I recently opened up the AG phone line and the first question is in. The question comes from Casey and she wants to know about anxiety during pregnancy and how anxiety might effect her ability to raise a child. This is an excellent and profound question on a lot of levels. Do anxious people make good parents? Is it a good or bad idea to have children when you suffer from long-term anxiety? I think these are profound questions because to a certain extent many, if not most of us, long to be parents at some point in our
Do You Make This Mistake When Anxious?
Have you ever tried to explain your fears about being anxious to someone and said something like, "I know I'm OK but...?" On what probably feels like a thousand occasions you've said that you're doing pretty good. Yet inside you might still be holding on to lingering doubts about whether or not you're going to survive your next bout of anxiety. You've at times even convinced yourself that you'll handle the next heart attack scare, panic attack, or uncontrollable eye twitch with a lion's courage, that is, until it happens again and you
Why Alcohol Causes Anxiety: Part 2
All right, all right... I know this post might only appeal to the drinkers among you, but I just had to do a podcast on this topic. Today, I want to do more than just answer the question: Why does alcohol cause anxiety? I want to get into details, motives, and provide you with some information that I hope will help you to avoid the panic and worry associated with alcohol related anxiety. The deal is, I wrote about this topic a long time ago and it has become the most popular article on Anxiety Guru Dot Net, so elaborating on the
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
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.
Four Critical Things Every Anxiety Sufferer Should Know
Remember way back when you were a kid and life was simple, or at least simple--er? The good ole days, right? Well, unlike your days as a young'un, today your faced with lots of distractions. Nothing is simple anymore. In fact, I'd say that much of your life's simplicity has been taken away by all the distractions that anxiety throws at you. Distraction has steered you away from seeing the big picture, which has probably also caused your anxiety to grow stronger than it needs to be. So today I want to talk to you about four things that
The Connection Between Anxiety and Depression
photo credit: dailyinvention In this episode of the Anxiety Guru Show I explore the connection between anxiety and depression. I also talk about what you can do to cope with both of them. I thought it was important to talk about depression because many anxiety sufferers have to deal with it. It can be really confusing and frustrating to be scared and sad at the same time, so I wanted to provide a short guide to help those feeling like there's no hope for the future. Anxiety and depression in some ways are joined at the hip. So that
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