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What You Need to Know About Alcohol and Anxiety
The relationship between alcohol and anxiety can be complicated. Many adults can safely drink in moderation. For others, alcohol may cause anxiety or aggravate pre-existing conditions. There are several reasons why alcohol tends to mess with your peace of mind. A lesser-known one is that it changes brain chemicals like GABA involved with regulating anxiety.
5 Ways to Combat Perfectionism
Striving for perfection isn't always good for you. If it's been taking over your life, here are some things that might help you out!
How to Cope With Anxiety
Sometimes just the idea of coping with painful anxiety can make you anxious. But ignoring your anxiety tends to only make it worse. Finding ways to cope with anxiety by facing it is the way to go.
11 Things You Can Do to Cope With Coronavirus Anxiety
During this novel coronavirus pandemic, lots of emotions are running high. Anxiety is one that fits the situation but also feels overwhelming when it gets intense or out of hand. Here are some things to try to mitigate your anxiety response.
Coping Skill Are Stupid…
...and other lies depression tells you.
Last month I wrote a blog post about coping skills. I outlined what they are and gave you some basic ones to help you get started in building your “toolkit.” It’s not lost on me; however, that as necessary as coping skills are, the ones I gave you sometimes just don’t cut it. So today I’m presenting some different, more nuanced coping skills for one particular situation: depression.
