast-spreading virus from Wuhan. She thought it was not a big deal, that is until a few weeks later when governments around the world announced full-scale lockdowns. Her life drastically changes within a span of a few months. Her last year in college would be online, she would barely be outside, and she would be isolated.
By Athena Wisdom Institute5 years ago in Psyche
You Must Get Lost Before You Find Yourself
"You have to get lost before you find yourself." A quote from one of my favorite novels, Paper Towns by John Green. I have read that story back in college, and I was clueless then, not understanding what that means, but I remember that it instilled in my mind.
By Miss Sunday5 years ago in Psyche
Always afraid of important moments and want to escape? Psychological explanations about accepting oneself
Self-accusation makes us always afraid or avoiding The person who is about to start the speech thinks: "You are about to make a fool of yourself. Your speech must sound silly, and the audience in the audience will definitely laugh at you. I am afraid that no one will be interested in what you are saying!"
By Tamekka Faniel5 years ago in Psyche
A Helping Hand
I have struggled with mental illness since I was a young child. Presenting as a child with hypochondria. As a published author and columnist, I have written extensively on my own battle with Anxiety and Depression. I was fortunate that when my condition reached a critical phase in my 20’s that Prozac had just been FDA approved. I wrote immediately a heartfelt yet humorous account of my illness for New York’s Avenue Magazine, entitled Prozac Poster Girl. It earned me more fan letters than any article I have ever published. I went on to pen a book on Breast Cancer which was very rewarding, as my mother had just been diagnosed. It was life-affirming to write that book and yet my number one issue remained Anxiety and Depression.
By Christian Good5 years ago in Psyche
Pain into Passion
Over my working life, my anxiety has developed as each environment taught me new things, and others left me feeling traumatized by the way I was treated. As I have embarked on my own personal journey to overcome the repercussions of this, it has become my responsibility to learn and share these management tools with those around me.
By Courtney Laura5 years ago in Psyche
4 Books That Help Ease My Anxiety During Rough Phases. Top Story - June 2021.
I have been reading books ever since I learned how to read. I started with fairy tales and fantasy fiction, as all children do, and kept branching out to other genres all through my life. Now I read everything under the sun.
By Aditi Balaji5 years ago in Psyche
The girl who doesn't talk
The first time it happened, I was very young. I had just started grade one and I had arrived late to school that morning and found myself standing in the corridor outside the activity room - a teacher either side of me. The junior school assembly had begun and I was meant to be in there, singing ‘Waltzing Matilda’ with the rest of my class. But I was here, my feet glued to the grey linoleum floor, staring straight ahead like a startled rabbit. The teachers were asking me how I had arrived at school and the more they probed, the more I shut down. I was literally frozen with fear, my words were trapped beneath a painful lump in my throat. ‘You must have got here somehow’, one of the teachers said, ‘did you fly here?’ Suddenly I felt her hand on me, turning my stiff little body. Peering around at my back she said, ‘I can't see any wings. Can you see any wings Miss ‘so and so?’ ‘Nope no wings’, replied the other teacher, glancing at my back. I can’t recall what happened after that nor do I recall why I was late that day. What I do remember clearly is the sensation of being completely incapacitated in that moment. I was experiencing a condition called selective mutism (SM) - an acute anxiety response that paralyses the vocal cords, occurring in select situations (typically at school).
By Jania Williams5 years ago in Psyche
Can I edit the memory by tracing the mark left by the memory?
Based on previous research, scientists have found causal evidence of memory imprinting at the level of cell collection for the first time: by killing a specific group of cells in the amygdala, they successfully erased the specific memory in the mouse brain, thus confirming The memory imprinting cell is indeed the physical trace left by the past experience representation in the brain.
By Gina Rojas5 years ago in Psyche
9 things only deeply anxious people understand
Anxiety neurosis is referred to as anxiety disorder. It is a neurotic disorder characterized by widespread and persistent anxiety or recurrent panic attacks, often accompanied by autonomic symptoms and motor tension. The form of anxiety comes from a variety of experiences, including observation and learning of correct or incorrect information, and direct experience of real or perceived trauma. In the long-term state, it develops into the current behavior pattern, and the prevalence of women is significantly higher than that of men.
By RACHEL DARLENE HAGEN5 years ago in Psyche
This is a cold of the mind, anyone may get
"Depression" has become the number one mental problem that plagues mankind. Some people describe it as a big black dog, watching the black dog go from time to time in life; some people suffer from it, but they are still fighting stubbornly; After a difficult climb, they finally reached the top of the mountain and met a brand new self... From a negative emotion to a disease, what kind of mental journey have they gone through? Let us stop, come to understand, listen, feel, walk into "depression" and restore more colors of this world.
By GEORGE MENDEZ5 years ago in Psyche
