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2 days agoWhen Anxiety Turns Us Into Control Freaks
Anxiety drives the need for control over ourselves and others, often leading to stress and repeating family patterns.
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2 days ago3 Hidden Causes of Stress
Anxiety often stems from a deep aversion to uncertainty and ingrained mental frameworks that fuel psychological distress.
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14 minutes agoThe people who say I don't really get angry aren't more even-tempered, they've just routed their anger into productivity, cleaning, and overcommitment so reliably that they no longer recognize it when it's happening - Silicon Canals
Calmness can mask underlying anger, which is redirected into socially acceptable behaviors rather than being expressed.
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6 days agoThe Link Between High Functioning Anxiety and ADHD
ADHD can manifest as perfectionism, leading to internal stress despite outward appearances of responsibility.
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5 days ago6 Ways ADHD Can Hide Autism
ADHD can overshadow autistic traits, leading to misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of individuals with both conditions.
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5 days agoThere's a specific kind of person who apologizes for things that weren't their fault, and it isn't low self-esteem. It's a preemptive fee they learned to pay to keep situations from escalating into something worse - Silicon Canals
Apologies can serve as a preemptive tool to de-escalate potential conflict, rather than solely indicating low self-esteem.
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6 days agoWhen Anger Waits: The Turtle Technique Beyond Childhood
The turtle technique is often introduced to children to help them manage strong emotions, guiding them to pause, breathe, and step back before reacting. It sounds simple, yet it carries depth when practiced with intention.
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1 week agoPsychology says people who rehearse conversations in their head before making a phone call aren't anxious for no reason - at some point in their life, saying the wrong thing had real consequences, and now they edit every sentence before it leaves their mouth like a person who learned the hard way that words can't be taken back once they land on someone who keeps score - Silicon Canals
Mental rehearsals before phone calls stem from past negative experiences and can significantly impact communication behavior.
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fromScary Mommy
1 month agoHere's Why Your Brain Hits "GO" On Every Anxious Thought Right When You Want To Sleep
Nighttime anxiety spikes are normal and caused by factors like blood sugar dysregulation, reduced distractions, and the brain's protective mechanisms becoming hyperactive in darkness and quiet.
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1 month agoOur Core Beliefs Impact How We Interpret and React to Things
Core beliefs, conditional assumptions, and coping strategies form a cognitive system that shapes how we interpret and respond to daily experiences, with adaptive beliefs promoting resilience and maladaptive beliefs creating rigid, extreme thinking patterns.
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2 months agoBig changes could be coming to how we diagnose mental health
The DSM is the primary diagnostic manual in psychiatry, faces longstanding scientific critique, and may undergo a major overhaul that could reshape disorder categorization and diagnoses.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoWhat I see in clinic is never a set of labels': are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness?
Ancient texts describe mental suffering resembling modern disorders, showing such conditions are timeless while psychiatric labels and diagnostic boundaries continue to change.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoWhen Tragic Stories in the News Trigger Health Anxiety
Tunnel vision happens when your mind zooms in on a single "threat cue" and filters out everything else. In this case, the threat cue might be: "He was young." "It was cancer." "It seemed sudden." "He probably didn't see it coming." Your mind grabs onto these details and begins building a narrative: "Cancer is everywhere." "People are dying young all the time." "It's inevitable that I'll get something serious." "If I do get sick, there will be nothing I can do."
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1 month agoWhy Do I Worry?
Worry is future-focused mental rehearsal that distracts from deeper emotions, harms physical and emotional health, persists through perceived protection and habit, and requires compassionate awareness and boundaries to transform into growth.
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1 month agoDiagnosing mental health conditions need not be a case of yes/no | Letters
If we treat ADHD as binary (you have it or you do not), we are missing the possibility that we all lie somewhere on a continuum with diagnosed ADHD towards one end (and perhaps an ability to focus and concentrate at the other). A diagnosis of ADHD then depends on where the line is drawn. I suggest that this line has been moved in recent years, so that a large group of people have been caught up in the positive ADHD group, who would not have been previously.
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