Anxiety can sometimes take over our life, leaving us not knowing which way to turn or what to do to manage symptoms and improve our lives. The Health Central's Anxiety Community offers ideas, suggestions and information on living with anxiety in our daily life. Throughout 2011 there have been many outstanding posts and today I wanted to share with you some of those that give practical information to cope with your anxiety disorder.
How to Select a Therapist - Therapy is sometimes part of your treatment plan but it can be confusing choosing the therapist best for you. Our expert, Jerry Kennard provides guidelines to help you through the process.
Support Groups; What to Look For, Where to Find One - Besides therapy, another great resource to help you in learning to manage symptoms of an anxiety disorder is support groups, a group of people coming together to offer encouragement, support and sharing their experiences. But these types of groups are often hard to find. In this post, we talk about what to look for and where you can look to find the best group for you.
Tips to Overcome Test Anxiety - Most people feel nervous before a test, but for some test anxiety is debilitating, interfering with their ability to do well on the test and causing them to forget everything they learned. In this post, we offer some suggestions to help relieve the stress and anxiety both before and during the test.
Should You Tell Your Employer About Your Anxiety - Questions to Think About Before You Tell - If you have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, you may be wondering whether to tell your employer about your diagnosis. This is a personal decision with no right or wrong answers. We give you questions to ask yourself to help you decide what is best for you.
Should You Take Medication for Anxiety? - When diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, you probably have questions about medication. Should you take it? Will it help? If you take medication, do you need to do anything else? Are there side-effects of medications? Is it worth it? While we can't answer the last question or even decide for you whether anxiety medication is a good option for you, we can give you some information to help you and your doctor decide whether medication will be a part of your treatment.
New Job Anxiety - Starting a new job is scary. You are worried about your performance but you can't seem to focus because your anxiety gets in the way. You want to do well, but are worried that your anxiety is going to cause you to lose the job. Expert Merely Me helps with ideas to managing anxiety when starting a new job.
10 Lifestyle Stressors to Avoid - There are some situations in life you just can't avoid, you have to work through them and hope you will make it to the other side. But there are also ways to avoid stressors that can increase your anxiety. Our expert Jerry Kennard lists 10 stressors that you can avoid in your everyday life.
Relaxation for Real People - We have all read articles on how to relax but many are simple not possible. It is hard to just "turn off your mind" and meditate or to stop the worrying by replacing a worrying thought with a positive one. Expert Merely Me gives ways for "real people" to relax and find some down time in our hectic lives.
