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Relationship Anxiety: How to Spot the Signs, and How to Manage It

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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.

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What Is Relationship Anxiety?

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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Know the Important Facts About Emetophobia — the Fear of Vomiting

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Nobody loves throwing up… but if your aversion to it has become extreme, you may be dealing with emetophobia. Fortunately, the condition is treatable.

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What Exactly Is Emetophobia?

Let’s face it – vomiting is an uncomfortable, disgusting experience. But everyone will vomit at some point in their life (usually many times). The ability to vomit is actually a healthy survival mechanism – sometimes it’s important to get out harmful substances you’ve ingested (e.g., poisons, spoiled food, germs) as quickly as possible.

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Anxiety and Difficulty Swallowing

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Swallowing is something that everyone does, many times per day. How does something so familiar become a source of anxiety?

Bodily Functions and Conscious Control

The human body relies on several important functions every day to keep it going. Many of these are totally outside your control. For example, your heart will continue beating automatically – you can’t make it beat or not beat on purpose, even if you try. Digestion is another good example – your stomach will digest whatever you consume without any purposeful influence from you.

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All-or-Nothing Thinking: Examples and How It Causes Depression and Anxiety

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Do people often tell you that you see things in black and white, and miss all the shades of gray? This problem is called “all-or-nothing thinking” and can lead to real problems. Learn about the phenomenon and its consequences.

all or nothing thinking black and white thinking right or wrong

All-or-nothing thinking is one of several common unhelpful ways of thinking known as cognitive distortions. All-or-nothing thinking casts things in extremes – it seems there are only two ways things can be. This kind of thinking makes it easy to believe there is no flexibility or ambiguity in a situation. It leads you to feel trapped by what seems like a small number of possibilities.

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What Are Intrusive Thoughts?

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Many people experience intrusive thoughts, often in the context of obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or anxiety disorders. They can be very disturbing. Read on to learn about the different types of intrusive thoughts and some helpful strategies.

There Are Multiple Types of Unwanted Thoughts

Intrusive thoughts are thoughts that you wish you didn’t have. They’re unwanted and disturbing. They can happen to any of us but happen most often for survivors of trauma, those with anxiety, and those with OCD.

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