Tag Archives: anxiety

Anticipatory anxiety is not the same as flight anxiety

In anticipatory anxiety, you imagine the future. You experience an imaginary airplane, not a real one. Stress depends upon imagination. In flight anxiety, [...]

30/10/2016

GAD

Having GAD — generalized anxiety disorder — is like having poison ivy. Though it bothers you, the best thing you can do is not scratch it; if [...]

12/10/2016

Control Means Having a Way Out

When you drive your car, if someone comes at you, you know you will hit the brakes or turn the wheel. You have a plan that you hope works; actually you [...]

25/09/2016

Where Do Anxiety and Panic Come From?

The autonomic nervous system that regulates emotions has two parts: one is totally mature at birth, and the other part only starts to physically develop at [...]

25/09/2016

Keeping “What If” Thoughts Separate

Years ago, I went to Venice with a friend. You may have seen St. Marks Square in movies It is a huge square with outdoor cafes, a tower, and – at one [...]

25/09/2016

Origins Of Flight Anxiety

Anxiety – flight or otherwise – is about our psychological makeup. Initially, we see things in terms of good and bad, because that is the way [...]

17/09/2016

Anxiety And Logic

Anxiety, if it were based on pure logic, would recognize that – in spite of all the risk factors you cite – when compared with either driving [...]

09/09/2016

USA TODAY Article on Flight Anxiety by Gary Stoller

Gary Stoller, who writes on aviation for USA Today, interviewed SOAR grads Angel Miller, Tracy Leskey, and Marci Smith for this article.The article leads [...]

09/09/2016

Psychoanalysis Is Great But It Doesn’t Change Flight Anxiety

Psychoanalysis – which I’ve been trained in – is great for developing insight. It increases what we are now are calling [...]

06/09/2016

Persistent Anxiety About Turbulence

Recently, I’ve been focusing on why anxiety about turbulence can persist. Context has a lot to do with it. In a context where you feel secure, [...]

31/08/2016

Control And Anxiety

I’ve often been amazed when people don’t accept the help that it took years to develop and perfect, in preference to doing something on their [...]

31/08/2016

What Is Flight Anxiety All About Anyway?

Let’s start at the very beginning. We get our ability to calm ourselves several months AFTER we are born. Calming ones self is not innate. Getting [...]

31/08/2016

What Does Anticipatory Anxiety Mean?

Here are some of the things people think anticipatory anxiety means. ‘This feeling could be an omen.’ ‘If I am feeling this much anxiety [...]

31/08/2016

Generalized Anxiety. Claustrophobia. Are These Buzzwords That Smokescreen The Problem?

This week, a client who has long been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and claustrophobia, had a breakthrough. He discovered fear. He became [...]

31/08/2016

Deep-Rooted Anticipatory Anxiety

Freud wrote about it, and what he said is interesting. He said, the problem with trauma is, the first time you have one, since you never had one before, it [...]

31/08/2016

Mindsight

Can a person have high anxiety – or panic – without any awareness of what triggers it? Yes. And, current thinking is that this can take place [...]

30/08/2016