To view the diagram used in this screencast in more detail click here . After having chronic anxiety for sometime you'll start to notice changes in your health. This is because anxiety creates stress and stress in big doses can effect the functioning of our bodies. Stress can change our ability to digest food properly, it creates increased stomach acid which leads to GERD and heartburn, blood pressure may be temporarily elevated, your immune system becomes depressed so that you get sick more often and for longer periods of time, it can
The Anxiety Guru Show: Podcast Round Up
It's been awhile since I published a podcast so I decided to do a podcast round up which basically consist of recent issues I've talked about on the blog. Here is a short list of some of the things I covered on this podcast. 1. State of the world and why this should not concern you as much as the news would have you believe. 2. Anxiety Cycle - a blurb about how we all have ups and downs with anxiety. 3. Coping and vice. 4. Does anxiety get better? I reviewed this question on the blog this week but I wanted to add a more complete
World Mental Health Day
Who knew that those that suffer from mental ailments had their own global holiday? I didn't. It turns out that Friday October 10, 2008 was World Mental Health Day. This mental health initiative is the creation of the World Federation for Mental Health or the WFMH . The stated goal of this quasi holiday slash global mental health awareness movement states as it's priority the "scaling up of services through citizen advocacy and action". The first Mental Health Health Day was celebrated in 1992 and so it only took me 16 years to hear about
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