Alprazolam Treating Anxiety and Panic Disorders – Overview

Alprazolam is a prescription. Medication used to treat anxiety and panic disorders.Alprazolam belongs to a group of drugs called benzodiazepines.These work by lowering abnormal excitement in the brain, Alprazolam, comes in tablet and oral solution forms and is usually taken two or three times a day with or without food Common side effects of alprazolam include sleepiness lightheadedness, tiredness and loss of coordination.Alprazolam can also cause drowsiness.Do not drive or operate heavy machinery until you know how alprazolam affects you Take this medication only if it is prescribed for you by your healthcare provider For RxWiki.I’m Stephen Lozano.

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OCD and Anxiety Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #29

Ever heard a really good joke about polio? Or made a casual reference to someone having hepatitis? Or maybe teased your buddy by saying he has muscular dystrophy? Of course you have never done that, because you are not a terrible person. You’d never make fun of someone for having a physical illness, but folks make all kinds of offhand remarks about people having mental illnesses and never give it a second thought. How often have you heard a person say that someone’s psycho, or schizo, or bipolar, or OCD? I can pretty much guarantee that the people who used those terms had no idea what they actually meant. We’ve talked about how psychological disorders and the people who have them have often been stigmatized. But at the same time, we tend to minimize those disorders, using them as nicknames for things that people do, think, or say, that may not exactly be universal, but are still basically healthy. And we all do it, but only because we don’t really understand those conditions. But that’s why we’re here, because as we go deeper into psychological disorders, we get a clearer understanding of their symptoms, types, causes, and the perspectives that help explain them. And some of the most common disorders have their root in an unpleasant mental state that’s familiar to us all: anxiety. It’s a part of being human, but for some people it can develop into intense fear, and paralyzing dread, and ultimately turn into full-fledged anxiety disorder. Defining psychological disorders again: a deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional pattern of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that interferes with the ability to function in a healthy way. So when it comes to anxiety, that definition is the difference between the guy you probably called phobic because he didn’t like Space Mountain as much as you did, and the person who truly can’t leave their house for fear of interacting with others. It’s the difference between the girl who’s teased by her friends as being OCD because she does her laundry every night and the girl who has to wash her hands so often that they bleed. Starting today, you’re going to understand all of those terms you’ve been using. We commonly equate anxiety with fear, but anxiety disorders aren’t just a matter of fear itself. A key component is also what we do to get rid of that fear. Say someone almost drowned as a kid and is now afraid of water. A family picnic at the river may cause that anxiety to bubble up, and to cope, they may stay sequestered in the car, less anxious but probably still unhappy while the rest of the family is having fun. So, in clinical terms, anxiety disorders are characterized not only by distressing, persistent anxiety but also often by the dysfunctional behaviors that reduce that anxiety. At least a fifth of all people will experience a diagnosable anxiety disorder of some kind at some point in their lives. That is a lot of us. So I want to start out with a condition that used to be categorized as an anxiety disorder but is now considered complex enough to be in a class by itself, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or OCD. You probably know that condition is characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, which become obsessions, which are sometimes accompanied by actions, which become compulsions. And it is a great example of a psychological disorder that could use some mental-health myth busting. Being neat, and orderly, and fastidious does not make you OCD. OCD is a debilitating condition whose sufferers take normal behaviors like, washing your hands, or double checking that you turned off the stove and perform them compulsively. And they often use these compulsive, even ritualistic behaviors to relieve intense and unbearable anxiety. So, soon they’re scrubbing their hands every five minutes, or constantly checking the stove, or counting the exact number of steps they take everywhere they go. If you’re still unclear about what it means for disorders to be deviant, distressful and dysfunctional, OCD might help you understand. Because it is hard to keep a job, run a household, sit still, or do much of anything if you feel intensely compelled to run to the kitchen twenty times an hour. And both the thoughts and behaviors associated with OCD are often driven by a fear that is itself obsessive, like if you don’t go to the kitchen right now your house will burn down and your child will die which makes the condition that much more distressing and self-reinforcing. There are treatments that help OCD including certain kinds of psychotherapy and some psychotropic drugs. But the key here is that it is not a description for your roommate who cleans her bathroom twice a week, or the guy in the cubicle next to you, who only likes to use green felt tip pens. And even though OCD is considered its own unique set of psychological issues, the pervasive senses of fear, worry, and loss of control that often accompany it, have a lot in common with other anxiety disorders. The broadest of these is Generalized Anxiety Disorder or GAD. People with this condition tend to feel continually tense and apprehensive, experiencing unfocused, negative, and out-of-control feelings. Of course feeling this way occasionally is common enough, but feeling it consistently for over six months – the length of time required for a formal diagnosis – is not. Folks with GAD worry all the time and are frequently agitated and on edge, but unlike some other kinds of anxiety, patients often can’t identify what’s causing the anxiousness, so they don’t even know what to avoid. Then there’s Panic Disorder, which affects about 1 in 75 people, most often teens and young adults. It’s calling card is Panic Attacks or sudden episodes of intense dread or sudden fear that come without warning. Unlike the symptoms of GAD which can be hard to pin down, Panic Attacks are brief, well-defined, and sometimes severe bouts of elevated anxiety. And if you’ve ever had one, or been with someone who has, you know that they call these attacks for good reason. They can cause chest pains and racing heartbeat, difficulty breathing and a general sense that you’re