Surgeries come in two flavors, elective and non-elective, and both can be the source of significant worry and, at times, depressive thoughts and feelings. Regardless of the type of surgery (elective or non-) the reality is that there is almost always something wrong with our body or the promise of something that might go wrong in the... Read more
There are lots of cognitive therapy techniques that are used to combat worries that just can’t be shaken, so I will only mention just a few more of them that are really very easy for most of us to use.
As we all know, anxiety and worry are all about the future.... Read more
As I said last week, solutions and strategies for the nagging worries and racing thoughts can be placed in one of three categories – environmental interventions, cognitive / behavioral interventions, and physical / physiological interventions.
Environmental... Read more
So, the worries and racing thoughts have you, huh?! Well don’t feel bad, you are not alone and there is actually some predictability to when you are most likely to be troubled by them, as mentioned in last week’s blog. That predictability allows you to identify some strategies that work in the situations that arise most often. So, lets map out... Read more
Being diagnosed with a serious illness, particularly one that is life threatening is almost always accompanied by anxiety and worry. Lots of questions fly through your head. Will I survive this? What happens next? Can I endure the treatments? How will my family be affected? And on and on and on…
Fortunately for most of us, the worry... Read more
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