Cardiac Anxiety refers to the association between anxiety and heart conditions, where acute and chronic anxiety are linked to sudden cardiac death and coronary artery disease in cardiac patients. AI generated definition based on: Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry (Sixth...
No one in my family talked about the forced cold showers, the electroshock therapy involved in keeping my paternal grandmother’s anxiety in check. No one said a word about my other grandmother’s body odor, greasy hair, and catatonic states. When I was a child, no one acknowledged that ...
Moreover, research has found that therapy delivered at a distance via teletherapy or over the internet (ICBT) is as effective, if not more so, than in-person therapy.[27][28]. Distanced therapy (ICBT) has also been shown to be cost-effective.[29] ...
And if you can’t care for a dog yourself, seek out a therapy dog, formally or informally. It’s hard to overstate the therapeutic value of pets, and dogs in particular — they aren’t called our “best friends” for nothing. Don’t get me wrong: I am both a cat person and a ...
In the last several years, the good news is that the stigma around mental health has been lifted, due in large part to social media platforms “getting the word out,” agreed all the panelists. According to Engler, “Kids and parents are talking about their therapy. The winds are shifting...
Know you’re not alone, both in feeling anxiety and in coping through it. Talk to safe people about your anxiety. Seekmental health supportfrom a therapist or therapy group, or talk to your medical provider. Remember that anxiety is not your enemy, but a way in which your body is trying...
so helpful, it seemed life changing. He sent me home with rescuing ways to stay calm when I needed to when I was alone which has never happened in therapy for me. I truly got to speak to myself, see myself in a way I had never had before. I felt so blocked from dealing with ...
"I learned more from your program than decades of therapy and group sessions ever provided me. I am still amazed of how simple and easy it was to follow your suggestions and how close I was to a solution from anxiety and panic attacks that had tormented me all these years. I have follo...
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“There are strategies we use in cognitive behaviour therapy that can help people think differently about losing control and to act differently,” he says. “The research will help us explore how far we can expand on that.” Radomsky says that asking people to try to lose control often lead...