How to Calm Anxiety: 12 Techniques That Actually Work
Forget counting to ten. Here are evidence-based techniques that genuinely help when anxiety has its claws in you.
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Anxiety
Anxiety
That fun thing where your brain decides to rehearse every worst-case scenario at 3am.
Social Anxiety: When Every Interaction Feels Like an Exam
Social anxiety isn't shyness. It's your nervous system treating small talk like mortal combat. Here's how to work with it.
How to Stop Overthinking Everything
Your brain is solving problems that don't exist. Here's how to break the cycle of rumination and analysis paralysis.
Panic Attacks: What's Happening and How to Cope
Your heart's racing, you can't breathe, you think you're dying. You're not. Here's what's actually happening.
Intrusive Thoughts: Why Your Brain Suggests Terrible Things
That horrifying thought that just popped into your head? Everyone has them. Here's why.
Your 3am Anxiety Spiral Is Not a Character Flaw
That nightly rehearsal of everything that could go wrong? It's your brain's threat detection system working overtime. Here's how to turn the volume down.
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