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Severe Anxiety And Information Overload, Is There A Link?
In today's era of information overload, severe anxiety can certainly manifest into a full blown anxiety disorder. Here's how to end the cycle of fear.
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Scott Morrison thinks 'getting a job' will cure people suffering depression...
Wow, just wow.
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Wil Wheaton for Project UROK
This is a video from Wil Wheaton, (@wilw) an actor, writer and king of the internet . Wil is best known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory. Wil talks about his struggles with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
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Feeling Anxious? Have a Pickle
I’m from northern Vermont, and am the descendant of a long line of uptight Puritans and taciturn ice fishermen. Chattiness is not our bag. At parties, we’re big on nail-biting reticence and we tend...
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Mental Mealth Stigmas Shift; Care Access seen as Poor
The social stigma around receiving mental health care appears to be changing in the United States, a new survey reveals.
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Make people uncertain then remind them about God, and they become more fearful of sin
There’s plenty of research about suggesting that feeling uncertain can increase the strength of belief in god in different ways. But what’s not clear is whether belief in god reduces the ill effects of uncertainty, or is a response to it. One theory is that a belief in God provides a kind of reassurance, which reduces anxiety.
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Does Schizophrenia Exist on an Autism-like Spectrum?
New research suggests hallucinations can occur in relatively healthy people. By Simon Makin.
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Was Ripon school gripped by mass psychogenic illness?
What doctors used to call mass hysteria usually occurs among close-knit groups as anxiety weaves its way through, causing physical symptoms. By Ian Sample.
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Studies link social anxiety to high IQs, empathetic ability & sentinel intelligence.
Excessive worry is generally seen as a negative trait and high intelligence as a positive one, worry may cause our species to avoid dangerous situations. An anxious mind is a searching mind, meaning that people with anxiety are constantly analyzing, assessing, formulation ideas, reflecting, and processing information.
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Did "electrohypersensitivity" drive Jenny Fry to try to commit suicide?
Is there anything to the parents’ claims? I’ve discussed the claims of “electro-hypersensitivity” (frequently abbreviated as EHS) before as being at the very least highly implausible, particularly the focus on wifi. In the modern world, we are bathed in electromagnetic waves from many sources, not just wifi. There are radio waves, mobile phone radiation, electromagnetic waves from electrical appliances and computers themselves, and many, many other sources.
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Anxiety raises risk for dementia
People who experienced high anxiety any time in their lives had a 48 percent higher risk of developing dementia compared to those who had not, according to a new study led by USC researchers. The findings were based on an examination of 28 years of data from the Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging...
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This Christmas, Tune It All Out
Before I had kids, I despised Christmas. I thought the holiday was symbolic of everything that was fake, exploitative and wasteful about our culture. And nothing symbolized our population's sheep-like inability to think for itself than millions of economically strained people stampeding into debt because Television tells them they will offend Christ if they don't buy thousands of dollars of worthless crap.
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Should I throw away food once a fly has landed on it?
It only takes a single fly to alight on your picnic lunch to make you uneasy about what germs may have landed with it. But what harm can come from a fly landing on your food? Should you throw it away?
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What You Should Know About Quitting Coffee
I am weaning myself off coffee. It is terrible, and you can do it too!
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Anxiety Drug Overdoses in U.S. Hit Record Levels
The number has quadrupled over the past two decades. More Americans than ever are overdosing on anxiety drugs, researchers reported Thursday — and it’s not clear why. The new study finds not only that more Americans are taking the drugs, which include brand names such as Valium and Xanax, but that they’re taking more of them.
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One Simple Phrase That Turns Anxiety Into Success
A simple technique called “anxious reappraisal” might help people channel nervous jitters into improved performance. By Olga Khazan.
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Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases
It is very common when I first encounter a client struggling with mental health issues that they report their problem is that they feel anxious or depressed. Here is a typical exchange: Me: So, can you share with me what brings you in? Client: Well, I have not been feeling good. I have these low moods that I can’t shake off. I want to stop feeling depressed. Me: What is it that gets you feeling depressed? Client: I don’t know. Nothing really. It just comes out of the blue...
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Better Living Through Meaninglessness
I’ve come to realize that my anxiety is more comfortable when I am involved in a contained drama, like a bad haircut. (July ’15)
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Anxiety disorders 'need more research', says global study
Anxiety should be given more attention in mental health research because it is more common than we think, says a global review of the disorder. Scientists from the University of Cambridge said women, young people under 35 and those with health problems were particularly affected. They estimate that four out of every 100 people are affected by anxiety.
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Breaking the cycle: How Pokémon Go can help fight mental illness
While the Pokémon characters created in the ultra-popular augmented reality app are fake, the impact the game may be having on people who suffer anxiety and depression is very real, proponents say.
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