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3 Options for Coping with Social Anxiety

By Guest PostJuly 30, 2016General, Health, Scienceadam cook, addiction, addictionhub, asd, coping, meditation, ptsd, self medication, social anxiety, website, yoga

Social anxiety can be a crippling disability to live with. It can interfere with your ability to make friends, find romantic connections, and even leave your home. Learning to cope properly is important because many people resort to self-medication, which leads to addiction. Healthy ways to manage anxiety come in many forms, and each person needs to find what works for them. With that in mind, we share a few options for people to cope with social anxiety in healthy ways. (more…)

Multiple Media Use Tied to Depression, Anxiety

By Guest PostDecember 4, 2012Culture, Health, Mediaamerican youth, anxiety, cell phones, christopher hopwood, computer game, depression, mark becker, media multitasking, media use, mental health, michigan state university, multiple, playing, problem, reem alzahabi, social anxiety, symptom, text messaging, watching tv, web surfing

Using multiple forms of media at the same time – such as playing a computer game while watching TV – is linked to symptoms of anxiety and depression, scientists have found for the first time.

Michigan State University’s Mark Becker, lead investigator on the study, said he was surprised to find such a clear association between media multitasking and mental health problems. What’s not yet clear is the cause. (more…)

Does Social Anxiety Disorder Respond to Psychotherapy? Brain Study Says Yes

By Guest PostFebruary 14, 2011Culture, Healthbrain, brain electrical interactions, capital punishment, delta beta coupling, diane santesso, disorder, eegs, electroencephalograms, emotion, hamilton, louis schmidt, martin antony, medication, nervous system, neurological effects, ontario, ontario mental health foundation, physiologic change, psychotherapy, randi mccabe, real-time, rene sommer, same-sex marriage, social anxiety, vladimir miskovic

When psychotherapy is helping someone get better, what does that change look like in the brain? This was the question a team of Canadian psychological scientists set out to investigate in patients suffering from social anxiety disorder. Their findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association of Psychological Science.

Social anxiety is a common disorder, marked by overwhelming fears of interacting with others and expectations of being harshly judged. Medication and psychotherapy both help people with the disorder. But research on the neurological effects of psychotherapy has lagged far behind that on medication-induced changes in the brain. (more…)

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3 Options for Coping with Social Anxiety

Multiple Media Use Tied to Depression, Anxiety

Does Social Anxiety Disorder Respond to Psychotherapy? Brain Study Says Yes