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How Your Thinking Affects Panic Attacks
The way you think can either worsen or improve panic attacks and emotional balance generally. These examples will show you how to think more calmly.
The Ten Commandments for Parents
All the help books in the world can't prepare you for the real thing...
Overcoming Insecurity in Relationships
"If he's quiet I actually start panicking! I'm thinking: What's he planning? Is he going to finish with me? Has he met someone else? If I don't know exactly where he is I get suspicious. He constantly has to reassure me. What can I do?"
5 Tasks to Overcome Fear of Abandonment
"I used to have this recurring nightmare. I'd be standing on a rain swept street corner - utterly alone - totally abandoned, lost...I always wondered why I had that dream. Then one day, it happened for real. My ma walked out on all of us!"
Am I an Alcoholic?
"Am I an alcoholic?" Lionel asked me with a tinge of desperation. I studied his face. Broken veins, dark under-eye circles, sunken cheeks. Lionel was thirty.
Inflate Your Dating Confidence
Dave felt uncertain about his looks, he thought his conversation was boring and felt he might run out of things to say. He reminded himself that women find confident men attractive. Somehow this thought made him feel even worse. And he knew he was thinking too much. The trouble was he'd known (even through the alcoholic haze) that Sue was the kind of woman he could really get to like. He sat waiting...
5 Simple Mind Tricks To Increase Your Self-Belief
A knot of anxiety tightened in my stomach... I knew I had to get more focussed – and quickly. But how?
Stop Being So Defensive!
If we're caught in an avalanche, it's a natural instinct to adopt the defensive posture and make like a foetus. But being emotionally defensive as a general strategy is self-destructive.
How to Improve Your Mood
Chronic moodiness can be a symptom of prolonged stress (in which case dealing with the stress should make you less moody), and blood sugar imbalance or hormonal fluctuations can also affect mood. But it's also true to say that moodiness can become a way of life, a habit. And whatever the cause of our moodiness, we can all get better at managing our emotions.
