I first took beta blockers two years ago, when I was asked to give a eulogy. Terrible at public speaking on a good day, let alone at a funeral, my first instinct was to refuse to do it. I had made a ...

I recently took a personality test and decided I needed to change some things; some aspects of my personality seemed to be responsible for making me unhappy. A high level of neurotic anxiety was one ...

I’d always seen myself as shy. I often felt like an outsider. I didn’t speak up in class. I was criticized for this by others, but most of all, I chastised myself. Beating myself up about being ‘weird ...

It is impossible to get rid of anxiety because it exists to help us, says cognitive psychotherapist Owen O'Kane. Instead, he ...

“Anxiety has been a constant companion in my life. For as long as I can remember, it’s been there – whispering worst-case scenarios, conjuring disasters that never came, and feeding on every ...

“If you don’t have anxiety,” stand-up comedian Aparna Nancherla riffs onstage, “the way I would describe it is there’s, like, an edgy improv group in your brain and it just needs a one-word suggestion ...

When I’m working with someone who has OCD on exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), the evidence-based therapy for OCD, I start by helping them change their relationship with anxiety. No one ...

When he's not testing the latest phones or phone cameras, Andrew can normally be found with his own camera in hand or behind his drums or eating his stash of home-cooked food -- sometimes all at once.

Racing thoughts, restlessness, and sleep changes — these signs can mean different things. Here’s how people with bipolar disorder tell them apart. Both anxiety and mania (or hypomania) are common in ...