Browse Feed Entries By Tag: anxiety RSShttps://autismanimated.com/dolph/m/feed/browse/tag/anxietyBrowse Feed Entries By Tag: anxiety RSSWed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:15 -0700<![CDATA[My Anxiety Manifesto: The Nuances of Entering a Novel Situation with Anxiety in the Process]]>Read more]]>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:15 -0700<![CDATA[Dear Evan Hansen: A Compelling Musical that Relates to Neurodiversity and Social Anxiety]]>Read more]]>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:19 -0700<![CDATA[Mindfulness Meditation as a Pathway to Love of Self and Other]]>Read more]]>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:09 -0800<![CDATA[Stress: How I Increase My Capacity or “Spoons”]]> CAPACITY => STRESS TASKS = CAPACITY => HEALTHY EXCITEMENT TASKS < CAPACITY => RELAXATION According to many psychologists, the tasks are formed by factors and demands from your environment that cause stress. The load capacity is then determined by your ability to prevent and deal with stress. But it is more nuanced than that. Especially people with autism, AD(H)D and/or a psychological vulnerability know that the tension can also come from within. Through fear of the unknown, for example. Fortunately, the opposite is also true: the stress can also come from within yourself, for example because you have developed compensatory strategies and dare to ask your friends for help. From the model above you can actually deduce what you can do to reduce your stress: increase your load capacity and reduce your tasks. But how do these two things work in practice? Difference Between Stress and Anxiety In the literature, stress is typically defined as caused by an external trigger, whereas anxiety is defined by internal ones (such as worries that don’t go away even in the absence of a stre... Read more]]>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:13 -0800<![CDATA[Why Uncertainty Makes me Anxious]]>Read more]]>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:07 -0800<![CDATA[How practicing art helped me as therapy]]>Read more]]>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:09 -0800<![CDATA[How Music Can be Used to Help Autistic People]]>Read more]]>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:00:13 -0700<![CDATA[Ryan Smoluk’s art work provides insight into mental illness]]>Read more]]>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00:11 -0800<![CDATA[Delta Flight Attendant with Aspergers Creates Art Project to Ease Flyer Anxiety]]>Read more]]>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:00:33 -0800<![CDATA[Autistic man creates training program that allows others with autism to overcome anxiety, depression]]>Read more]]>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:00:33 -0700