Because panic and anxiety are so much a part of recovery from depression or any mental illness, I added “panic and anxiety” as a topic to the discussion boards of Group Beyond Blue on Beliefnet’s Community site. To visit, click here for the homepage of Group Beyond Blue, and then click on “Discussions” to the…

Beyond Blue reader Larry Parker has written a brave, raw account of a recent panic attack. He has used his gift of language to describe for others exactly how it feels to be trapped by a brain’s disease. To get to his journal entry, click here. Following is an excerpt: And then I lost it.…

You can find Therapydoc’s original post, “Coping/Managing Stress and Anxiety,” by clicking here. I have excerpted parts of it below. Someone once wrote in asking for my personal secrets, my coping strategies, not just a lot of psycho-babble. How do I handle stress? This person, I happen to know, has a really high stress professional…

I’ve said this in prior posts: I don’t do stores in between Halloween and New Year’s. It’s not good for my health. So I’m not shopping today. I’m doing the second most dangerous activity to my health … traveling. Therefore, I don’t have an interview for today. Sorry. Next week I will resume with an…

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