I have some good news and I have some bad news. Let me tell you what happened. Yesterday I burst through my front door, put away all the random things I carry during the day, washed up and served myself a little plate of pasta. I grabbed my plate and walked over to my computer to check some emails, check a few websites I frequent, the usual. I just finished slurping up the last of my pasta when the phone rang. It turned out to be my wife, who I chatted with for a few minutes when I noticed that one of my sisters was calling on the
What’s the Best Option for Treating Anxiety and Depression?
Today I want to chat a bit about treatment options for anxiety and depression because I'd like to clarify a few things. And in case you're strapped for time here is what I want to say: Curing abnormal anxiety and depression has nothing to do with magic, voodoo, or instant anything. Instead, treating abnormal anxiety and depression involves finding the right mix of remedies that work for you, committing to that treatment, and a little time. This whole issue of anxiety treatments came up because I recently read a question posted on
10 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships
Today, I get personal. But it's not because I'm looking for undue attention, it's because I thought it was the best way to describe how anxiety can come between you and the people you love. I also wanted to show you how you can overcome this phenomenon. At the height of my anxiety my wife and had problems, to say the least. I often had my head in the clouds and did nothing but complain about my anxiety. Eventually my wife and I ended up in a cold war of sorts. Unable to come together fully, but still had to try and find ways to deal
The Power of Perseverance
Right now you're enduring a lot. You're trying to live your life while you also navigate the difficulties of anxiety. Today, I want to share with you how you can do that better, so you can begin your journey toward recovery. Now, I know that sometimes you feel like you're hanging on by the thinnest of threads and that at any moment that thing is going to snap, sending you spiraling into madness, or something like that. Let me just say this: that ain't gonna happen. I can tell you what will happen though. You'll continue to think
The Dangers of Absolute Thinking
One of the best ways to stay anxious is to be inflexible. The biggest reason why many anxiety sufferers are inflexible is because they think in absolute terms. Everything is all or nothing. In other words, you don't just get chest pain, you get potential heart attacks. You don't just get headaches, but potential brain tumors and so on. Learning how to break the chains of absolute thinking is essential to getting rid of your abnormal anxiety. At the height of my anxiety illness I'd always rely on my best guess about what was going on
How to Move Forward in the Face of Change
Being an anxious person is a shocking experience. No part of becoming or staying anxious is easy. A lot of that has to do with the huge amount of change that you undergo when your life is turned upside down by anxiety. Everything suddenly becomes about what you should or shouldn't do to avoid being anxious, or about how anxiety is going to tear down your health or make you go crazy. Hard change, indeed. Facing change of any kind can be hard on anybody, but for you it's a monumental struggle. Anxiety causes you to live in a constant
My Rebirth
Today I'm going to talk about myself. I never talk about myself, really. I suppose that I don't because this blog is about helping you. But I want to tell you about how helping you has changed my life. In 1999 I started a new phase in my life, namely an anxious phase. In 2006 I started dabbling in research about how to help myself. By that point I'd gone through therapy, rejected meds, and was confused as ever. By 2008 I had made a lot of progress in terms of understanding what was wrong with me and how I could fix it. That's around
Are We Bothering Others?
Today's guest post is brought to you by Daniel Stelter from the Anxiety Support Network. For many social anxiety sufferers including myself, a common thought that we often struggle with is the belief that we are bothering other people by talking to them or asking them things. Sometimes, this belief arrives from the experience that when we were so afraid of doing things on our own, we would ask so many questions of others that we actually did end up bothering them. Once it became clear to us that we were overstepping our bounds and
Attention: Anxiety Does Not Cause Insanity
The fear of going crazy is common among anxiety sufferers. Actually, and unfortunately, this fear is almost universal among the nervous. However, this fear is also unjustified because anxiety does not cause insanity. No part of anxiety can make you crazy, even if you sit around thinking that insanity is imminent. What I want to share with you is that you think that you're going to go nuts not because you are, but because you're under a lot of stress. This in turn causes a great deal of worry and introspection. But that's about it.
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