going crazy or even dying. It’s as awful as it sounds. We’ve talked a lot about the body’s physiological fight or flight response and that’s definitely part of what’s going on here, even though there often isn’t an obvious trigger. There may be a genetic pre-disposition to panic disorder, but persistent stress or having experienced psychological trauma in the past can also set you up for these attacks. And because the attacks themselves can be downright terrifying, a common trigger for panic disorder is simply the fear of having another panic attack. How’s that for a kick in the head? Say you have a panic attack on a bus, or you find yourself hyperventilating in front of dozens of strangers with nowhere to go to calm yourself down, that whole ordeal might make you never want to be in that situation again, so your anxiety could lead you to start avoiding crowded or confined places. At this point the initial anxiety has spun of into a fear of anxiety which means, welcome you’ve migrated into another realm of anxiety disorder, Phobias. And again this is a term that’s been misused for a long time to describe people who, say, they don’t like cats, or are uncomfortable on long plane trips. Simply experiencing fear or discomfort doesn’t make you phobic. In clinical terms, phobias are persistent, irrational fears of specific objects, activities, or situations, that also, and this is important, leads to avoidance behavior. You hear a lot about fears of heights, or spiders, or clowns, and those are real things. They’re specific phobias that focus on particular objects or situations. For example, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland is a seven-thousand meter span that crosses the Chesapeake Bay, if you want to get to or from Eastern Maryland that’s pretty much the only way to do it, at least in a car, but there are thousands of people who are so afraid of crossing that bridge that they simply can’t do it. So, to accommodate this avoidance behavior, driver services are available. For $25 people with Gephyrophobia, a fear of bridges, can hire someone to drive themselves, and their kids, and dogs, and groceries across the bridge in their own car, while trying not to freak out. But other phobias lack such specific triggers, what we might think of as social phobia, currently known as social anxiety disorder, is characterized by anxiety related to interacting or being seen by others, which could be triggered by a phone call, or being called on in class, or just thinking about meeting new people. So you can probably see at this point how anxiety disorders are related and how they can be difficult to tease apart. The same thing can be said about what we think causes them. Because much in the same way anxiety can show up as both a feeling like panic, and a thought, like is my kitchen on fire, there are also two main perspectives on how we currently view anxiety as a function of both learning and biology. The learning perspective suggests that things like, conditioning, and observational learning and cognition, all of which we’ve talked about before best explain the source of our anxiety. Remember our behaviorist friend, John B. Watson and his conditioning experiments with poor little Albert, by making a loud scary noise every time you showed the kid a white rat, he ended up conditioning the boy to fear any furry object, from bunnies, to dogs, to fur coats. That conditioning used two specific learning processes to cement itself in Little Albert’s young mind. Stimulus Generalization, expanded or generalized his fear of the rat to other furry objects, the same principle holds true if you were, like, attacked by your neighbours mean parrot and subsequently fear all birds. But then the anxiety is solidified through reinforcement, every time you avoid or escape a feared situations, a pair of fuzzy slippers or a robin on the street, you ease your anxiety, which might make you feel better temporarily, but it actually reinforces your phobic behavior, making it stronger. Cognition also influences our anxiety, whether we interpret a strange noise outside as a hungry bear, or a robber, or merely the wind, determines if we roll-over and keep snoring, or freak out and run for a kitchen knife. And we might also acquire anxiety from other people through observational learning. A parent who’s terrified of water may end up instilling that fear in their child by violently snatching them away from kiddie pools or generally acting anxious around park fountains and duck ponds. But there’re also equally important biological perspectives. Natural selection, for instance, might explain why we seem to fear certain potentially dangerous animals, like snakes, or why fears of heights or closed in spaces are relatively common. It’s probably true that our more wary ancestors who had the sense to stay away from cliff edges and hissing serpents were more likely to live another day and pass along their genes, so this might explain why those fears can persist, and why even people who live in places without poisonous snakes would still fear snakes anyway. And then you got the genetics and the brain chemistry to consider. Research has shown for example that identical twins, those eternal test subjects, are more likely to develop phobias even if they’re raised apart. Some researchers have detected seventeen different genes that seem to be expressed with various anxiety disorders. So it may be that some folks are just naturally more anxious than others and they might pass on that quality to their kids. And of course individual brains have a lot to say about how they process anxiety. Physiologically, people who experience panic attacks, generalized anxiety, or obsessive compulsions show over-arousal in the areasof the brain that deal in impulse control and habitual behaviors. Now we don’t know whether these irregularities cause the disorder or are caused by it, but again, it reinforces the truism that everything that is psychological is simultaneously biological. And that holds true for many other psychological disorders we’ll talk about in the coming weeks, many of which have names that you’ve also heard being misused in the past. Today you learned what defines an anxiety disorder, as well as the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and phobias. You also learned about the two main perspectives on the origins of anxiety disorders, the learning perspective and the biological perspective and hopefully you learned not to use “OCD” as a punch line from now on. Thanks for watching, especially to all of our Subbable subscribers who make Crash Course available to them and also to everyone else. To find out how you can become a supporter just go to subbable.com/crashcourse. This episode was written by Kathleen Yale, edited by Blake de Pastino, and our consultant is Dr. Ranjit Bhagwat. Our director and editor is Nicholas Jenkins, the script supervisor is Michael Aranda who is also our sound designer and the graphics team is Thought Cafe..

