Worry

What I love about worry is it’s so portable. You can worry almost anywhere about almost anything! Whether it’s sitting on the couch in your own living room downing red wine and throwing ... Read More

We all know an adrenaline junkie: the friend who jumps out of airplanes for fun, the sibling who spends her time traveling to war-ravaged countries, or the co-worker who spends her weekends ... Read More

The senseless violence of exploding bombs at the Boston Marathon have left countless lives forever changed. Sadly, this is not the first tragic act our country collectively has faced, and ... Read More

How is one to cope with the fear and uncertainty of a national media saturated with negative and frightening images of one tragedy after another? There is no need to identify specific incidents; ... Read More

Anxiety and depression share many common symptoms. They both influence overall mood and can make people feel edgy, irritable, and tense. Additionally, the most common comorbidity of psychological ... Read More

“Oh, I wish I was a kid again. No anxiety, no stress, no worry …” Sound familiar? There is a big misconception that kids don’t feel stress, but they experience anxiety ... Read More

Insecurity is one of the trickiest relationship issues because it tends to create a self-perpetuating cycle. Insecure people frequently cling to their partners, which causes their partners ... Read More

In the broadest sense, it is difficult to determine if girls exhibit more anxiety than boys. Taken in a general context, adolescents are highly vulnerable to anxiety due to the developmental ... Read More

If you have a child with special needs, a typical day might begin something like this: You wake up before your alarm goes off. Your mind is racing. You can’t stop thinking about the most ... Read More

It is said that there are two things we can count on: death and taxes. I’d like to add to that list stress. Stress affects all of us, and it is believed to cause many of the other medical ... Read More

It would be nice if life presented itself as a clear-cut path with well-defined signs to clearly state what we should do (or not) at each fork in the road. The weather would always be beautiful. ... Read More

Anxiety, like depression, can be both a symptom of underlying concerns, such as posttraumatic stress, and the cause of other symptoms, such as sweating and insomnia. While some people experience ... Read More