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- Posted By Trace
On Monday, 07 January 2013 06:01
Time for a new thread, last few from the last one. Oops let the last one get too long due to holiday...
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On Wednesday, 22 May 2013 03:44
so I was doing so well for 3 weeks (with no medication and no therapy) I feel like my depression ha...
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On Sunday, 19 May 2013 23:09
This life is so full of beauty yet the horrors of it pervade the illusion, and that just totally suc...
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On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 15:27
First some background information, I'm 19 years old and looking for my first job. I really want to w...
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On Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:41
Hi, 25 year old male. I have been going to sessions for psychotherapy. Issues have been my guilt in ...
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Category: Stress
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Freeing Yourself from Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Exhaustion
"There is an alternative to the struggle that pervades much of our lives"
Published on September 2, 2011 by Danny Penman, Ph.D. in Mindfulness in a Frantic World
Can you remember the last time you lay in bed wrestling with your
thoughts? You desperately wanted your mind to become calm, to just be
quiet, so that you could get some sleep. But whatever you tried seemed
to fail. Every time you forced yourself not to think, your thoughts
exploded into life with renewed force. You told yourself not to worry,
but suddenly discovered countless new things to worry about. As the
night ground ever onwards, your strength progressively drained away,
leaving you feeling fragile and broken. By the time the alarm went off,
you were exhausted, bad tempered and thoroughly miserable.
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Life is a PTSD Event
There's a lot of talk these days about post-traumatic stress (PTSD) -
veterans returning from war who can't sleep because of nightmares, who
feel vulnerable and on-edge just walking into a crowded McDonald's. Or
people who have been in terrible car accidents that make them now shiver
while waiting at a red light, or trigger them into road rage when a car
suddenly weaves in their direction.
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By Melanie A. Greenberg, Ph.D.
We all know the uncomfortable feeling of anxiety. Our hearts
race, our fingers sweat, and our breathing gets shallow and labored. We
experience racing thoughts about a perceived threat that we think is
too much to handle. That's because our "fight or flight" response has
kicked in, resulting in sympathetic arousal and a narrowing of attention
and focus on avoiding the threat.
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Depression and anxiety have very different influences on how we perceive physical symptoms. Christie Nicholson reports
Past studies have shown that something called "negative affect"
(which is an overall smorgasbord of anger, sadness, fear, irritation,
etc.) causes us to inflate the number of physical symptoms we feel. But recent research from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has found that individual emotions—like depression and anxiety—have very different influences on our perceived physical symptoms.
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New Research Shows That We Control Our Forgetfulness, Could Impact On Depression, PTSD
Jul 2011 - Have you heard the saying "You only remember what you want
to remember"? Now there is evidence that it may well be correct. New
research from Lund University in Sweden shows that we can train
ourselves to forget things.
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Category: Stress
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Just like everyone else, people with panic disorder have real
stress in their lives. They get laid off and they fight with their
spouses. How such stresses affect their panic symptoms hasn't been well
understood, but a new study by researchers at Brown University presents
the counterintuitive finding that certain kinds of stressful life events
cause panic symptoms to increase gradually over succeeding months,
rather than to spike immediately. "We definitely expected the symptoms
to get worse over time, but we also thought the symptoms would get worse
right away," said Ethan Moitra, a postdoctoral researcher in the
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical
School of Brown University.
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