OCD and Anxiety Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #29

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Yoga For Anxiety and Stress

– Hey guys, welcome to Yoga with Adriene. I'm Adriene, and today we have a sequence for anxiety. So this practice is awesome for when you're feeling stressed out, or maybe you're feeling a little anxious, maybe a little panic attacky, or you just need to move from the darkness, into the light. Hop on the mat and let's get started.

Alrighty, let's begin with a nice, comfortable seat. Sit up nice and tall. And arrive here now. You've started the video, you're here, the hard part is over. Let's begin with the breath. Inhale. As you breathe in, draw the shoulders up to the ears. As you breathe out, draw the shoulders down away from the ears. Good. As you breathe in, squeeze and lift. As you breathe out, drop, create space. Couple more times. Inhale, find what feels good here. And exhale, create space. One more time. Inhale, squeeze to the max. And exhale, create space. Awesome, take your right ear over your right shoulder, breathe, ground down through the elbows. Lift it back to center, and to the other side. Left ear over left shoulder. Draw down through the elbows. Great, bringing it back to center. And we're gonna come into a little moodra here as we prepare for alternate nostril breathing. So this is my number one, if you don't have time for the whole video, at least have time for this Pranayama technique, which I really do think is like a magic elixir.

For when I'm feeling anxious, if you ever feel like you are in kind of a panic attack moment, or anything like that, or you just need to de-stress, balance out. This is the one for you, my friends. So, we're gonna take the kind of hang loose sign here, it's kind of like this, and we're just gonna bring it to the ring finger and the thumb. See, bring the two peace fingers in. Or, if that's difficult for you, you can also do your middle finger and your thumb. So, you have your thumb, and an extra finger here. And we have a whole video on alternate nostril breathing, so if you're new to this and you want to go ahead and learn the technique first, you can pause it and click on that.

