How to Combat Your Anxiety, One Step at a Time [nytimes.com]

Alicia Doktor 12/22/174:00 AM

Earlier this year, I suffered my first major panic attack. For days afterward, my heart would race and my mind would fill with doomsday visions as I worried about everything around me, including whether I’d have more panic attacks and if I’d ever be able to stop them. '

Knowing that it wasn’t just me, however, was strangely reassuring.

“Anxiety disorders are the most common condition in psychiatry,” said Dr. Naomi Simon, professor of psychiatry at N.Y.U. School of Medicine and director of the Anxiety and Complicated Grief Program at N.Y.U. Langone Health. Some 40 million people aged 18 or older in the United States, or 18 percent of the population, will suffer from an anxiety disorder each year, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. In the course of a lifetime, that rate goes up to 28.8 percent of the American public.

[For more on this story by Jen Doll, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...-at-a-time.html?_r=0]

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Hilary Jacobs HendelMember

I have to rant for a minute about this article as it hits my current pet peeve squarely on the nose and is one of the many reasons I felt compelled to write a book on emotions and healing. The ideas in the article are fine and helpful but I’m still SHOCKED and APPALLED that the connection between anxiety and core emotions is not addressed or even mentioned in this article. The primary way I and my AEDP colleagues help ourselves and others with anxiety is by working to find the underlying core emotions, i.e. sadness, fear, anger, disgust, joy, excitement and/or sexual excitement. Anxiety is first and foremost a signal that core emotions and conflicts about emotions is underlying. By tending to core emotions anxiety reliably diminishes and often goes away. Hopefully the Change Triangle book, “It’s Not Always Depression,” will reach The NY Times health editors. Rant over! Thanks for listening 🙏🏻😄 Happy holidays and happy new year to all. May 2018 bring harmony, hope and healing.

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