By Daisy Yuhas — 2019
Autism and OCD frequently accompany each other; scientists are studying both to understand how they differ
Read on www.scientificamerican.com
CLEAR ALL
When anxiety strikes, it prevents me from being the mother I want to be. I am not able to be present with my children. I am somewhere else, a captive to my thoughts. I’m supposed to be the grown-up, but I morph into a child—totally powerless and vulnerable.
When you experience mom guilt, remember . . . You are enough.
Health and wellness touch each of us differently. This is one person’s story.
Experts I spoke with for this story pointed to a couple of reasons professional athletes are particularly susceptible to mental health issues.
It’s no surprise that when a person gets a diagnosis of heart disease, cancer or some other life-limiting or life-threatening physical ailment, they become anxious or depressed.
2
Plus expert tips on how to manage each of them.
3
Here’s why it’s important to look out for all the ways anxiety can manifest in your body.
1
For many of my patients, and even myself, the recognition that anxiety can be its own toxic comfort has been a lightbulb moment. It can be unsettling to examine our thoughts and our behaviors closely.
“Because it is possible to create—creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self…—one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.”
It’s normal to feel anxious from time to time, but anxiety that disrupts your everyday life may indicate a disorder.