Open it up in another window, and it's really lovely. Um, but to honor your time, we're just gonna hop right in so you can practice this regularly. So, thumb's gonna come to the right nostril. Sit up nice and tall and breathe in through the left nostril. Keep the shoulders relaxed, as you pause at the top, we switch, covering the left nostril, breathing out through the right nostril. Inhale in through the right nostril. Always holding, pausing at the top to switch. Exhale out through the left nostril. Inhale in. Alternating at the top, exhale. Inhale. And alternating at the top, exhale. Keep it going. Nice and easy, smooth breaths. Again, alternating at the top. After a little bit of experiment, you find a rhythm that works good for you. A hand moodra that works good for you. And even it out here, really come in.

And gently release both hands down. Take a deep breath in through both nostrils. And out through both nostrils. Slowly open the eyes. Amazing, and notice how you feel. Great. From here we're gonna move on to all fours, but take this sense, whatever the breath did to you, maybe nothing, but just take one thing and add it on the rights, we're staying present in the moment, but we're kind of allowing ourself to change the course of things, right? Trying to let go of the stress. The anxiety in the body. That breath's so lovely for the nervous system, so keep it soft and easy as you come to all fours here, my sweet friends.

Be kind to yourself. And we'll move into a little Cat-Cow. Should feel awesome. We've already connected the brain. And the breath. And the alternate nostril breathing, Nadi Shodhana. It's a purifying breath. So keep nice, long smooth deep breaths here, as you now begin to integrate the spine, which is also connected to the brain. So when the brain is a mess, it is so beneficial to do spinal work. Even something as simple and delicious as Cat-Cow. Awesome, from here, I'm gonna curl the toes under, walk the palms slightly forward. Nice and easy, inhale in, on an exhale, lift the hips Downward-Facing Dog. So connect to your strength here, but keep a softness.

Press into the palms, take care of the wrists, bend the knees. Inhale in. Exhale lowering back down. Awesome. Press into the tops of the feet, walk the wrists back underneath the shoulders. Then inhale, keep the right palm where it is here, and we're gonna open the left fingertips out. So just go as far as you can before you feel… a pinch in the back body. Opening, inhale. Exhale, left palm down, right fingertips reach up, so it might not be all the way here is what I'm trying to say, it might just be here, even here, as you inhale. Open up through the chest. Exhale. Again, to the left, inhale, press away from your yoga mat. Exhale, press into the tops of the feet. Inhale. And exhale. And one more time. Long in the neck. Synchronizing with the breath. Super awesome.

All right. Walk the knees together, take a Child's Pose here, go ahead and keep the fingertips reaching out long those, stretching to the side body. Knees are together though, and we bow the forehead. Rest your heart. Slowly we're gonna walk the palms over towards the right, excuse me, left edge of your mat. And the right hand's gonna come over to kiss the left hand. So maybe they come one on top of each other. Breathe into the right shoulder, the right side body. Pull back gently with the right hip crease, and breathe deeply. And now through center. And to the right, right palm to the right edge of your mat. Left palm comes and hops on top of the right, and we breathe here, forehead grounding down, and reaching down. Stick with your breath my friends, I know the mind is powerful, but so is your breath. Come back to center. Inhale, lifts you up. Exhale, curl the toes under, Downward-Facing Dog. Okay, time for a cleanser. We need to inhale in through the nose. Exhale out through the mouth. Inhale in through the nose.

Exhale out through the mouth. One more, don't be shy. Beauty of home practice. Lion's Breath. Great, drop the left heel, lift the right leg up high, inhale. Exhale, step it up into a nice Low Lunge. Prepping for Warrior 2. Take your time getting there. We'll pivot on the back foot. Keep the front knee bent. When you're ready, rise up strong. Find strong footing here today, super important that you ground through all four corners of the feet. Press into the ninth edge of that back foot, and charge the left of your thigh. Reach the right fingertips, really reach. Left fingertips back, really reach. Really deep here. Send energy out in all directions. Left to right, down to the Earth, and lift and lengthen up through the crown.

