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Fundamental Anxiety: The Anxiety of Being Who You Are

Fundamental Anxiety: The Anxiety of Being Who You Are
Does Your Life Feel Disingenuous? Sometimes in therapy I come across clients who report they don’t really know what they truly want or who they really are. They have been so used to adapting to others or trying to be who they think they should be that they have lost touch with themselves and have…
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The Best Way to Deal with a Panic Attack Is To Do Nothing

The Best Way to Deal with a Panic Attack Is To Do Nothing
  The human organism is designed to protect us from danger to ensure our survival. One way it does this is to make us afraid of things that can cause us harm or death. Unfortunately sometimes this built in alarm and detection system is a little too sensitive and can cause us to feel afraid…
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Should I Take Medication for My Anxiety and Depression?

Should I Take Medication for My Anxiety and Depression?
Questions You Should Ask Yourself about Psychiatric Drugs: Psychiatry is in fashion these days. Increasingly people are choosing to "pop a pill" to rid themselves of their depression or their anxiety. Statistics show that every 10th adult in the United States is currently taking an anti-depressant as part of their daily routine. Oftentimes, however, people…
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Borderline Personality Disorder and The Fear of Being Yourself

Borderline Personality Disorder and The Fear of Being Yourself
The concept of Borderline Personality Disorder is often understood as being synonymous with an impossible individual who acts out in the most ostentatious ways. The concept conjures up images of suicidal threats and acts, as well as intense anger and aggression. However, there is a more subtle kind of borderline anxiety that is less “in…
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What Many People Don’t Know about Social Anxiety

What Many People Don’t Know about Social Anxiety
Social Anxiety, like so many other “anxiety disorders”, is not really about anxiety. If we look a little deeper there is almost always something else at stake... Anxiety as Substitute Emotion Quite frequently, anxiety acts as a substitute emotion that takes the place of the real issue that therapy needs to focus on. Anxiety is…
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Generalized Anxiety Disorder: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a label often given to people who worry excessively about many different things. They worry both to the point of making themselves significantly distressed and to the point where others start to get exasperated because they really don’t find the anxious person's worries to be justified or realistic. Why Do…
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Low Self-Esteem and the Flight from Self

Low Self-Esteem and the Flight from Self
Many people in our society live lives that are not fully their own. They try to become their ideal self - an image of who they SHOULD be - rather than to be who they truly are. Although there is nothing wrong with striving to be better at something, sometimes these strivings secretly function as…
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