What to Know and How to Cope Feeling worried every now and then isn’t unusual, but anxiety can have you feeling nervous much more often. Anxiety disorders can cause you to struggle with feeling helpless and anxious. You might also feel a sense of impending doom and have other symptoms, such as a faster heart […]
Healthy Ways to Train Yourself to Deal with Anxiety
Feeling nervous or anxious at times happens to everyone. However, being anxious on a regular basis is a sign of anxiety. Dealing with frequent or severe anxiety can affect many aspects of your everyday life, including interpersonal relationships and work. While struggling with anxiety can be difficult, there are healthy ways to train yourself to […]
How Trauma Changes Your Thinking
I talked in a previous video about how trauma affects how you store memories. Traumatic experiences can also affect how you perceive things and cause you to have what we call cognitive distortions. These distortions are especially present in people who develop post-traumatic stress disorder from an event, but you don’t need to have that […]
Anxiety Help
Help for anxiety can come through medication and non-medication options. Medication The mainstay of medication treatment for anxiety disorders is the serotonin-enhancing antidepressants like the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (Prozac, Lexapro, Zoloft) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (Cymbalta and Effexor). Even though these medications are anti-depressants, we also use them to treat anxiety disorders like Generalized […]
Two Tips for Health Anxiety
The clinical term for health anxiety used to be hypochondriasis, but now it’s been split into two disorders, somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. With health anxiety you are oversensitive to body sensations and fear you have a serious illness. The fear of having that illness overwhelms you and leads to you engaging in […]
Staying Stable and Motivated While Stuck at Home
Many people struggle with staying motivated and keeping their spirits up when they’re stuck at home in quarantine. This video is based on a viewer question from Kelly. She asked how should she deal with fluctuating mood and energy levels in this time of being quarantined at home? Here are some suggestions Set a routine […]