Anxiety and Trouble Sleeping

Does anxiety cause sleeplessness or does sleeplessness cause anxiety? This question is forever being debated by both mental health providers and researchers alike. What we know for sure if that for some people, symptoms of anxiety like excessive fear or worrying, feelings of panic, and restlessness can get worse in the evening, which can create a cycle of being unable to fall asleep or stay asleep. When this happens, people have a tendency to becoming anxious about having anxiety about sleeping! Sounds exhausting right?!

The Transition to Motherhood: When Scary Thoughts Won't Go Away

Worrying as a mother is a natural instinct! In fact, it is often shrugged off as normal by many health care providers because everyone expects new noms to experience heightened fears or anxiety to some extent. But when it begins to feel crippling, excessive, or even toxic, this type of intrusive new mom worry can be a sign of postpartum anxiety.

Worry Work and How It Affects Women

Worry work or carrying the emotional load... both terms describe a constant, thrumming, low-level anxiety over the health and well-being of your children, and according to researchers, women tend to do more of the worry work than men do. It’s an endless list of organizational tasks that runs through your head like ticker tape: we’re out of milk, when do we need to apply for preschool, is the baby outgrowing her onesies, can't forget to schedule that doctor's appointment, are the kid's lunches packed for tomorrow...

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