Tag: anxiety
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Mindfulness Exercises
Read more: Mindfulness ExercisesFrom The Mindful Way Through Anxiety–or, rather, from the book’s website–some audio mindfulness exercises. (The promo material at the beginning of each ends quickly.)
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Anger and Pain
Read more: Anger and PainWebMD reports on a new study: Anger Increases Pain in Women. Treatment–in this case CBT–shown to help. Treatment effects were significant, showing positive differences in pain, fatigue, and functional disability, and in anxiety and negative mood, the researchers say. “Our results demonstrate that offering high-risk [fibromyalgia] patients a treatment tailored to their cognitive behavioral patterns at an…
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School Phobia
Read more: School PhobiaKids who really don’t want to go to school addressed in When a Doctor’s Note for a Student Doesn’t Help (NYT): The first time I realized I was complicit in school refusal, I didn’t even know the term. It was about a decade ago, and my patient was a boy who seemed to be spending his…
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Stretch Your Mood
Read more: Stretch Your MoodYoga, meditation, pets, nature, and 15 other mood helpers. Meditation Can Improve Brain Function (PsychCentral) 15 Ways to Help Treat Depression Naturally (WebMD) New study finds new connection between yoga and mood (ScienceDaily) Do Pets Help with Depression and Stress? (WebMD)
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College Anxiety and Depression Upswing
Read more: College Anxiety and Depression UpswingPsychCentral: More College Students with Depression, Anxiety More college students are grappling with depression and anxiety disorders than they did a decade ago, according to research presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association. And with greater diagnoses of depression and anxiety has come a related rise in the number of college students on psychiatric…