Tag: anxiety

environmental anxiety

Ecoanxiety

When we feel ecoanxiety, we feel the pressure of global environmental destruction closing around us, squeezing all hope out of us as we realize the extent to which the ecological crisis is out of our control.

death anxiety

Thanatophobia

Pretending that death isn’t something to be bothered about is obviously unrealistic, but there’s no clinical term to describe the psychopathology of people who deny the reality of death.

collywobbles

Butterflies in the Stomach

There are those who believe that it’s enough to identify the general emotion of anxiety and leave it at that. The problem with that generalist approach, however, is that it either assumes that… more emotion Butterflies in the Stomach

Angh

The Emotions of Angh

There is a feeling of tightness in anxiety, anguish, angst, and anger, but the form of that tightness shifts from word to word in ways that are as telling as the differences between dull pain, sharp pain, throbbing pain, and nagging pain.

Uhtceare

Uhtceare

You’ve been told that you’re supposed to get eight hours of sleep, seven at the very least. You’re trying to take care of yourself, knowing that if you become sleep deprived, your physical… more emotion Uhtceare