Anxiety Help L.A.

Month: November 2010

  • Salt on Melon

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    From “The Happiest Day,” by Linda Pastan. I didn’t even guess that I was happy. The small irritations that are like salt on melon were what I dwelt on, though in truth they simply made the fruit taste sweeter.

  • Focus Shift

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    Stressed Out About a Problem? Shift Your Focus (WebMD).  Article includes a list of suggestions. Getting caught up in a problem isn’t just frustrating — it can literally stress you out. When you’re stressed out, it’s harder to think clearly. Emotional stress can send your problem-solving skills into a tailspin.

  • Everyday PTSD

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    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder doesn’t just come from the battlefield. The disorder — in which a traumatic experience leaves the patient suffering from severe anxiety for months or years after the event — is often associated with battlefield combat and natural disasters. But as Dr. Frank Ochberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University, noted in…

  • Cybertherapy

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    Cybertherapy expands. For more than a decade, a handful of therapists have been using virtual environments to help people to work through phobias, like a fear of heights or of public spaces. But now advances in artificial intelligence and computer modeling are allowing them to take on a wider array of complex social challenges and to…

  • College Anxiety

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    Anxiety disorders have a new target: college students. College students make up more than seven percent of adults suffering from anxiety, according to the National Mental Health Association…

  • Capturing Calm

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    Portrait of a holistic psychiatrist in Minnesota. Dr. Henry Emmons…doesn’t really like talking about depression and anxiety; he prefers to talk about how to bring joy and calm into people’s lives.

  • Boomer Anxiety

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    Baby boomers face anxiety with aging, an image consultant weighs in (Vancouver Sun). “I hear from my clients: ‘I look in the mirror, and that’s my mother, or father. What happened to this young person inside?’ “ Link gone. Here’s HuffPo’s collection of anxiety and aging posts.  

  • Track Your Happiness

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    The NYT looks at the results of an app-based study:  When the Mind Wanders, Happiness Also Strays. A quick experiment. Before proceeding to the next paragraph, let your mind wander wherever it wants to go. Close your eyes for a few seconds, starting … now. And now, welcome back for the hypothesis of our experiment:…

  • City Life

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    Medical News Today:  City Life Is Hard On The Brain. Scientists are beginning to discover that city life is hard on the brain, where the need continuously to process multitudes of fleeting but compelling stimuli can impair mental processes like memory and attention and leave us mentally exhausted…

  • Binge Drinking and Stress

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    Science Daily:  Binge drinking in adolescence changes stress response in adulthood Alcohol exposure during adolescence alters the body’s ability to respond to stress in adulthood, according to new research in rats presented at Neuroscience 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held in San Diego. Because problems regulating stress are associated with behavioral…