We now know that the amygdala is a big player when it comes to anxiety, but how do you understand something that you have no control over? If you want to understand someone who is speaking a foreign language, you learn the language or find a way to communicate, otherwise you won’t have a clueContinue reading “Anxiety and the Brain, Part 7: Learning the Language of the Amygdala.”
Category Archives: Neuroscience
Depressed or Just Ungrateful?
I am really struggling with the depression at the moment, I don’t feel as though I am getting anywhere, which really brings me down, I lose motivation and end up thinking ‘what’s the point?’ It’s not to say that nothing good is happening, it’s just that they seem short lived, and the negative stuff soonContinue reading “Depressed or Just Ungrateful?”
Medication & Anxious Dreams.
Over the last few months I have started having some really bad dreams; I wouldn’t say they all felt like nightmares, but they all shared one thing in common, I experienced anxiety and panic in them to a level where I was paralysed (in the dream that is). I have experienced nightmares in the past,Continue reading “Medication & Anxious Dreams.”
Anxiety and the Brain, Part 6: Circuitry
Circuitry is the connection between neurons, the basic building blocks of the brain, that we explored previously. “Neurons that fire together wire together” – Carla Shatz We learnt that neurons FIRE, which is where a positive charge travels from the receiving dendrites of the neuron, through the cell body, all the way to the axonContinue reading “Anxiety and the Brain, Part 6: Circuitry”
Shall I Compare Me to a Shark?
As I mentioned in my last blog I have started an introductory course in counselling; during the introductions we were asked to say which animal we were most like, and then yesterday we had to talk about that while another person listened. I had really struggled to decide which animal I think am like, andContinue reading “Shall I Compare Me to a Shark?”
And Breathe...... 