Big breath in here. Big breath out, draw your shoulders down. Pull the pinkies back. Great, and keep the front knee bent here for now, as you reach the right fingertips forward. Up and back, Peaceful Warrior here. Keep the front knee bent. Now hug the low ribs in. Just a hair, sorry, had an itch, and then we're gonna inhale. Straighten leg, front leg. Exhale, bend. Inhale, reach. Exhale, bend. One more, inhale reach. Exhale, bend. This time, continue the journey all the way down, extended side angle. Right fingertips to the Earth. Left fingertips towards the sky. Can also be here on the top of the thigh. Breathe deep, inhale in. Long exhale out. Inhale. And exhale. Stick with your breath. One more time, inhale in. And exhale, bringing the left fingertips down. We'll pivot back to our Lunge. Clamp the palm, step it back to Plank, you can move through a Vinyasa here, if you like, or send it straight to Downward-Facing Dog. Meld your heart back.

Send your hips up high. Press into the palms, especially the index finger and thumb. And we'll drop the right heel down and inhale, lift the left leg up. Exhale, step it up into your Lunge. Warrior 2. So take a second getting there. All right, it's really about the sensation today. And about the journey. And so take your time as you arrive. Your strong, grounded,beautiful Warrior 2. So a little work on the feet. Goes a long way. Then connect to the energetic body. Tailbone down. Front body lifts. Reach both directions. Up, ground down. Big breath in. So good for the body here, full body experience. Energy radiating. Then keep the front knee bent my friends, best you can. And send the left fingertips forward, up, and back. As you can see, my right hand's coming around, it can stay in the small of the back here, or reach around to the top of the left hip crease. Keep the front knee bent as you inhale. And exhale. Now here we go, inhale, straightening through the front leg. Inhale, extend energy out through the left fingertips.

Exhale. Sink deep. Stay strong in your back leg. Inhale, extend, And exhale, sink deep. Ooh, nice, you got it. Inhale one last time. And exhale, continue this journey, meld it all the way down into your extended side angle. Lean back everyone. Remember, we can always be here. Big breaths. Strong connection to the Earth. One more breath here, you got it. Then slowly, right fingertips float down to meet the left.

We come back to our Lunge. We plant the palms. Again, you can move through a Vinyasa here, or you can send it straight to Downward-Facing Dog. And Down Dog, back to that cleansing breath. Take a big inhale, in through the nostrils. And exhale out through the mouth. Great, drop the left heel, lift the right leg up high. This time, come to Warrior 1, nice and strong. Reach the fingertips up high, press into the outer edge of the back foot. Then inhale and look up. Exhale,rain your fingertips down. Stay strong in your front leg. Hug energy into the mid-line here for stability. And step back a little bit here, so, draw the knuckles down and away, and as you inhale in, find that lift in the heart extension through the crown.

As you exhale, lift your left heel up. Stay soft and bent in the front knee. And we're gonna play with a little Warrior 3. So you might just come to here, big toe on the Earth. Keep your focus out in front, neck nice and long. Inhale in, and exhale, maybe you begin to lift through the left inner thigh. Maybe you come to here right away. Or maybe again, you're growing this, and so we keep big toe on the Earth. Stay connected. Ah, the mind begins to clear, we begin to focus on the sensations of the body as you lift through the left air and thigh.

You can stay here. You can release with control to Airplane Arms. Or maybe you take the fingertips all the way forward. Wherever you are, full body experience, breathe deep. And then slowly make your way back to Warrior 1. Inhale and smile. Exhale. Let it go. Back to the Lunge. Optional Vinyasa here, take it or leave it. Into Downward-Facing Dog. Beautiful. Drop the right heel, lift the left leg up high. Inhale. Exhale, stepping through. Find Warrior 1. Take your time. Strong legs. When you're ready, reach the fingertips up high. Grab em down through the shoulders. Connect to the sensations in the body and today, stay present. Inhale in. Exhale, rain it down. Interlace. This time you'll be opposite them on top, so the one that feels kind of weird. And knuckles are all down and away as we open the heart. Welcome that heat. That aliveness that's starting to maybe glisten on your forehead or your lip. Stay strong and grounded to the Earth, you got this. Inhale, look up. On an exhale, begin to slowly stay bent in the front leg, lift on to the right big toe.

Again, maybe this is your pose today. Yes. Working on balance, stability, I'm here, I love myself, I've got this. And maybe we take it a step further by softening through the back knee. And beginning to lift up. Maybe even further. Maybe even further. Lifting up through the right inner thigh, if you are lifted, finding extension through the crown. Wherever you are, focus on your breath, the sensations in your body. Clear your mind of any stress. Of any anxiety, any worry. Focus on connecting to your strength right here. Right now. So even if you fall, you come back. Come back to the practice, come back to the mid line.

Maybe you release the fingertips with control. So resist the slingshot effect. And find Airplane Arms. And maybe reach it forward. Nice, strong breaths. Everyone, wherever you are, be there fully. With your breath. Then slowly take your practice back to Warrior 1. Inhale, look up. Exhale, shake it off. Take it all the way back down. Last chance for a Vinyasa, feel free to take it, or leave it. Moving through a Heart Opener, if it feels good. And then we'll all make our way to Extended Child's Pose. Bring the big toes together, meld the heart back. Bring the palms together. And then up and over the head. Gently crawl the elbows forward a hair. Stretch through the side body and the shoulder. Take a deep breath in. And exhale, let everything go. Surrender here, priminal. Bring it into the back body. Close your eyes. Just take a second to bow to the big picture. To surrender to that which is out of your control. And to connect to a little sense of peace and love within. Slowly we'll drop the fingertips back to the mat.

Plant the palms in nice and easy rise up. Walk the knees into center. Carefully cross the ankles. And use your fingertips to help guide yourself all the way back to a seat. And we'll extend the legs out long, heels in line with the hips. If you're a little bit tight in the hips and the lower body, we can maybe lift the hip up on a blanket or block here if that feels good. And then we'll inhale, reach towards the sky, ground down through the tops of the thighs. And then exhale, reaching forward. So this will look a little different for everyone, it might be here for you. Keeping the neck and the spine nice and long. It might be here. It might be here. So find your Forward Fold. Again, very helpful to lift the hips up a little bit here. Eventually, you find a sense of surrender here again, rounding through the spine, eventually the neck, stretching nicely.

Yummy here's, you bow the head. And bend the knees as generous as you need to here, no need to kind of hit this perfect little yoga shape today, or any day for that matter, but uh, find what feels good. Find the layer of breath. And then slowly we'll release. And come to lie flat on the back. When you arrive, go ahead and hug the knees into the chest. And then release the left foot to the ground, and the right leg up high. Cross the right ankle over the left. Interlace the fingertips behind the back of the left thigh, and then bring your left foot onto an imaginary wall here, so press up against the wall, flex. Now we'll begin to squeeze and pull. Breathing deep here in a little reclined One Legged Pigeon. Neck is nice and long, so your chin is lifted, see we can tuck it in a little bit. Breathing deep here. Hmmmm. Great, then send the left leg up high, just a little hamstring bonus here, one more breath. And then nice and easy, with control, right? So again, resist the slingshot effect.

With control send the left, uh, right leg up to meet the left. And I'm gonna reach both fingertips towards the outer edges and I'm gonna pulse here. Keep the shoulders relaxed. Palms facing each other. Tailbone scooping up towards the sky. Oh my God, creaky old floor! Oh my God, we have a creaky floor here. Yay, everything's in alignment. See, sometimes when you move, it just takes a while, right? Take it to the left, pulse. Creaky old floor. Let's bring all the YWA members who've been with me for a while. And to the right, here we go.

Miss that creaky old floor. But we have one here. Oh my gosh. And then back to center. Five, four, three, two, and release. Yay. You never know when you're gonna make new discoveries. Right foot to the ground, left leg up high. Crossing the left, (laughs) left ankle over the right. Interlace. Who'd have thought a creaky floor could bring so much joy to someone. Okay. Shin parallel to the ceiling. Flex your right foot. So chances are you know this shape, right, but the feet just kind of have to hang dead-like. So keep a little aliveness here, and then squeeze. Again, tuck your chin into your chest. And then creaky old floor aside, I need you to close your eyes and I would like to invite you to feel supported.

Your spine supported here, the weight of your body supported by the Earth. Keep breathing. Then extend that right leg up. Great, slowly unravel. Left foot joining the right, this time we interlace fingertips behind the head. Inhale in. Exhale, lift the head, the neck, the shoulders. Press into the heels. Inhale lower. Exhale lift. Inhale lower. Exhale lift. Keep the elbows wide. Keep it going. Inhale lower. Exhale lift. Extend the thumbs, nice little neck hammock here. And three more. Scooping the tailbone out. And last one, you got it.

