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HOW BDD AFFECTS LIVES – SOCIAL AVOIDANCE, PROBLEMS AT WORK, AND SUICIDE: IAN’S EXPERIENCE: “I PULL MYSELF TOGETHER”

While people with more severe BDD may, like Ian, be unable to function because of their symptoms, others, like Carl, function well despite their emotional pain. Carl was an intelligent man in his late thirties with a good sense of humor. He worked as a partner in a law firm, where he’d been very successful [...]

THE VERDICT ON DREAMS

While theories abound as to the reasons for and the significance of dreaming, the verdict on dreams—whether they hold the key to our inner being, or whether they will prove to be mere electrical storms, like a sort of cerebral aurora borealis—lies in the future. Our main concern here, however, is with their effect on [...]

HYPNOSIS AND SLEEP

Highway hypnosis. Since hypnosis is not sleep, what is its relationship to sleep? When a person is driving a long distance on a highway, his eyes are focused only on the highway; he cannot look at anything beyond the highway for more than a few seconds. His eyes and his attention have to come back [...]

PAIN AND DISTRESS: THE AGGRAVATION OF PAIN BY DISTRESS

The little boy is playing. He falls and skins his knees, He screams. In an instant his whole being is overwhelmed with pain. For him there is only pain, his whole body, his whole world. Mother seizes him and holds him to her, kissing him on the cheeks. In a moment his distress is calmed [...]

THE NATURE OF STRESS

What is stress? Sky-rocketing interest rates. An unfaithful husband. Problems with the tax-man. Children on drugs. An impossible boss. An unwanted pregnancy. If you believe that such matters are stress, we are not on the same wavelength in understanding what stress is all about. ‘I know what stress is. I can feel it.’ No. You [...]

MEDITATION FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS TREATMENT: BREATHING DURING MEDITATION

As the meditation process unfolds, some people become anxious when they notice their breathing slowing down. Sometimes it feels as if you are hardly breathing at all. This can be disconcerting at first, especially for people who have this fear. There is nothing to worry about. The slowing down of our breathing indicates we are [...]

ANXIETY DISORDERS: FEAR OF DEATH

Heart symptoms The most common fear we have is that we will die from a heart attack. Besides having a rapid heartbeat, some people experience palpitations or ‘missed’ heartbeats. They are not dangerous, and will not hurt us in any way. The more we fear them, the more adrenalin is released, so the cycle continues. [...]

THERAPIES OF ANXIETY DISORDERS: OUR SILENCE

Not only do we live in fear of the disorder, we live in fear of other people knowing we have it. Many of us live in silence in case our employer, friends and family find out. This silence is passed on from generation to generation. As we begin to understand our disorder, many of us [...]

POWER OVER PANIC/SECONDARY CONDITIONS: THE ATTACKS

Everyone who experiences spontaneous panic attack remembers their first attack: where they were, what they were doing and how they felt. There is no other experience with which to compare it. The panic attack usually appears to have little or nothing to do with any personal or environmental situation. Even if we are very distressed [...]