Anxiety Help L.A.

Month: August 2010

  • Social Anxiety – You Are Not Alone

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    Erasing the stigma of social anxiety via You Tube:

  • Sex is Good Stress

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    Sex Is Stressful, But Good For You Just look at sex. It turns out that sex often triggers a large stress response, leading to a spike in glucocorticoid levels. The good news, though, is that this stress is good for us. While chronic stress normally leads to a dramatic reduction in neurogenesis, or the birth of…

  • Couples’ Driving Stress

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    Regulating Stress When Driving as a Couple Researchers tell us that people have different styles for regulating their experience and expression of emotion. Often partners are not only reacting to the road condition or the tension about the family visit, but the way in which each regulates stress. (Psych Central)

  • 22 Stress Busters

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    A list from HealthyPlace.com.  Here are 19 through 22: Do something random, just for fun. It fights the feeling that you’re trapped. Trust Yourself: That can be hard. Have patience. Try to run with the form the day takes. Stock an emergency life raft in your pocket: Just a slip of paper with a positive…

  • Stress Reduction via Long-Term Relationship

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    Marriage and committed romance reduce stress-related hormone production Being married has often been associated with improving people’s health, but a new study suggests that having that long-term bond also alters hormones in a way that reduces stress. Unmarried people in a committed, romantic relationship show the same reduced responses to stress as do married people.…

  • Coping with Stress

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    An hour on stress and coping from Dr. Susan Folkman:

  • The Anxious Brain

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    Researchers identify brain areas key to inherited anxiety disorder When a child encounters strangers, it is normal for him to freeze and be quiet for a few moments. When that child’s reaction lasts too long or he is too apprehensive, he may have a disorder known as anxious temperament, a risk factor for depression or…

  • Anxiety Therapy Los Angeles

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    Stressed-out or anxious in Los Angeles?  Call Anxiety Treatment L.A. to connect with a licensed psychotherapist.  Offices in Los Feliz and Beverly Hills–easily reached from just about anywhere in the city.  Calls and emails will be returned quickly:  (323) 739-4322.

  • What is Social Anxiety Disorder?

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    Video from Health Matters:

  • Back-to-School Separation Anxiety

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    Handling back-to-school separation anxiety Carrillo said a lot of times separation anxiety is caused by fear of the unknown. Parents may talk excitedly about kindergarten, but unless they explain what it’s all about, the child may be at a loss when they’re dropped off in their new classroom. (Visalia Times-Delta) That link died. Here’s another,…