Anxiety Related Topics 
Blurt It Out
APRIL 16, 2024
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.
Gary Direnfeld
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
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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My Brains Not Broken
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
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.
Gary Direnfeld
AUGUST 14, 2023
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.
My Brains Not Broken
AUGUST 16, 2022
And just like in my recent post, I want to share why instead of saying that I’m more than my anxiety, I explicitly try to reinforce the notion that I am not my anxiety – and here’s why. Since the pandemic hit in the United States in March 2020, my anxiety has skyrocketed. I am not my anxiety.
My Brains Not Broken
JANUARY 11, 2022
While I’ve improved how I manage anxiety over the years, there are plenty of ways my anxiety manifests that I’ve never been able to get a handle on. No matter how much I try to manage anxiety in every possible area of my life, there always seems to be something that makes me anxious. The Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic.
My Brains Not Broken
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder has taught me so many things about myself. But over the past few years, I’ve started focusing on other things connected to my anxiety. But over the past few years, I’ve started focusing on other things connected to my anxiety. Anxiety affects our bodies.
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