Anxiety
Anxiety Triggers: How to Find Yours
Anxiety triggers aren’t always obvious, and those that do the most damage are often the small things you’ve stopped noticing rather than the dramatic, one-off events you’d expect.…
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JJ Stenhouse
Anxiety
Overthinking and Anxiety: Why It Loops
Overthinking and anxiety reinforce each other in a loop that can run for hours. This is because the racing thoughts that come with anxiety can give the impression…
Anxiety
Anxiety vs Stress: What’s Different
Anxiety vs stress is a confusing comparison to make because the two can feel almost identical in the body, even though they come from different places and need…
Anxiety
Social Anxiety and the Fear of Being Seen
Social anxiety turns ordinary contact with other people, whether at a meeting, a party or even a phone call, into something your body treats as a threat to…
Anxiety
High-Functioning Anxiety: Hidden Signs
High-functioning anxiety is the version of anxiety that allows you to still send that email, go on the school run or chair the meeting even though your system…
Anxiety
Physical Symptoms of Anxiety Explained
Physical symptoms of anxiety often show up before you’ve named what you’re feeling: a racing heart, a tight chest, a stomach that drops. Anxiety doesn’t just sit in…
Consciousness
Altered States of Consciousness Explained
Altered states of consciousness are any shifts in awareness that move you away from your ordinary waking baseline. The phrase usually conjures up meditation retreats or psychedelic research,…
Consciousness
The Quantum Theory of Consciousness
The quantum theory of consciousness proposes that the strange behaviour of matter at the subatomic level plays a direct role in how minds work. It’s a minority position…
Consciousness
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
Is consciousness an illusion? It doesn’t sound like a serious question, yet some of the most rigorous thinkers in philosophy and neuroscience have asked it and they say…
Consciousness
Can AI Be Conscious?
Can AI be conscious? It’s one of the most widely discussed questions of the moment but most of the debate misses the most interesting part. The question isn’t…
Consciousness
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
The hard problem of consciousness is one of the most consequential unsolved questions in science: why do physical processes in the brain produce felt, subjective experience at all?…
Consciousness
Does the Brain Create Consciousness?
The question “Does the brain creates consciousness?” is one the most contentious in science, with serious researchers on both sides and no settled answer. Most people assume the…