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Excellent New York Times article about anxiety. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety "Understanding the Anxious Mind" appeared in October in the NYT Magazine. It's a good read, a long, intelligent look at anxiety -- at the physiological responses rel ... Read on »

Video about cognitive-behavioral therapy. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Click here to view "authoritative information from the British Medical Journal on CBT, a psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety, panic attacks and obsessive-comp ... Read on »

Zach Galifianakis to play agoraphobic. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Not to turn all pop-culture fanboy, but...Zach Galifianakis is one of my favorite comedians. If you don't know him, the short bit above will give you a sense of his stage pers ... Read on »

Stunning images of the brain. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety As a recent slide show makes clear, as technology and our understanding of the brain have advanced, the ways we visualize its inner working has changed: Over the 100-year hist ... Read on »

Dude, where's my anxiety? by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Elle magazine recently ran a piece called "Pot Stirring", by Patsy K. Eagan, about the writer's personal use of marijuana to treat her anxiety disorder: I had a writ ... Read on »

Mindfulness vs. dysfunctional thinking. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I enjoyed this article from Psychology Today, about the benefits of mindfulness meditation to cope with anxiety. In the writer's words, "One of the first prerequisites co ... Read on »

Panic and shame. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Shame is part of the experience for most people with panic disorder. These are people for whom being out of control is unacceptable; that they lose control regularly fills the ... Read on »

Don't worry, be happy. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I've spent a fair amount of time lately writing about ways society and we as individuals can and have failed to respond constructively to anxiety, stress, and fear. Which is w ... Read on »

Illuminating depression. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety QUEST on KQED Public Media. Nearly 15 million Americans suffer from depression. Learn why depression is more than just "feeling blue," the difficulties of treating i ... Read on »

Is LSD the new Xanax? by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Studies have shown that psychedelic drugs may well be effective against anxiety. Unfortunately, thanks to 1960s society's fears of drug-crazed maniacs running wild in the stre ... Read on »

Perfectionism and anxiety. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety "'Good enough' may be good enough for other people, but it's never good enough for me." "When I make a mistake, I feel like a failure." "I study hard ... Read on »

Stress rewires the brain. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I don't know about you, but I'm fascinated by the biological and psychological causes and manifestations of panic -- by looking under the hood of panic, if you will. For insta ... Read on »

Vampire panic! by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety What with Twilight and True Blood and all, these days there's tons of interest in all things vampire. So this, a story about vampires in Tampa Bay, FL, ought to be of interest ... Read on »

TV piece about agoraphobia. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Here is a TV news story about a New Zealand woman's treatment for agoraphobia. Lighthearted but still quite informative piece to show friends and family who are struggling to ... Read on »

CBT vs. psychodynamic therapy by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Turns out they're equally effective, at least for General Anxiety Disorder. Read on »

On Whole Foods and health care reform. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety According to insurers, panic disorder is a preexisting condition that disqualifies one for individual coverage. If you have a W-2 job when panic attacks, then you're in luck - ... Read on »

On fear of flying. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Bill McGee of USA Today recently wrote a very thorough article all about the fear of flying, from what causes it... ...the "fear" of flying may in fact be comprised ... Read on »

Fear, panic, and society, part two. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety When you’re afraid, there are five basic steps to coping effectively. First, you must identify the cause of your fear. In my case, as long as I believed that what threa ... Read on »

How world-class swimmers manage anxiety. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety If you'd asked me, I'd have guessed that Olympic-level competitive swimmers are all but immune to panic. To excel to that level, after all -- to cope with the pressure of comp ... Read on »

Anxiety stinks. by Eric W. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Turns out that there really is a "smell of fear." At least, according to scientists in Europe.... Humans can smell fear, detecting molecules in sweat odour which ind ... Read on »

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