Many people in the world face symptoms such as nervousness, racing heart, chest pain, and agitation throughout their lives. These are the symptoms for chronic stress and anxiety, and in fact, anxiety is one of the most common mental health issues amongst Americans, with more than 20% of adults, each year are affected by this […]
Around 40 million Americans live with some sort of anxiety disorder, a number which is frightening. Anxiety disorder can range from GAD, which is an intensely worrying feeling that you have no control over, to panic disorder which is sudden episodes of extreme fear, trembling, shaking or sweating, accompanied with fast heart palpitations. It’s important […]
We all feel a little crazy sometimes (for me, “sometimes” means at least three times a day), and while we’re big proponents of therapy and other structured forms of mental health support here at The Frisky, there are times when limited funds or busy schedules make it tough to get professional help. In honor of […]
Odds are, you’re a worrier – or at the very least, someone really close to you is. In many ways, the average human life in 2015 is safer and easier and healthier than human life has ever been, and yet, most of us devote massive chunks of our energy worrying about all the bad stuff that […]
It is impossible for me to write about Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today, a collection of essays based on Broder’s once anonymous Twitter account @SoSadToday, without talking about myself and my own anxiety and depression. I feel weird and embarrassed by that, I can assure you, but onward. One of the more frustrating manifestations of […]
Greetings from zombie-land. That’s where I’m currently residing as I go through antidepressant withdrawal. It’s a horribly dizzying place, filled with bouts of insomnia, nausea and an episode of neverending flu. It’s not a place I recommend visiting, and yet, I’ve found myself here because I decided to get off of Paxil, the anti-anxiety drug […]
I remember my first panic attack in more detail than I remember losing my virginity or the first time I drove a car by myself. (I guess vivid terror of suddenly not being able to breathe really ingrains itself into your psyche.) It was 1998 and I was watching the “Psycho” remake with my family’s […]
When you’ve got ongoing depression and anxiety issues, you learn to take the good with the bad – especially as you muddle your way through finding a medication that works to calm the self-loathing thoughts and doomsday paranoia (at least for a little while). I was on a relatively low dose of Lexapro for years; I found it helped clear […]