And release. Supta Baddha Konasana. Ah, we lit the fire in our belly after all. Shimmy the shoulders underneath the heart here. Maybe give your little belly a pet. Ahh… Inhale, lots of love in. Exhale, close your eyes. Begin to allow your breath to return back to a natural rhythm here. And then when you're ready, we'll peel the arms out wide. And slide the legs out long. Allow your body to grow heavy, even if you don't have time for a long Halasana. Take a second here to let the body settle and rest. To allow the nutrients of your practice to seep in, to settle in. Then notice how you feel. Then slowly draw the palms together, bring them to your third eye. And we seal the deal by saying Namaste, which is honoring the best and most beautiful version of ourself. Seeing that, honoring that in one's self. And then also in others. Take good care, my friends. Choose the light. Let it go. Namaste. (soothing music).

Your Brain on Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety disorder (S.A.D.) is characterized by a chronic uncontrollable fear stemming from social situations. People with social anxiety disorder may feel fear from being around a group of people, from one on one encounters, or even from imagining being around others. This disorder leads to social isolation and avoidance. You might be wondering what is happening within the brain of someone with S.A.D. Watch this video to learn about some of the brain structures associated with this disorder and what they do. This video was created by McMaster Demystifying Medicine 4DM3 students Annelise Kohler, Fangyi (Fanny) Liu, Zion Lee, Eshan Shah and Rafaella Shamans. Copyright McMaster University 2015. Here are links to the resources discussed in the video: Mood Disorders Society of Canada Website à http://www.mooddisorderscanada.ca/ McMaster Student Wellness Centre Website à http://wellness.mcmaster.ca/

4 ways to cope with anxiety

Dr. Sandra Mendlowitz, a Psychologist at SickKids, talks about anxiety and gives children and parents 4 tips to cope with anxiety.

OCD and Anxiety Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #29

Want more videos about psychology every Monday and Thursday? Check out our sister channel SciShow Psych at https://www.youtube.com/scishowpsych! *** Ever call someone OCD because they like to have a clean apartment? Ever tell someone you have a phobia of spiders when, in fact, they just creep you out a little? In this episode of Crash Course psychology, Hank talks about OCD and Anxiety Disorders in the hope we’ll understand what people with actual OCD have to deal with as well as how torturous Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks can actually be. — Table of Contents: What Defines an Anxiety Disorder 01:55:20 Symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 02:35:07 Generalized Anxiety Disorder 04:05:18 Panic Disorder and Phobias 04:47:20 The Learning Perspective 07:38:20 The Biological Perspective 09:13:14 Don’t Use OCD as a Punch Line 00:00:00 — Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr – http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Subbable: http://subbable.com/crashcourse

Generalized anxiety disorder | Mental health | NCLEX-RN | Khan Academy

Visit us (http://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine) for health and medicine content or (http://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat) for MCAT related content. These videos do not provide medical advice and are for informational purposes only. The videos are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read or seen in any Khan Academy video. Created by Tanner Marshall. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/nclex-rn/rn-mental-health/anxiety-rn/v/phobias?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=Nclex-rn Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/nclex-rn/rn-mental-health/depression-and-related-disorders-rn/v/treatments-for-bipolar-disorder?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=Nclex-rn NCLEX-RN on Khan Academy: A collection of questions from content covered on the NCLEX-RN. These questions are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/). About Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. We’ve also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content. For free. For everyone. Forever. #YouCanLearnAnything Subscribe to Khan Academy’s NCLEX-RN channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDx5cTeADCvKWgF9x_Qjz3g?sub_confirmation=1 Subscribe to Khan Academy: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=khanacademy

Generalized Anxiety Disorder – Understanding the Nature of Worry and Anxiety

Free public talk presented by Dr. Rami Nader, Registered Psychologist on January 27, 2015. The talk highlights some of the features of worry and anxiety and presents a model to better understand excessive worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. For more information, visit www.raminader.com You can also follow the North Shore Stress and Anxiety Clinic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nssacca

3 Tips to Manage Anxiety & Panic Attacks

Managing anxiety and panic attacks may seem to bring about more panic and anxiety. But, today, Dr. Jennie Byrne gives you 3 tips to help you manage your anxiety and panic. Learn more at http://www.cognitive-psychiatry.com