INTRODUCTION: Anxiety Is the National Mood (and the Default Setting) If aliens landed tomorrow and asked, “Take me to your calmest human,” we would have nothing to offer them except a barista on break who briefly forgot they had student loans. People say things like: “I work well under pressure.” “I am just busy.” “I...
OCD officially packed its bags and moved out of the Anxiety Disorders “house” in 2013 when the DSM-5 came out1. Before that, it lived with all the other anxious conditions, but the experts decided OCD was just too unique to be lumped in2. Now it lives in its own fancy neighborhood called “Obsessive-Compulsive and Related...
A Hundred Years of Worry Every generation of kids has been anxious. The triggers and the parenting styles just kept changing with the times. In 1918 the Spanish flu killed about 50 million people worldwide1, and a ten-year-old could easily lose a sibling overnight. Nearly one in five American kids under 16 worked full time...
One major complaint I hear from people is that they feel “stuck”. In general, feeling “stuck” refers to a psychological state where a person feels unable to change, progress, or escape from their mental or emotional experience. It can reflect a sense of inertia, paralysis, or hopelessness, and is often associated with a lack of...
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