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Expert_badge Lynne Taetzsch

Lynne Taetzsch

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Social Anxiety vs. Performance Anxiety

I think it’s often hard to separate social anxiety from performance anxiety.  After all, isn’t the reason we don’t want to be in a room with a bunch of strangers the fact that we aren’t sure how to act or what to say to them?  If we didn’t have to worry about our performance, what would be the big deal?... Read moreChevron
posted 04/14/2008, comments (0)|
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Heart Attack Risk 40 per cent Higher in Anxious Men

Older men, with no previous history of heart disease, increase their risk of a heart attack by as much as 40 per cent if they have longstanding anxiety problems. Research published in the January issue of the American College of Cardiology points to anxiety as a key risk factor and one that is independent of other common risk factors.   ... Read moreChevron
posted 01/10/2008, comments (0)|
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Hormones & Vulnerability to Stress

We can thank engineering for many of the terms currently used to refer to stress. Breaking point, tension, strain, elasticity, resilience, and of course stress, come to mind. Arguably, Hans Selye established the trend during the 1930s, when he first introduced the term stress to describe the relationship between the stress hormone cortisol and its... Read moreChevron
posted 01/04/2008, comments (0)|
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Reflections on Family Support

Each of us has a different relationship with our families in regard to PTSD (or other issues pertaining to an anxiety/depression diagnosis). I love my family and they have been supportive on many, many things. PTSD has not been high on the priority list, however. I have come to understand that each of us (we as well as our family members... Read moreChevron
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Keeping Pace with the Holiday Frenzy

The holiday season is feeling more and more like a frenzied free-for-all. I know, a lot of people say this and think this. But how do we each deal with it so it does not trample all over our sense of emotional well-being?   I allowed my sense of emotional well-being to get trampled each year. I was excessively anxious, frustrated and... Read moreChevron
posted 11/29/2007, comments (0)|

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