The Deconstructing Anxiety model* provides an especially useful insight into the mechanism of the various anxiety disorders. It posits that generalized anxiety disorder can be understood as the source of other anxiety disorders, giving rise to them through a process...
Understanding and awareness of generalized anxiety disorder have been growing in popular culture. This, no doubt, is due in large part to the expansion of the “global mind” that is the internet. With this increasing awareness, more and more people are recognizing...
A fascinating study came out in May of 2020* that holds exciting implications for all of us. Researchers Lucas LaFreniere and Michele Newman asked the question: how many of the things people with generalized anxiety disorder worry about actually come true? The...
With the advent of the Internet, our “hive mind” (the sum of all our thoughts and ideas) became a living, breathing thing in cyberspace, like Jung’s Collective Unconscious made manifest. This has led to a vastly increased sophistication about mental health matters...
Anxiety is “generous”. With a menu including GAD, social phobia, OCD, relationship anxiety, specific phobia, panic disorder, PTSD, etc., anxiety offers so many varieties to choose from! Of course, I’m being sarcastic here, but the crucial point we must always keep in...