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anxiety

Choosing Between Calm and Creative

July 8, 2011
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I wake up every morning with one goal above all others: to live the day with a sense of calm. I prize feeling calm over feeling happy. Calm is my happiness. However, remaining calm sometimes keeps me from achieving another state of mind: the creative state. Creativity is born from chaos and uncertainty.

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On Giving Up Caffeine

March 9, 2011
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Late last year, my anxiety became so unbearable that I found it was affecting my ability to be myself. Normally a confident young woman, I was suddenly afraid to speak in front of groups. Even normal, everyday tasks like driving were making me incredibly anxious, to the point that I was going out of my way to avoid doing them.

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Alleviating Information-Induced Anxiety

July 9, 2010
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If you Google the phrase “information anxiety”, you will find that scholars have written books and papers about a new stressor: the feeling that you constantly need to pursue the latest information, the sense that you are overwhelmed by too much information, or the inability to organize or manage information.

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