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Someone once said to me, when they were talking about the importance of the attachment system and human relationships “no one ever lies dying on the battlefield screaming for their car, soldiers call out for their mothers.” It’s a graphic illustration of just how hard wired we all are to seek out and need comfort…

REPOSTED: How to Increase Your Wellbeing: Interview with Aaron Jarden by Kyle MacDonald on July 7, 2016 On The Confident Mind this week I spoke with Aaron Jarden.  Aaron is a Senior Lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology, President of the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology, lead investigator for the International Wellbeing Study…

Social Media Anxiety: The Good, Bad and the Ugly by Kyle MacDonald in Social Media Different World, Same Issues Very little has swept through our world quite as completely in recent centuries as social media. It’s quite likely you’ve come across this blog via Facebook, Twitter or Google+ and, if you think it’s in any…

The Serotonin Mystery: How Does Too Much Make You Anxious? by Kyle MacDonald in Anxiety A lot of the treatments for anxiety and depression have sought to raise levels of serotonin – the chemical in the brain linked mostly to happiness and relaxation. Because of that, research has tended towards finding physical ways to reverse…

Fear of Fear by admin in Anxiety, Fear Anxiety is awful, no doubt about it.  And when we experience awful unpleasant things we get frightened and want to avoid them. But one of the real head-spinners of anxiety is how we become afraid of fear. What we’re talking about here is “secondary emotions”, when an emotion…

The Volume Knob Problem Anxiety, Fear, Mindfulness / admin What is the volume knob problem?  Well it’s a way I think about the fact that some people experience their emotions more intensely than others.  This is what the psychologists call “emotional dysregulation” or problems regulating emotions. All sorts of things can cause it.  Some people…