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Stress refers to your physical and psychological response to demands, difficulties, or challenges. Common symptoms of stress include muscle tension, rapid heartbeat, excessive sweating, irritability, and difficulty breathing. Anxiety involves feelings of fear, worry, and/or dread in anticipation of possible danger or a negative outcome. Like stress, anxiety can cause […]
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Anxiety Shaking: Causes and Coping Tips
Anxiety can cause physical symptoms, such as shaking, but there are ways to manage it. You may think of your anxiety as something that only affects your brain, but for many people, anxiety presents with physical symptoms as well. One of these is shaking. If you experienced your knees knocking […]
Signs, Causes, and Coping Tips
Life after college can be tough. If you’ve felt a little down — or more than a little down — since graduation, you definitely aren’t alone. Many people find the post-grad transition period difficult. Some even go on to develop post-grad depression, meaning they feel so low, tired, or unmotivated […]
3 coping tips for climate anxiety
For Peri Plantenberg, climate anxiety darkened her sense of the world at age 14. She read a United Nations report about intensifying droughts, rising sea levels and growing social instability if humans didn’t get their act together to stop global warming. But Platenberg’s initial feeling – “I’m just a kid. […]
Depression in Women: Unique Effects, Hormones, Coping
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Depression affects at least 350 million people around the world. Women are twice as likely to deal with its symptoms as men. Countless factors can influence how the female body and mind respond to life’s changes and challenges. These include genetic issues, physical problems, and social factors. Understanding how depression […]
Feeling Stressed, Anxious, and Sad About Ukraine? Tips for Coping
The last two years have been stressful to say the least. But the world is still turning after a health crisis that globally shook daily life in previously unthinkable ways. In many places, masks are coming off. Travel restrictions have loosened. As another long COVID winter started to end, there […]
Anxious about Ukraine? North-east experts’ tips for coping
Anxious about Ukraine? North-east experts’ tips for coping Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook […]
Yes, you could have PTSD from last February’s winter storm. A counselor shares coping tips.
People shared photos on social media of full bathtubs and backup battery sources. Stores were out of bottled water, bread and other staples. Texans were determined to be more prepared for the winter storm last week than the one in 2021. Then, the Texas electric grid was mere minutes from […]
Child’s Advice for Coping With Anxiety Goes Viral on Twitter
Here is Clark’s advice for coping with anxiety, accompanied by a few brief explanations for context from his mother. “You gotta say your affirmations in your mouth and your heart.” “Another mom on Twitter talked about saying affirmations with their kid before school. We tried it. Sometimes I tell him, […]
Tips for coping with anxiety | Lifestyle
In Eminem’s hit “Lose Yourself,” he sings, “His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy,” and I think many of us can relate to this feeling of anxiousness. During their teen years, as kids slowly become more independent, they are having to deal with social and peer pressure, as […]
How Are You Doing? Coping During America’s Pandemic Depression
CHICAGO — How are you doing? I loathe that question. When someone casually asks about my general condition, the first thing that comes to mind is everything that sucks. Take this month, for instance. My furnace died. My great-aunt and uncle got hospitalized with COVID-19. My stubborn dad still won’t […]
A simple coping toolbox can help children
We are facing a national child and adolescent mental health crisis. Dr. Vivek H. Murphy, U.S. surgeon general warned of the “devastating” impact of the pandemic on young people. Three of the leading organizations in the field agree. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent […]