The Anxiety Report

Each morning I review the news feeds that pile up in my Good Reader, and select a few for your breakfast. I try to make your Breakfast of Anxiety News, start with something sweet, and then onto the substantial material..

1. Disordered Personality is about a movie being made in India. “The film tries to show a psychiatric disorder called dissociative identity disorder (DID) or, as it was known earlier, multiple personality disorder (MPD).”
2. Neurotic Who Makes Scary World Her Banquet, is a Book Review. Patricia Pearson, author of A Brief History of Anxiety, is a woman who takes her fears, phobias, and makes something solid, a body of work — books, all related on some way with her experience with anxiety. An intersting quote “Ms. Pearson argues, in fact, that rationalism, intended to banish superstition and fear, has instead removed one of the most effective weapons against anxiety, namely religious faith and ritual.” Give it a try.
3. Harsh words may leave invisible scars on children. That should be obvious, right? Think about situations in your own life where you heard a child spoken to roughly, or perhaps that child was you. According to the article “Research conducted by Natalie Sachs-Ericsson at Florida State University suggest that people who were verbally abused as children grow up to be self-critical adults prone to depression and anxiety.” That should be so obvious to us.

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