Breast cancer is scary, but having depression is, or can be, much harder to deal with. This I know firsthand. While that is my personal experience, I’ve also heard it from other people. The reasons for this difference are many. Breast cancer has always been disfiguring and frightening, with fewer good outcomes in the past than there are now. Treatment options are better today and it’s no longer a guaranteed fatal illness. (ten year survival[…]
There was a recent online article in Laddersby Monica Torres on what Americans think the perfect day looks like. She reports on a survey of 2,000 Americans done for the US Highbush Blueberry Council and conducted by One Poll. I don’t know the assortment of people in the 2,000 respondents, who’s in that group, how to best describe them. I don’t know how this organization came behind this type of survey question; one can only[…]
Today I’m going to focus on a request submitted by a reader of my website blog who asks about performance anxiety and panic attacks. Those are very good questions and common in those who have depression. First let’s think about the general topic of anxiety – a feeling of excessive apprehension, nervousness and worry about future events or activities. The depth of the anxiety, how long it lasts, and how often it occurs is out[…]
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