Test Anxiety
Most people feel at least some anxiety when taking tests. A certain level of stress actually keeps people alert and helps them perform at their optimum level. Overwhelming anxiety, however, hinders concentration, critical thinking, and decreases performance. When people focus on all the negative things that could go wrong when taking a test, anxiety increases, and your body releases adrenaline (your “fight or flight” response). This causes physical symptoms such as sweatin
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Stress is basically any change you have to adapt to. Good or bad, positive or negative, large or small, change causes stress, but it’s not all bad. Imagine feeling stress-free all the time; you might not get anything done or engage in life at all. If nothing ever changed, imagine how boring life would be. On the flipside, sometimes everything hits at once. Researchers have found that illnesses and mental health disorder symptoms are more likely to develop after experien
Child Anxiety & Parenting Styles
At a basic level, anxiety occurs when we do two things: (1) exaggerate or overestimate the risk, problem, or threat and (2) underestimate our ability to deal with it. Anxiety is the tense emotional state that happens when situations are unpredictable and have no guarantee. In Dr. Chansky’s book, “Freeing Your Child From Anxiety”, she describes research by Johns Hopkins University, which summarized over twenty studies of parenting factors associated with children. These factor
