Have you ever noticed that your heart rate increases in stressful situations? Or that your palms sweat when you face a formidable event or task? If so, you’re experiencing anxiety—the way your body naturally responds to stress. We’ve all used the word “anxiety” to describe that general feeling of unease, nervousness, or worry. Often, it’s that feeling that builds in response to an important upcoming event, or to one with an unpredictable outcome. Everyone deals with anxiety because it’s an inherent component of the way our brains respond to perceived dangers. Even though those dangers aren’t always real, our bodies’ responses are. Reducing Situational Anxiety If your anxiousness is related…

Life is full of challenges and when you have to deal with things like depression, it can be even harder. Having friends, going to work, and dealing with life can feel hard, even getting out of bed can be a struggle for someone living in depression. If you have depression and you need to cope with it and learn to live a better life, here are some things you can do to help you along your journey: Support One of the most important things that you can do to help you with your depression is to find a social support group that will be there for you. This can be…

Emotions happen and they come over and over again. Changing your emotions can be hard and in order to do this, you have to be able to change your behaviors. Some people will respond to their emotions negatively and if you are easily aggravated or negative then you will always expect things to go wrong in your life. You may be someone that is bitter by all of the things that have happened and so you automatically respond negatively when life gets hard. How do you become happy? How long do you have to pretend to be happy to actually feel it? Being positive can help you to change your…

When you live a life of stress, it can cause you all kinds of mental and physical problems. The best thing that you can do in your life is to release your stress. This can be hard, but you have to learn to do that. Nature Go out in nature and spend time. Doing this can take away your stress. Walk barefoot in the grass, have a picnic, or even just go for a sim. Exercise Take time each day to exercise your body. When you do this, it can take away your stress and make you healthier. This advice is easy, but you can also make a list of…

Bullying is a huge problem today. While it was something limited to the schoolyard in decades past, bullying has found new avenues to exhibit itself in modern society. It could be a co-worker or a boss, or someone online. It could even be a family member. There is no reason to allow this behavior to cripple you. It may be hard to learn to stand up for yourself but failing to do so will have you pegged as a target your entire life. Here are 10 ways to end and recover from bullying: Tell someone. The most important thing you can do to end bullying is to tell someone. This…