Category: Anxiety

Anxiety Mashable Shopping Shopping Linkshare Sleep Weighted Blanket

Shopping for a weighted blanket? Walmart has them on sale for as low as $59.99 — that’s over $100 off.

sudshr47 January 16, 2019

2019 really just might be the year that people stop complaining about being single.
Weighted blankets, while not new to the world of therapy and disabilities, have mainstream folk practicing self care in a way that probably wasn’t expected to be back…

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Anxiety Health Social Good Suicide Prevention Teens

How one newspaper is helping kids during a teen suicide epidemic

sudshr47 September 12, 2018

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During the past several years, my colleagues at the Deseret News have researched, reported, and highlighted the challenges of America’s growing suicide and opioid epidemic. 

Like many journalists around the country, we discovered that the gut-wrenching stories of promising lives ended in tragedy were all too common. In our state, it was particularly severe: between 2007 and 2015, the youth suicide rate nearly quadrupled, with 44 teens in Utah dying by suicide in 2015. Preliminary data shows that 42 died by suicide in 2017. One high school alone experienced seven suicides in one year.

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Animals Anxiety Crocodile Culture

Anxious crocodile swims with a pool noodle in the Florida Keys

sudshr47 August 22, 2018

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Everyone wants to stay safe when they’re taking a dip in the water — even crocodiles, it seems.

After a photo of the world’s most anxious (I’m assuming) crocodile using a pool noodle in the Florida Keys was posted on Instagram, local news outlets have been marveling at this unusual sight.

“Crock on a float,” reads Victor F. Perez’s concise Instagram caption.

Crock on a float #keylargo #rockemnreelem #floating #keyslife

A post shared by Victor F Perez (@vfpkeys) on Aug 6, 2018 at 5:16pm PDT

Perez reportedly snapped a photo of the crocodile in Key Largo earlier this month, when he spotted it near the 105.5 mile marker in Bayside, according to Perez’s comments on his Instagram post. Read more…

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Anxiety Depression Google Assistant google home Media News Stress

Google Assistant’s latest feature delivers just the ‘good news’

sudshr47 August 21, 2018

You’re not the only one feeling run down by the news of the day. The folks at Google apparently believe we could all use a dose of good news, at times, too. The company today announced it’s testing a new Google Assistant feature called “Tell me something good” that will allow users to hear a […]

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Anxiety Culture Identity Online Identities Social Media

I’m way cooler on the internet than I am in person, and it gives me anxiety

sudshr47 June 20, 2018

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This post is part of Me, online, Mashable’s ongoing series digging into online identities.

“Chill the fuck out,” my internet self is constantly shouting to my real-life self.

See, I exist as two personalities: internet me and real-life me. Don’t we all? Living in a world of constant connection has led to these funhouse mirror versions of ourselves — they look like us but they’re slightly distorted, exaggerated, never quite shaping into a distinguishable human form. 

With social media, the funhouse effect is even more amplified. In many cases those identities become proxies for our real-life selves. The internet me interacts with hundreds, if not thousands, of people every day. Real-life me? Well, real-life me would love nothing more than a couple hours of silence and maybe, on some days, to speak only with the person delivering my Seamless.  Read more…

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Anxiety Anxious Rapper Mental Health Music Social Good

I created a rapping alter ego to deal with my soul-crushing anxiety

sudshr47 May 27, 2018

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“I will send an ambulance if you really want me to.” 

These were the words I heard over the phone, as I lay crumpled on the bathroom floor. I was in high school, at a party, and I had just tried marijuana for the first time. My chest was pounding, and I was convinced I was having a heart attack. Annoyingly, the 911 operator did not share my sense of urgency. In fact, she said marijuana-induced panic attacks were common and that this “didn’t qualify as an emergency.” And, to my great surprise, I did not die that night in 2009.

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Anxiety Dogs Mashable Shopping pet tech Pets

Help your constantly barking dog chill out with the iCalmPet speaker

sudshr47 April 6, 2018

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Have you ever considered that your dog, um, doesn’t have the same taste in music as you? You may prefer to hear the same Ariana Grande song for literal hours on end, but your dog may wish you were taking requests. 

Here’s why: Canine anxiety is a real thing. Yes, you love your fur baby to death, but there are times when you wish he or she would just chill TF out. While a dog might be barking what seems like 24/7 and at nothing, it doesn’t always mean that he or she never learned how to behave — it may legitimately be anxiety induced. (Other anxiety symptoms include growling, aggression, excessive panting, whimpering, and going to the bathroom inside.) And thinking about those pure angels being stressed has me hella stressed.  Read more…

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Anxiety Depression Fmri Qeeg Social Good

We’re getting close to a solution for one devastating aspect of antidepressants

sudshr47 March 30, 2018

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A prescription for an antidepressant is hope. It can also be a guessing game. 

“Do I feel different? Do I feel better?” Nausea, weight gain, and sexual side effects — those can hit right away. But it can take weeks to feel a change in mood, then another few weeks to tell if an antidepressant is actually doing any good.

Now imagine this future: You walk into a psychiatrist’s office. They swab inside your cheek, or put sensors on your head, and then prescribe you the right drug. No trial and error. No false starts. Just an antidepressant that works with minimal side effects.

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Managing stress is a learned skill and this online class can help you get started

sudshr47 March 5, 2018

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