Have you ever wondered what exactly makes you officially anxiety ridden? I have thought about this question a lot and I wanted to a create a list of behaviors that say anxiety disorder loud and clear. Now this stuff is only funny when it's not happening, but it can be funny. You know you have an anxiety disorder when... 1. You enjoy checking your pulse AND have other people check your pulse too. 2. You can't sleep at night and watch colorful, cheesy and old television shows to help you fall asleep. 3. You question your sanity at
Color Yourself Calm
When I was a kid my mom and her sisters would have "coloring sessions". I never understood why adult women would gather around a table to color in coloring books, but it turns out that they were calming themselves. In family circles it was a well known fact that my mom and some of her sisters had anxiety issues, but what they didn't know was that coloring was actually serving them as an anxiety therapy. When we color it brings our brains into a semi-meditative state. So what you think of as child's play is in fact an inexpensive and effect
Automated Tranquility
It would be great if we could easily undo the accidental Jedi mind tricks that got our anxiety levels to this point. But the reality is that we will have to actively work on relaxing as part of our quest to manage our anxiety. To help us along I started a series of post related to alternative anxiety therapies. At first I wanted to talk about just a few over the past week. But I quickly realized that there were in fact many different types of therapies available to help an anxious person chill out and so I'll be introducing a few more this
Dance Your Anxiety Away
Therapy can be a frightening word because it brings up images of dimly lit waiting rooms filled with bad reading materials. But like the "smiling therapy" I recently reviewed there are in fact many fun ways to pursue therapeutics. One of the most fun forms of anxiety therapy I can think of is dance therapy. So despite your possible misgivings about looking goofy and or falling on your face you shouldn't be afraid to get on a dance floor. This is because there is real evidence to suggest that dancing can help improve your mood and serve as an
How Smiling Can Help Your Anxiety
Recently I posted an article about how to know when you need a therapists and I have decided to expand on this idea. In that article I spoke about how seeing a psychologist could help you if you felt overwhelmed by your anxiety. But are there other forms of therapy aside from talk therapy that can help you along? It turns out that there are quite a few of them and I wanted to share some of them with you as part of my "anxiety therapies series." Now the therapies I will be proposing are only called such because they are intended to help
How To Know When You Need a Therapist
During our daily struggle with post traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, or any other anxiety disorder, we tend to think that just getting by is enough. We figure that as long as things don't get too out of control that we can just get over it. But how do you know when enough is enough? How do you know when it's time to see a therapist? This is an important question to ask yourself. Because even with all the knowledge and good intention in the world the truth is sometimes you still need help. You may have relied on a good friend