anxiety
A look at anxiety in its many forms and manifestations; what is the nature of this specific pattern of extreme fear and worry?
Anxiety Is in Your Body, Not Your Mind
Let's go back to 60,000 years. Assume you're a Neanderthal out for a walk in the countryside. Suddenly, you hear a tiger in the surrounding bushes. Your entire body begins to respond in a nanosecond. Your heart beats faster, your breathing becomes shallower, your eyes dilate, and your body begins to produce adrenaline.
By Mind & Relationships5 years ago in Psyche
The Biggest Ride
This was it. The most daring thing she had ever done. She was incredibly nervous, her stomach filled with butterflies, her hands unable to stop fidgeting, and her thoughts and heart racing. She was with two of her best friends, one of whom was celebrating her birthday. Just minutes earlier, her friends had dared her to go on a huge ride, something she had always refused to do. Ever since her childhood, she always looked on at this long, tall wooden structure whenever she came here and wondered how anyone could go on it without feeling anything other than fear and worry. She asked her friends to reconsider, but in response, they joked they would call her cowardly if she didn’t. She finally gave in, buying her ticket and waiting in the long line, anxiously waiting for this horrifying situation to be over.
By Jamie Lammers5 years ago in Psyche
Regretting Regretting. Top Story - April 2021.
My biggest regret is spending so much time regretting. Oh sure I can list oh so many cringeworthy moments. Mishaps with bodily functions. Bra straps showing. Green food in teeth. Colossal errors in people’s names, especially when in front of fifty people I’ve mixed up Mr. Chiang with Mr. Lee, or Ms. Gomez with Ms. Fuentes. All the times I didn’t listen – I thought he was joking when he said the price tag was showing on my hat that I went on to wear for months. All the times I was unintentionally cruel. Or cruel out of my own indecisiveness. All the times I was careless or lazy – why did I wreck that guy’s performance by not learning the words and harmony to the song we were singing together? All the times I laughed too loud and kept repeating the same lame remark. Or did I? Was I just carefree and fun? Oh, the rumination.
By Ida Verity5 years ago in Psyche
Perfectly Content
There it is. There on the horizon, so close yet so far, lies the ship on the still waters. Its sail a striking white against the clear blue of the sky, its hull of lustrous wood at peace on the contrasting deep blue of the ocean. A perfect vessel aligned in the differing shades of blue, a visible boundary of Sea and Sky, a marker, a monument that bridges the gap between two great forces where never the twain shall meet.
By Scarlett Brooks5 years ago in Psyche
Feeling embarrassed
Imagine standing in your kitchen hiding behind a wall. Why? Well to avoid your delivery driver who is dropping off your groceries. You know they can’t see you through the window in your living room, but yet you still stay hidden in your kitchen. An extra wall for protection. You don’t understand why you don’t want to see them or why it makes you feel so anxious.
By Samantha Valentin5 years ago in Psyche
20 Tips For Dealing With Anxiety
20 Tips For Dealing With Anxiety Uneasiness is a characteristic response to a portion of life's most difficult circumstances. In little, intermittent dosages, it very well may be something to be thankful for—rousing you to comply with a time constraint, breeze through an assessment, or convey an all-around created show. As a component of what's known as the battle-or-flight reaction, tension triggers the physiological changes that permit you to manage stressors enormous and little. Your pulse accelerates, you inhale quicker, and your muscles tense, so you can make a move on the off chance that you need to.
By Sarfraz Hussain5 years ago in Psyche
The Dark Side of The Moon
On April 4th, my chest ached. I wasn't physically hurt, nothing had impacted my breastbone or anything . . . but sometimes I got like this. A restless irritation buzzing in my limbs, a tight chest that felt like a heavy weight was pressing down on it, and this urge like I was going to cry (and a serious fear that I wouldn't be able to stop). I was not comfortable standing and pacing, nor was it any better to curl up into as tight a ball as possible. My existence was discomfort and my focus was unrelentingly focused on that.
By Delise Fantome5 years ago in Psyche
How Playing Like A Kid Helped Me Manage My Anxiety
I had never really heard of or thought about the idea that playing with kid's games could help reduce anxiety. I was always under the impression that you just needed to think differently about your problems, and everything would be OK.
By Elena Athon5 years ago in Psyche
