Anxiety & Nervous System
Relationship OCD (ROCD): Doubt That Won’t Quit
Relationship OCD, often shortened to ROCD, is the OCD theme where your mind fixates on your relationship or partner and floods you with relentless, distressing…
What to Expect from ERP Therapy for OCD
ERP therapy for OCD, short for Exposure and Response Prevention, is the treatment where you gradually and willingly face the things that trigger your obsessions…
Pure O OCD: The OCD With Hidden Compulsions
Pure O OCD, short for purely obsessional OCD, is the common name for a form of obsessive compulsive disorder that shows up as a stream…
Real Event OCD: When Guilt Will Not Let Go
Real event OCD is the theme of OCD that fixes obsessive guilt and doubt onto something that actually happened in your past, and it keeps…
Shortness of Breath Lying Down: Is It Anxiety?
Shortness of breath when lying down is the unsettling sense that you cannot get a full breath once your head hits the pillow, a feeling…
Somatic Anxiety: When You Feel It in Your Body
Somatic anxiety is anxiety you feel mainly through your body rather than through worried thoughts, a chest that tightens, a heart that races or pounds,…
Stress Hives: Why Anxiety Shows Up on Your Skin
Stress hives are raised, itchy welts, a form of urticaria, that appear or worsen when emotional stress sets off the body’s histamine and nervous system…
Does Caffeine Cause Anxiety? What to Know
Does caffeine cause anxiety? Not quite in the way most people fear. Caffeine does not, on its own, create an anxiety disorder. What it does…
Contamination OCD: Signs, the Cycle, and How Treatment Helps
Contamination OCD is the part of OCD that turns an ordinary feeling of “not clean” into something that can take over a whole day. It…
Window of Tolerance: What It Is & How to Widen Yours
The window of tolerance is the range of nervous-system activation within which you can think clearly, feel your feelings, stay connected to other people, and…