One of the biggest things that helped me with anxiety is learning I’m a Highly Sensitive Person. Before this, I was overwhelmed by noise, activity, my emotions, sensations such as hunger and muscle tension. I thought of myself as an anxious person, a flawed individual with nothing to offer. After learning I have a disposition […]
3 Ways to look at negative thoughts
In my own history of anxiety, I’ve unnoticed come at the problem from different directions. One was through logic and reason, another through insight and awareness. Now as an artist it’s imagery and metaphor. It made me reflect on the different ways we relate to and cope with our hopes, fears and worries. In the […]
Seeing Impermanence to overcome anxiety.
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” Dan Gilbert These words of a psychologist point out our fundamental mistake we make when it comes to who and what we are. Anxiety, depression, low self-esteem. We think these are features that define who we are, and there is nothing we can do […]
The Social Anxiety of answering: Who are you and What do you do?
I have felt some social anxiety at describing myself to others. You know how it is, you meet a stranger, online or face to face. The first questions that will get asked are always the same. Who are you/ What do you do? You know it’s going to happen and our next struggle is to […]
Does medicine create mental illness?
I came across an article in the New York Times by T.M Lurhman, The Anxious Americans pointing out that America has become the most anxious country in the world. Spending vast amounts of money on anxiety medications. The real question is why. To be sure there’s a genetic vulnerability to anxiety, but that only governs […]
Is mobile technology threatening our social skills?
On my way home from London the carriage was almost quiet. Few people talked. They were either reading a paper, a book, or like myself engrossed in their phone, tablet, or laptop. But its not just here, technology has worked it’s way into our social life everywhere. We talk to each other keeping one eye […]