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The Difference Between Feeling Anxious and Having Anxiety

...anxiety disorder. An anxiety disorder is a very common mental health condition characterized by chronic symptoms of anxiety, often with no clearly identifiable or reasonable stressor. For people with anxiety...

By Liesl Goecker

All You Need to Know About Social Anxiety

...the seriousness of social anxiety and how it can change the way people lead their lives. Social anxiety is one kind of anxiety disorder characterized by an intense fear of...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Your Work Anxiety May Be Helping You Perform Better

...anxiety among employees, researchers looked at both the triggers of workplace anxiety and also its relationship to employee performance. “If you have too much anxiety, and you’re completely consumed by...

By The Swaddle Team

Separated Nerves

All You Need to Know About Separation Anxiety Disorder

...recognized as one among a spectrum of anxiety disorders that can negatively impair someone’s life. In other words, separation anxiety itself is normal and a healthy part of an individual’s...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

A Screen For Help

Adults Should Get Routine Screenings for Anxiety, Recommends U.S. Panel

...like anxiety, and the many ways it presents, also bolsters the silence around it. According to one study, the delay in initiating treatment for anxiety — from the time one...

By Saumya Kalia

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Anxiety in Children Can Be Overcome. Here’s How to Help.

...trivial) landscape of worries. But just because your preschooler’s fear seems superficial, doesn’t mean it is; kids need parents’ support in order to gain control of their anxiety. What is anxiety...

By Jehanzeb Baldiwala

For People With Social Anxiety Disorder, Everyday Interactions Are a Source of Fear

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common mental health issue that often gets written off as shyness. Social anxiety disorder’s symptoms include developing a fear of social situations, offending someone,...

By Anubhuti Matta

Calculated Discomfort

All You Need to Know About Math Anxiety

...anxiety could be a pedagogical failure, and may even have gendered roots. Still, research has found some correlation between math anxiety and general anxiety. Some studies have found a neurodevelopmental...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

New Year New Anxiety

Why the New Year Can Trigger Anxiety for Many People

...a recipe for debilitating anxiety, too, for many. Moreover, when there are so many elements that can trigger anxiety during this period, it can become difficult to gauge what specifically...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Not In My Control

Why Anxiety Can Sometimes Make People Feel Unsafe Even in Safe Environments

...in The Swaddle in 2019, explaining what it’s like to live with anxiety. Anyone who experiences anxiety knows how difficult it is to get rid of the overthinking, over-analyzing, over-worrying...

By Devrupa Rakshit

People With Anxiety Sometimes Choose Worrying Over Relaxing as a Coping Mechanism

...ones who are more vulnerable to these techniques. “Measuring relaxation-induced anxiety and implementing exposure techniques targeting the desensitization of negative contrast sensitivity may help patients reduce this anxiety,” she said...

By Pallavi Prasad

Weight Of The World

Depression, Anxiety May Take Toll on Health as Much as Smoking, Obesity

...published in the journal Health Psychology, specifically tied anxiety and depression to a series of seemingly unrelated diseases, and concluded that anxiety and depression are risk factors as serious as...

By The Swaddle Team

Robust Response

Aching Muscles, Racing Heart, Diarrhea: How Anxiety Manifests in the Body

...body can lead to chronic fatigue, on top of the usual anxiety symptoms that manifest in the brain, such as negative feelings of worry and fear. All combined, anxiety can...

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Your Anxiety Might Actually Serve a Purpose

Stop worrying about your worrying. A new study from the University of Waterloo has found a surprising benefit of anxiety: better memory. That is, anxiety affects memory positively — as...

By The Swaddle Team

State of Despair

Eco‑Anxiety Is Fuelled by Helplessness, Anger. Can We Turn Our Grief Into Climate Action?

...professor teaching a course titled “Eco-Grief and Climate Anxiety,” lays down steps to recover from both. Like other grief theories, the first step is to acknowledge the anxiety, anger, and helplessness...

By Saumya Kalia

How a Robust Climate Education Curriculum Can Address Young Adults’ Eco‑Anxiety

...are thinking and feeling—these situations are ripe to breed anxiety in anyone…,” The Atlantic noted. In a 2020 study, researchers explained climate-related anxiety could be either adaptive (prompting activism or...

By Saumya Kalia

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How to Keep Work Anxiety from Getting in the Way of Good Sleep

...anxiety. In fact, women in deprived communities without these traits were almost twice as likely to have anxiety as women living in more affluent communities. That’s not to say more...

By The Swaddle Team

Birds of a Cortex

People With Mood Disorders Share Same Neural Abnormalities as Those With Anxiety Disorders: Study

...as panic attacks, of intense anxiety, fear or terror that reach their peak hin minutes. Often, anxiety and mood disorders, like bipolar disorder, can occur together, worsening symptoms and making...

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