Fighting the Memory War: A Battle Between Remembering and Forgetting Trauma
“Do you remember what happened?” is generally one of the first questions a person is asked after going through a traumatic event. This question can cause a grea...
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Fast-Paced Lifestyle Compromising Our Mental Health?
6AM: Alarm goes off 6AM-7:30 AM: Get ready for school and eat breakfast if lucky 8AM: Class begins 8AM-2:30PM: Finally done with classes! 2:30PM-5PM: Work 5PM-7...
Memories and Anxiety
Making memories is what makes life worth living. But what happens when you make memories during a traumatic event? Why do some people deal with these memories i...
Prescription Exercise: Using Exercise to Combat Anxiety
Anxiety As humans, it is important that we are able to make memories of events in our lives to be able to survive. In the case of anxiety, particularly strong m...
Calling All Parents: Your Role in Reducing Anxiety
Being a parent is one of the most influential roles you can hold in our society, but it is also proving to be one of the most difficult. These days, the books a...
Fear, Anxiety, and the HPA Axis
To begin it must be made evident that Fear and Anxiety are in a sense necessary. We as humans thrive as a species because we have this innate response to fearfu...
Anxiety and College Students: Finding a Balance
Everyone experiences stress at different times in their lives, whether it has to do with school, work, family, or just life in general. Stress isn’t always a ba...
How Stressful Memories Contribute to Anxiety
Think back to your most vivid memory. I would guess you can remember just about every detail about that situation. What time of day it was, where you were, what...
School Test = Bear Attack
We are living in a higher state of anxiety than we were biologically made for. Our brains were made for us to remember stressful situations that would help us t...
How Stress Can Lead to Obesity
We’ve all heard that stress can lead to weight gain, but how does it really do that? Chronic stress causes many harmful cycles that can lead to this excess weig...