Pregnancy is a time of many changes; it can bring about joy and excitement as well as anxiety. Learn about what pregnancy anxiety is and how to cope with it. It doesn’t need to interfere with your pregnancy experience.
Pregnancy anxiety can focus on concerns about the health of the baby or on having a miscarriage –particularly for those who’ve suffered a miscarriage in the past. You may also be worried about your own health and how to best take care of yourself during this time.
[Read more…]Relationships can bring us happiness, comfort, and a sense of connection. However, relationships can also bring about anxiety and stress. If not managed appropriately, relationship anxiety can get out of hand and negatively impact your relationship and quality of life. Learn more about what relationship anxiety is and ways to cope with it.
Relationship anxiety involves having worries and doubts about your partner’s feelings for you, your partner’s faithfulness, and your compatibility with your partner. Thoughts that might come up for someone experiencing relationship anxiety include my boyfriend might leave me for someone better, or my girlfriend will dump me once she figures out what I’m really like, or why doesn’t my husband seem to be excited to see me? Does this mean that he doesn’t love me anymore? or What if my partner has feelings for others?
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Trichotillomania is the recurrent and hard-to-control pulling out of one’s hair. The pulling occurs most commonly from the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelids, but it may occur from other regions of the body. People with trichotillomania often describe experiencing an overwhelming urge to pull their hair. This makes the behavior very difficult to control.
[Read more…]We all need the ability to soothe and care for ourselves. But how can we best do these things? Here we offer some tips to help you master these important skills.
Updated: June 26, 2022
21st-century living can be very demanding. People are often consumed by their day-to-day responsibilities such as work, household chores, or taking care of loved ones. Often there is little choice but to focus on the next task on the to-do list. As a result, we neglect to take the time to care for ourselves, which can leave us feeling stressed and burned out.
[Read more…]Life is full of situations that shouldn’t be the way they are! Sometimes you can fix these situations, but sometimes you can’t. Accepting things as they are is a powerful way to cope with situations that you don’t want or that shouldn’t happen.
Many things in life are beyond your control. Examples are everywhere: traffic, the weather, a burst bathroom pipe, difficult family members, or the death of a loved one — all things you don’t want or need, but things you cannot always prevent. Not having control over things can make you feel sad, angry, frustrated, or anxious.
[Read more…]“Teenagers, who are still developing their identities, are especially prone to take psychological labels to heart,” writes the psychologist @darbysaxbe. “Instead of ‘I am nervous about X,’ a teenager might say, ‘I can’t do X because I have anxiety.’”
Can’t Sleep? Try This Proven Alternative to Medication. #cbtworks
Perhaps the most underrated skill in CBT and DBT is... acceptance. Decades of research suggest that we could all benefit from using more acceptance in our lives. The dandelion story teaches us when and how to do it -- watch this video to learn. #cbtworks
Lost in self-doubt? Here’s how to succeed despite impostor syndrome. From the wise @jill_stoddard
