People Are Not Paying Attention to You or Your Social Anxiety – And This is Good News
When you have social anxiety, it is common to feel like everyone is noticing you and your mistakes. Yet the reality is often quite different: Everyone is too busy paying attention to themselves to pay attention to you. Still, when you have social anxiety, it is much...
Authenticity and Self-Awareness: Two Key Mentalities in Your Fight Against Anxiety
There is a lot of pressure on us to be something we’re not. While striving for goals is good, many of the pressures imposed on us by others and ourselves push us towards an ideal that is far from our authentic selves The problem with these goals set by outside...
How to Keep Yourself from Catastrophizing the Future
Thinking of worst-case scenarios is our brain’s survival mechanism. By thinking of the worst outcome, we can prepare for it and, hopefully, prevent it or prepare ourselves emotionally if it occurs. It feels like it puts us back in control in a situation that can feel...
What is Anxiety? A Way to Think About This Common Disorder
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges that affect men and women of all ages. Although it has dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of symptoms, it is usually described as a feeling of nervousness and worry that comes with physical symptoms such as...Why People Worry (and Why it Doesn’t Help)
Worrying, as an emotion, is often easy to justify. We tell ourselves that we should worry, because there is something we can claim to be fearful of: We worry about our partners coming home from work because there may be a car accident. We worry that we left the stove...Long Island Psychology
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