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How Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Helps Break the Anxiety Cycle

CBT helps to identify anxious thoughts that lead to an overload of physical symptoms. If it is more, it results in avoidance, thus increasing fear. CBT first identifies such thoughts, which are then checked against facts. Following this, the patients

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CBT for Depression and Anxiety: What Patients Should Know

Depression and anxiety aren’t just mental illnesses. Simple tasks are heavy, anxiety squeezes your chest before meetings, and 2 am thoughts loop endlessly. Difficult relationships, reduced work performance, and burnout from carrying it by yourself. Many people come to a

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Does Self-Paced Learning Ease Teen Anxiety?

WHO estimates that 4.1% of adolescents aged between 10 and 14 years and 4.6% of 15- 19-year-olds are affected by anxiety disorders. Adolescence is generally a difficult period of life involving plenty of struggles and stresses. The school workload constitutes

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Biohacking and Health Anxiety: When Health Tracking Becomes an Obsession

How often do you check your smartwatch per day? Today, a lot of individuals use different health monitors such as watches, rings, or even mobile applications that track sleep, heart rate,  stress, calories, and even blood sugar. Currently, the global market

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Eco-Anxiety and the Brain: What happens to the Amygdala during Eco-Anxiety?

One would think that the very idea of waking up every morning feeling the tension would not be so severe, except it isn’t from a personal crisis: it could be wildfires burning on another continent, warnings of flooding in a city

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Why Do Some People Hate Phone Calls? Understanding Phone Anxiety and Telephobia

Imagine this: you are texting someone, you need to get some essential details across, and your phone rings, and you see that the person you were texting is calling you. You start to see a blurring of your vision, your hands

Education

The Pink Elephant Paradox: Neuro-Cognitive Mechanics of Thought Suppression and the Anxiety Loop 

Imagine a scenario where a surgical resident, “Dr K,” is performing his first solo operation. The  mentor leans forward and says softly, “Don’t cut the femoral artery, whatever you do.” On a moment’s notice, that one particular artery, which Dr

Research

New Study Links Designer Dog Crossbreeding to Increased Anxiety and Behavioural Issues  

A new study was conducted by Gina Bryson of the Royal Veterinary College, U.K., which provides plenty of new information for a cynophilist. The major focus of this research was on designer dogs that are created by intentionally breeding two different

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Fear of Separation: An Anxiety Disorder

When I first started going to pre- primary school, I saw my friends, including me, also crying so much before entering the classroom, hugging their parents tightly with a feeling of fear and did not want to come inside the

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When Success Defines You: The Hidden Psychology of High Achievement and Existential Anxiety

Consider an example of a senior consultant who has never had a full day off in three years. She wakes up at 5:00 am and checks her mail even before the kettle heats, and goes to sleep with her phone