Anxiety Panic Attacks and Intrusive Thoughts
Articles about the nature of anxiety, panic attacks, and intrusive thoughts. Practical CBT techniques for managing anxiety and stopping mental rumination.
Hypochondria - Why You're Always Looking for Symptoms of Serious Illnesses and How to Stop Googling Diagnoses
Hypochondria is a hypersensitive brain microscope that blows up physiological noise into a catastrophe. Four CBT techniques: digital quarantine, alternative list of causes, legalization of bodily noise, and abandoning checking behavior.
Disturbing Images in Your Head How to Stop Fearing Intrusive Thoughts and Why They Don't Make You a Monster
Intrusive thoughts are experienced by 90% of healthy people — they are frightening precisely because they contradict your values. Four CBT techniques: non-suppression, cognitive defusion, contrast filter, and the 'passengers on the bus' technique.
I Feel Like I'm Dying: How a Panic Attack Works and How to Quickly Stop an Attack
Panic attack is an alarm system glitch, not a heart attack. Four CBT techniques for coping: paradoxical intention, decatastrophizing symptoms, box breathing, and temperature grounding.
Constant Anxiety for No Reason: How to Stop the 'What If...' Mental Loop
Generalized anxiety is a hyperactive evolutionary alarm system, not a mental defect. Four CBT techniques: worry time, dividing anxiety into productive/unproductive, decatastrophizing, and 5-4-3-2-1 grounding.