A recent study, Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear, is making a lot of headlines. I will go through the study in a moment. But first I want to make an observation from my clinical experience. A number of persons that I treated for anxiety disorders were on propanolol. …
NPR had a nice piece on the emotional impact of the economic recession. From resilience to panic to suicide attempts, NPR covers it all. You can read it here: Economic Crisis, Unemployment Take Emotional Toll. Or you can listen to it here.
Washington University’s newspaper reports on a study of social phobia among college students. One of its findings is that unstructured discussion of past upsetting events raises the distress level for some people. On the other hand, when the interview was structured, the “subjects’ moods did not worsen.” The NIH is promoting meditation, yoga, tai chi …
In the very first post on this blog, I wrote: "Actions based on anxiety are often regrettable." That may be true, but someone experiencing intense anxiety or a panic attack feels under great pressure to do something, anything to relieve the anxiety and improve their situation. Nevertheless, actions born from anxiety often have poor or …