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How Anxiety Leads to Assumptions

My Brains Not Broken

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about the impact that my experience with anxiety has on me. But after years of learning about myself and my anxiety, I’ve started to notice the patterns that my anxiety creates. Anxiety is an interesting thing. ” And the wordplay aside, this adage makes a good point.

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Medication for Depression or Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

If you have been prescribed medication for depression or anxiety, it is important to know it can take a good four to six weeks before you truly feel the benefit. Unlike a Tylenol for a headache which usually reaches therapeutic level in about 20 minutes, medications for depression and anxiety literally takes weeks.

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Treating Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

About that anxiety. Given an anxiety disorder, the saying, “trust your gut,” just doesn’t hold. As for medication, typically those referred to as SSRIs are helpful for an anxiety disorder. The nature of the disorder is to be held hostage by feelings that don’t fully fit the situation.

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When Anxiety Leads to Restlessness

My Brains Not Broken

Sometimes, anxiety is like an itch you can’t scratch. While there are a lot of symptoms and aspects of anxiety I find frustrating, what might be the most difficult for me is that struggle I sometimes face to describe what I’m feeling. This is how I’ve gotten to this point multiple times over the past few weeks.

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What Anxiety Feels Like: Practical Strategies For Managing Anxiety

Blurt It Out

Anxiety is a prevalent mental health condition characterized by feelings of worry, fear, and unease. It’s essential to recognize that anxiety is a normal human emotion and serves as a protective mechanism in threatening situations. Anxiety can also manifest in more unexpected ways.

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When Someone You Love has Anxiety…

Gary Direnfeld

For many, there is a relational aspect to anxiety. Those that get drawn in become part of a dynamic where as they try to comfort, cajole, support, facilitate, the one with the anxiety experiences and expresses greater fear. In turn, the anxiety escalates. They seek others to help them manage, make them feel safe or less anxious.

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Daily Mindfulness Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Study Says

MQ Mental Health

A new study from the Universities of Bath and Southampton, published in the British Journal of Health Psychology, found that just 10 minutes of daily mindfulness practice can significantly improve wellbeing, reduce depression and anxiety, and motivate people to adopt healthier lifestyles, including better exercise, eating, and sleeping habits.