Studies suggest that mood can be manipulated by behavior and experiences. Those who change their behavior and experiences can then improve their mood. The idea is that we can’t control our feelings or our mood. We can control our behavior… Read More »Can Hopelessness Make You Ill?
If you change jobs or location, it is possible for symptoms of social anxiety to emerge as you adjust to your new lifestyle. Changes in life responsibilities such as now having to meet new people, give speeches, or other new… Read More »Symptoms for Social Anxiety Disorder: Just Nerves or Something Bigger?
What triggers your anxiety may be different from what triggers mine, but regardless we all benefit from becoming more attentive to our internal landscape. Whether it’s that we need to clean up our diet, get more exercise, sleep more deeply,… Read More »What Triggers My Anxiety?
Hope that things will get better and that the storm we’re currently in will pass. It helps us keep our moving toward our goals. It motivates us to achieve. It gives us a reason to fight and try to get… Read More »The Psychology of Hope
Anxiety is something we all experience as humans. If you have been alive for more than a few days, chances are you have experienced anxiety at some point in your life. It often has a negative connotation, but anxiety can… Read More »What Does an Anxiety Attack Feel Like?
While one person challenged with Social Anxiety Disorder might feel anxious communicating with even one other person, another might be more tolerant to interacting with a small group of three to five people before feeling the effects of nervous symptoms.
When you set time aside each day to think positively, you feel fantastic at that moment. You have those positive thoughts floating around your head, and you can feel great about every situation. The problem? Eventually, you will have to… Read More »Why Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work
If you find yourself wanting to or actually responding in anger, you need a break. It could be that the mental demands of the job are too much. Or, you could need more support at work. This might include training,… Read More »Truly Legit Reasons to Take a Mental Health Day
Eventually, we associated asking for help with weakness, inadequacy and clinginess. That’s why when people ask, “How are you?” we will instinctively say, “I’m fine.” And when they say, “Do you need anything?” we will answer, “No thank you.”
It is important to note that all of the possible relationships between positive thinking and well-being, outcomes, etc., have not been explored. Maybe they never will be, but there still remains a fair amount of evidence dating back to the… Read More »Scientific Studies on Positive Thinking