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
The Anxiety Dating Dilemma
A 28 year old women details her troubles with love and anxiety. (Click image)
Study: Social Anxiety Sufferers Are More Sensitive To Negative Comments
It's bound to happen at some point in everyone's life. Somebody makes a negative comment and it hurts your feelings in a big way. But according to a new study conducted by researchers affiliated with the National Institute Of Mental Health social anxiety sufferers react more to these types of comments. The study subjects were split into two groups - those with and without social anxiety disorder . The two groups were shown a series of negative comments and those without an anxiety disorder were found to react far less negatively than their
Are Anxiety Disorders Curable?
If you have had an anxiety disorder for more than a few months then chances are that you have looked for a cure for your anxiety disorder. You may have went to Google or some other search engine and actually typed in the search box "cure for anxiety" or something like that. Or maybe you went to a library and did some searching there. And although I don't know how you searched, it is likely that you didn't find exactly what you were looking for. As with any mental or medical condition, when people become afflicted with something
Anxiety Looking Game
Do you ever feel like people are staring at you? Of course we all look at each other when in public, but do you ever feel like everyone is looking at you as you walk past them? I still get this feeling even though I understand that in the whole scheme of things I'm not that special. I was in Costco (super discount store) the other day and felt like everybody was checking me out. Although my rational mind told me that no one in that entire building was all that interested in me in particular, I swore that they were. This is uncomfortable