anxiety
A look at anxiety in its many forms and manifestations; what is the nature of this specific pattern of extreme fear and worry?
Quiet the Noise
It is recommended that people have 7-9 hours of sleep each night. However, sleep and I have had an elusive relationship ever since I was in high school. I stayed awake at night due to family issues. Extremely anxious, I didn’t want to face the issues head-on. Instead, I sought an escape. I turned to Adult Swim at night and watched mostly anime. It was weird being the only one awake at night watching TV, but I found it comforting. It was easy for me to get lost in the storytelling and calm my worries.
By J. Davis Mallory5 months ago in Psyche
The Mental Health Apocalypse
THE NUMBERS THAT SHOULD ALARM EVERYONE 📊 One in five American adults experiences a mental health disorder in any given year. Among adolescents and young adults aged thirteen to twenty-five, rates of anxiety disorder have increased by approximately sixty percent over the past decade. Depression rates have doubled in the same period. Suicide rates among young people, which declined for most of the twentieth century as living standards improved, reversed direction in 2011 and have been climbing since, with the reversal correlating precisely with the widespread adoption of smartphones and social media among adolescents. Emergency department visits for mental health crises among children and teenagers increased by approximately fifty percent in the years surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and have not returned to pre-pandemic levels despite the resolution of the acute pandemic phase. These numbers are not statistical abstractions. They represent millions of specific young people experiencing specific suffering that impairs their development, their relationships, their education, their careers, and in thousands of cases each year, their continued survival 😢
By The Curious Writer5 months ago in Psyche
When The Cheese Moves: Protecting Your Mental Health During Times Of Change & Uncertainty
If you have ever studied business at tertiary level, you might be familiar with a book called Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson. You would be forgiven for thinking that the author would be psychic, as this book (and hence the metaphor of your cheese being moved) is heavily, unfairly, and relatably relevant today as it has ever been. Change is, and has always been constant. In these current times of economic and geopolitical change - uncertainty, tension and perhaps some pleasant surprises in the right direction means that the cheese is constantly being moved. The mouse has to expend more time and energy to find that displaced cheese in ensuring that satiety levels are met - same with us humans, as frustrating or as enlightening as that is. (Think of some other gourmet food if you don't like cheese for whatever reason.)
By Justine Crowley5 months ago in Psyche
The Collapse of the Metric Empire: Why the Era of the Biohacker is Dead.
The matte black titanium struck the aluminum bottom of my kitchen trash can with a pathetic, hollow clink. It was dead. My three-hundred-dollar biometric ring rested among wet coffee grounds and half-eaten banana peels. For three years, that tiny sensor had dictated my morning mood by assigning me a numeric score based on my heart rate variability. I stared at the garbage. I felt nothing but a terrifying, brilliant rush of freedom.
By The Chaos Cabinet5 months ago in Psyche
Finding the Right Path to Calm. AI-Generated.
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges worldwide. While occasional worry is a normal part of life, persistent anxiety can interfere with work, relationships, sleep, and overall well-being. Many people experience racing thoughts, excessive fear, physical tension, or difficulty concentrating when anxiety becomes overwhelming.
By Veronica Bennett5 months ago in Psyche
Why Your Mind Is Always Active but You Feel Emotionally Numb
You’re not sad. You’re not happy either. You’re just… running. Your brain is doing its thing — cataloguing tomorrow’s tasks, replaying a conversation from three days ago, calculating whether you said the wrong thing, jumping between tabs, between thoughts, between nothing in particular. It never really stops. But underneath all that activity, when you check in for something that actually feels like something — it’s quiet. Flat. Like a frequency that’s just not coming through.
By Apostolos Sotiriadis5 months ago in Psyche
When Someone Goes Quiet on You
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes not from what someone says to you — but from what they stop saying. You notice it first in small things. The texts that used to come in the morning, gone. The little check-ins, the jokes about nothing, the forwarded links. All of it just… stops. And somehow that absence takes up more space than any fight ever did. More space than raised voices or slammed doors or things said in anger that both of you pretended not to mean.
By Apostolos Sotiriadis5 months ago in Psyche
The Fear of Being Perceived. AI-Generated.
There is a peculiar kind of anxiety that many people experience but struggle to describe. It is not exactly social anxiety, insecurity, or shyness, though it overlaps with all three. It is the discomfort that arises from simply being noticed, observed, or mentally “held” in another person’s awareness. This phenomenon, often referred to informally as the fear of being perceived, belongs to the subcategory of social and self-conscious psychology. It explores the tension between identity, visibility, and emotional vulnerability.
By Kyle Butler5 months ago in Psyche
