Having faithfully and diligently followed my advice in part 1 of the program, you now have a full four weeks of material to review and make sense of. The purpose of the exercise was to reveal something about your thoughts, your actions, your feelings and what you or others do to help your symptoms subside.
Let's focus on how you cope with... Read more
It what appears to reverse the accepted relationship between exercise and the relief of anxiety or depressive symptoms, researchers from the Netherlands have found no evidence that symptom relief comes about as a result of voluntary exercise.
Marlene H. M. De Moor, of VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands and colleagues, were... Read more
The sight of the ‘birds nest' Olympic stadium in Beijing is about to become a daily feature of our lives as the global media prepare to report on the games. For the participants, the difference between winning and losing could be measured in milliseconds. Records will be broken and World Class athletes will weep with joy as they... Read more
This is the first in a short series of shareposts to help you achieve mastery over what are commonly called panic or anxiety attacks. The program I'm about to recommend comes from my background as a psychologist. The techniques are based on a sound body of knowledge and proven clinical effectiveness.
Learning to help yourself isn't always... Read more