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Therapy for the End of the World
On September 1st, 2019, the category five storm Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas with gusts of 354 kilometres per hour and storm surges of over six metres. Instead of sweeping up what it could before steadily moving on, Dorian was patient, pummelling the islands for over forty hours straight. More than 70,000 people were displaced and 13,000 homes destroyed. On land, as the morgues filled up, bodies were piled high in refrigerated containers.
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Patients with public speaking anxiety show improvement after VR exposure therapy, study finds
A new study suggests that exposure therapy using virtual reality (VR) technology may be an effective way for patients with public speaking anxiety to overcome their fears. These findings were published in Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
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Your Brain Is Not for Thinking
In stressful times, this surprising lesson from neuroscience may help to lessen your anxieties.
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Listening to your heart might be the key to conquering anxiety
Neuroscience is revealing that the heart and body exert huge influence over the brain – and that connection could help autistic individuals to better process their emotions.
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Anxious About What’s Next? Here’s How to Cope.
This is a time of the year often marked by personal and professional transitions, a time of graduations, weddings, first-days-at-the-new-job, and strategic planning for the next fiscal year. These transitions often bring a mix of anticipation and excitement — a sense of not knowing exactly what lies ahead but an eagerness to get there, nonetheless.
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UCLA launches a major depression study in collaboration with Apple
Researchers at UCLA have announced that they have launched a new study in collaboration with Apple that will look at revolutionizing the detection and treatment of depression. The three-year study started this week and was co-designed by researchers at UCLA and Apple. Researchers will obtain objective measures of factors like sleep, physical activity, heart rate, and daily routines to link those factors and the symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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Pandemic leads to higher depression, anxiety and fear, studies show
The COVID-19 pandemic led to higher levels of depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies and psychological trauma among American adults during the early months of its spread, according to three new studies published by University of Arkansas sociologists.
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Scientists explain why stress can age you on a cellular level
According to the Stress in America survey from the American Psychological Association, released in May, this year marks the first significant increase in reported stress since the survey began in 2007. On a 10-point scale, the average stress level is 5.9. For parents with children younger than 18, it’s 6.7.
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Study on ‘hangxiety’ finds shy people experience an increase in anxiety a day after drinking alcohol
Shy people are more likely to experience anxiety during alcohol hangover, according to a recent Personality and Individual Differences study.
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10 Ways to Help Anxious Students with eLearning
Anxiety is a normal human emotion, however it can interfere with the learning process. This article provides some tips on how to help anxious students with learning and make corporate training programs more effective.
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What Your Anger May Be Hiding
The heading above (which, half-seriously, I've contemplated submitting to various quotation dictionaries) aptly sums up my professional experience working with this so very problematic emotion. In the past 20+ years I've taught well over a hundred classes and workshops on anger management and delivered many professional presentations on the subject.
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How mobile solutions help pediatric patients deal with anxiety
Mobile solutions provide access to information, games, apps, and processes that can help us deal with anxiety and other mental health issues.
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Bong Joon Ho's tips on how he stays so chill: 'I'm actually very anxious'
What's the secret to Bong Joon Ho's success? Keep it simple and channel your angst into your work.
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Social anxiety is linked to impaired memory for positive social events
People with social anxiety tend to have a harder time remembering social scenarios that end positively, according to new research published in the journal Cognition and Emotion. The study provides more evidence that social anxiety is related to biases in memory. “Prior research has suggested that symptoms of social anxiety are related to memory biases for autobiographical information, and particularly biases for negative social information,” explained study author Mia Romano of the University of Waterloo.
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Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
Facebook is designed to make you anxious, depressed and dissatisfied, three states of mind that make you more vulnerable to advertising and other forms of behavioral manipulation. Small wonder, the…
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Can Social Anxiety Lead You to Misread Facial Cues?
New study how social anxiety can lead to misreading other people’s emotions.
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Research Suggests Trump's Election Has Been Detrimental to Many Americans' Mental Health
For many Americans, the anxiety surfaced on Election Day of 2016. As the possibility of a Hillary Clinton victory began to slip away—and the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency became more and more certain—the contours of the new age of American anxiety began to take shape. In a 2017 column, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank described this phenomenon as "Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder":
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Terry Crews and the Discomfort of Masculine Anxiety
On Tuesday, Brooklyn Nine-Nine star and former NFL linebacker Terry Crews testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to advocate for H.R. 5578, the bill often referred to as the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. In a stirring, vulnerable account, Crews detailed the profound impact of the sexual assault he first alleged last October in a series of tweets.
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The augmented reality app helping veterans manage anxiety
Healium AR blends storytelling, neuroscience and game design so users can harness their feelings to power virtual worlds and find a sense of calm.
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Google searches on 'anxiety' accurately indicate when and where people are feeling anxious, study finds
Google searches for anxiety appear to accurately reflect population-level anxiety, according to new research published in the journal Emotion. “I am interested in the potential of big data analysis in illuminating the cultural influence on human minds. I think this type of analysis is especially useful to study questions that are difficult to study otherwise,” said study author Takeshi Hamamura, a senior lecturer at Curtin University in Australia.
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