Category Archives: Post Traumatic Stress
Fear denied, repressed, suppressed, or put out of mind is not fear extinguished. Treating anxiety: ‘as if’ I’ve been told that acting ‘as if’ I’m not nearly as anxious as I am is a helpful thing. It’s also dangerous. As … Continue reading
Happy is what brings healthy, and viceversa, so it can’t be that much of a surprise anxiety and depression have had some pretty rough consequences on my health; High blood pressure at 25, on-and-off flings with anemia, near-constant sleep deprivation. … Continue reading
On acceptance, anxiety and guilt Life with mental illness isn’t always fun. Not just because I have a real illness, and that real illness really does affect my life but because some folks have trouble accepting this. I’m not entirely … Continue reading
Even after all this talking, and doing, fixing, and mulling-over, and redoing, I still find that I go through stages of really, really disliking dealing with myself, all this: the anxiety. I worry about the things that maybe I can’t … Continue reading
I come up against this wall plenty, in treating anxiety: Combating the sense of hopelessness, of powerlessness, that only too often accompanies the worst symptoms of anxiety disorders. How do I not get stuck when simply feeling things seems way … Continue reading
Is panic emotional pollution? Running on adrenaline, cortisol -the fear center of the brain staging neurochemical warfare on your nervous system- is the equivalent of climate change. It’s dangerous. It’s doing your whole system damage you can’t even see: Forests … Continue reading
Have you ever felt safe? Maybe that seems like a stupid question, and if it does, consider yourself lucky is about all I can say. My therapist asked me something like it once, and I ended up triggered, taking a … Continue reading
Anxiety manifests itself in the everyday, supposedly humdrum of it all, and fear has a way of telling me things which are otherwise impossible to speak; The things I cannot acknowledge must still be expressed, for so long as they … Continue reading
Anxiety: It wasn’t always like this. Was it? Imagine you’re dating your anxiety disorder. Scary, isn’t it?! Now here’s how one gets into this mess: When anxiety and I first got together, things seemed OK. The first date was a … Continue reading
What do you do if you feel stuck, helpless, hopeless, trapped, or in a crisis state? What happens when the help you get isn’t enough, isn’t good enough, or just isn’t available at that time? Why is treating anxiety often … Continue reading
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