How to Help Someone with Anxiety: A Letter to Family & Friends
Last week, we asked the Anxiety Sisterhood what you want your friends and family to know about your life with anxiety, and you told us quite a lot. We tried to put it all together in letter form so you
Anxiety Symptom: Catastrophizing
(Amazing artwork by Natalie Dee) I have a headache. The kind that’s in your eyebrows and teeth and makes your eyes water. I know it’s my sinuses. Everyone is telling me (including my own rational brain) that I have a sinus
Caregiver Anxiety
Many Anxiety Sisters ask us for tips on how to deal with the overwhelming anxiety they experience as caregivers of elderly relatives, ill spouses, children with special needs, etc. As both of us have been caregivers over extended periods of
Eating and Anxiety: What Helped Me
Lots of Anxiety Sisters have been emailing me about my eating and anxiety blog series to ask "what helped you?" I won't keep you in suspense any longer--what helped me learn to manage my eating issues (and my anxiety) is
Eating and Anxiety, Part Three
I want to begin by thanking the many anxiety sisters who have responded to this blog series with statements like, "This is so me!" or "This is my story too!" Although I have been writing about my anxiety disorder for
Flu Anxiety
Last week, I came down with a nasty cold—clogged sinuses, sore throat, coughing—that kept me home for several days. Various friends and family members called to check on me, and each said a variation of the following: “You better see
Apology Anxiety
When you board a plane and need someone to stand up so that you can get to your seat, what do you do? If you are like me, you apologize to your seat mate. But, why apologize? That I have
Eating Disorders and Anxiety, Part Two
My first visit to Green Mountain at Fox Run (there have been 8 since) opened my eyes to a whole new perspective—an approach to weight loss and overall well-being that I had never previously considered. Are you ready for the
Eating Disorders and Anxiety, Part One
Like so many other Anxiety Sisters, I not only have anxiety disorder and depression (managed fairly well through medication and the strategies we write about on our blog), but also an eating disorder. While these may be diagnosed as three
Guiding Words vs. New Year’s Resolutions
Just as I was finally starting to believe I had survived the holiday season relatively unscathed—only the usual garden-variety anxiety with a smattering of depression—New Year’s Day rolls around, and my anxiety spikes. Why? Because January 1 is judgment day. It’s
