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Staying Grounded: The 3-3-3 Rule for Anxiety 

Clear Behavioral Health

The 3-3-3 rule for anxiety can help you calm yourself when your anxiety spikes [1]. Anxiety is a common condition in the United States, with about 3.1% of the population having a diagnosed anxiety disorder [2]. Anxiety coping strategies: the 3-3-3 rule, mindfulness, and more. References: Brown, S.

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Test Anxiety – How to Calm Your Nerves Before a Big Test

Clear Behavioral Health

You might be thinking that test anxiety is normal, although pre-test nerves are common; however, clinical testing anxiety is a psychological condition. People who experience generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have a greater chance of developing testing anxiety. Related: What is Anxiety? have GAD [2].

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Reclassifying Psychopathology

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Broader dimensions (such as internalizing) are at the base of the hierarchy, related issues (such as major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder) are clumped together in the middle, and specific symptoms make up the tip. But HiTOP was built using the DSM constructs.

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Transform Your Anxiety With This Single Step

The Anxiety Guy

This technique is a cornerstone of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a widely recognized and effective treatment for anxiety disorders. To transform your anxiety, we must first identify these connecting ideas and examine them. Another way to transform your anxiety is “thought substitution.”

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. None of the problems we think about when we think about mental disorder—mainly depression and the anxiety disorders—are explained by psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm, and not for want of trying. Proteins keep us alive.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

Then, as the DSM revised its classificationsreplacing multiple personality disorder with dissociative identity disorder the diagnosis largely disappeared. Sarah and I became interested in a similar question: Why, at this particular moment, did social anxiety disorder become an epidemic? They lack skin in the game.