danstelter

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Many of us become very frustrated and find ourselves burned out very often or most of the time; in fact, burn out is a fact of life at some point in our lives for all of us affected by anxiety. When recovering from anxiety, for example, we do not magical... Read >

Educating Others About Anxiety: Identifying Potential Students

One important aspect of anxiety that I have not seen discussed in any other place, at least to my knowledge anyway, is educating others on how to interact with those that are anxious. Although this article is written with a slant towards social anxiety, ... Read >

Further Thoughts On Medication

Anxiety medication, and any medication in general, is something to be taken only with caution, and in many cases, doctors will unnecessarily prescribe medications that are not needed (need and want are two terms that people have a difficult time distingui... Read >

And Fail You Will

One problem that many anxiety-sufferers experience on an almost constant basis is perceived failure. The term perceived is used because many times when anxiety sufferers think that they have failed, they often in fact have done quite well or just about a... Read >

Identifying a Crisis Living Situation

American society, when properly analyzed, is easily identified as one being in total chaos. This is not only true in America, but almost all nations around the world as a whole. While this may at first seem to be an outrageous claim, it is in fact not t... Read >

Letting Go of Outcomes Reduces Anxiety

This is another one of those concepts that will probably always be a struggle, to some degree, for each and every anxiety-sufferer. For many of the chronically anxious, this is a completely foreign concept altogether. Although the new can be scary at ti... Read >

The Trail Guide

Metaphors are often a way of helping people to understand new concepts. Typically, I do not like to use metaphors as a way of helping people to understand things; I am more direct and practical and prefer to show people and have them do things in order t... Read >

Do Not Blame Yourself for Your Anxiety

Most of the time, it is wisest to refrain from phrases that are framed in the negative (phrases that begin with do not, you should not, or stop). It has been shown time and again in psychological studies that the most productive way to think that leads t... Read >

Run Toward Anxiety's Roar

Many articles detail certain common cliches, and whether or not those cliches seem to be true. Some turn out to seem true, while others turn out to be false. Here is another one that seems to be true, at least in the case of anxiety anyway: "run toward... Read >

Do Your Part to Recover from Anxiety

One thing that many of us anxiety-sufferers have trouble with is that sometimes we believe that everything will just come to us in our own time. This article will assert that is the case, but only if we do our part and do the work that is required of us.... Read >

Successful Processing of Anxiety

Anxiety is a condition that teaches us to keep things inward and not let others know about them. This only serves to strengthen our anxious response to many situations in life, and it increases the depth of our anxious belief system, which means th... Read >

What do I have to Know to Recover from Anxiety?

By now, if one has been reading very in-depth about anxiety, one may be beginning to realize that there is nearly an infinite amount of information to know and learn about anxiety. This is the case with nearly everything that one can think of earth... Read >

Anxiety: Is it Caused by Nature or Nurture?

One thing that has been debated for many years and will continue to be debated for some time is the nature versus nurture debate. What is this debate? This debate centers on what has caused a person's mental condition, in this case anxiety. On the... Read >

Knowledge is Power

Our society, and many others like it, is plagued by cliches, some of which are true, but most of which are not. Time will not be spent on arguing which ones are not true, but one that is true is that knowledge is power, and this article will demonstr... Read >

Confidence as it Relates to Anxiety

Many of us anxiety-sufferers have been so anxious for so long that we really have no idea of any other kind of life. Some of us will think that feeling constantly anxious, sweating, afraid, and nervous about everything is the way that we were meant... Read >