Tag: worry
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THE POWER OF YOGA: STRESS RELIEF AND INNER BALANCE
Numerous scientific investigations now validate what countless yoga enthusiasts have discovered: Be it for acute stress scenarios like childbirth or ongoing struggles with stress and anxiety, yoga proves to be an efficacious tool for soothing our nervous systems. Several factors contribute to yoga’s efficacy in managing stress and anxiety. While yoga might not resonate with…
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IS INSIGHT (AWARENESS OF ONE’S ILLNESS) IMPORTANT TO OVERCOME OCD?
Metacognition is defined as “cognition about cognition” or “thinking about thinking”. Precisely, it refers to the mental processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s understanding and performance (e.g., awareness that you have difficulty in mathematics, or reminding yourself to remember a person’s name). The importance of metacognitive processes is pertinent in the formation and…
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GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER 7-item (GAD-7)
This questionnaire is a screening tool that can help you find out if you might need treatment for your anxiety. Easy to use, this tool calculates how many common anxiety symptoms you have and, based on your answer, will help you assess their severity on a scale from mild to severe anxiety. Below is the…
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CAN YOGA HELP IMPROVE GAD SYMPTOMS?
Studies show that yoga is associated with more anxiety reduction than any other exercises; for example one study finds that in women with high levels of self-reported anxiety, two months of yoga reduced state (i.e., transitory) and trait (i.e., permanent, a personality characterisitc) anxiety compared to no treatment. Similarly, there is evidence in the literature…
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IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND POOR READING COMPREHENSION?
Finding out what the relationship between social anxiety and low academic scores in children is by looking into reading comprehension.
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WHAT PART OF THE BRAIN IS ACTIVATED DURING ANXIETY?
Anxiety activates different parts of the brain depending on whether it is anxious arousal or anxious apprehension.
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DISTINGUISHING ANXIETY FROM FEAR AND OTHER MOOD DISORDERS.
Distinguishing symptoms specific to anxiety disorders relative to fear and other mood disorders is a daunting task. A thorough review of the research data helps achieve some clarification.
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IS WORRY IN GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER (GAD) THE MANIFESTATION OF A NEUROTIC TRAIT?
Worry is common symptom of generalized anxiety disorder, but it is also a feature of neuroticism, begging the question of whether or not worry is actually an expression of that personality trait rather than a symptom of the disorder.
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FROM UNCERTAINTY TO ANXIETY
Uncertainty fuels anxiety by increasing worry and fear.
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ANXIETY DISRUPTS DECISION-MAKING AT THE NEURAL LEVEL
Emotions like anxiety interfere with our decision-making process, thus shifting our subjective perspective towards negativity.