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		<title>Death, Taxes, and Obsessions</title>
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It’s tax time. Our accountant called to ask for another piece of paper. The regular drawer in which I stow stuff to do with mortgages is stuffed with large folders from various mortgage and title companies that we have dealt with over the last decade. Couldn’t find the paper—took out everything and slowly sorted through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/03/death-taxes-and-obsessions/</link>
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		<title>Personality Disorders Disappearing?</title>
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM IV), a book that defines and describes the symptoms of emotional problems, has been in the revision process for years. Health professionals (and insurance companies) routinely use the manual to guide diagnosis and treatment. Recently, considerable attention has been given to the proposed changes in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/03/personality-disorders-disappearing/</link>
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		<title>When Worries Happen</title>
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Anxiety is normal and only considered a disorder when it significantly interferes with day-to-day living. A critical element of treating most anxiety disorders is exposure. Basically, exposure involves facing what you fear. Depending on your specific fear, this exposure can either be real or in the imagination. For example, someone with a deep fear of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/02/when-worries-happen/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Popularizing May Not be All that Popular,&#8221; but We Like Writing For Dummies Anyway!</title>
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A few years ago, I read an article by Scott Lilienfeld, Ph.D. called “When Worlds Collide” in the American Psychologist. Quite fascinating actually, but that’s not the point of this blog. In a section of his article, Dr. Lilienfeld noted that most academic departments of psychology as well as many other scientific disciplines, tend to strongly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/02/popularizing-may-not-be-all-that-popular-but-we-like-writing-for-dummies-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Winter Blues and Hope</title>
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A few years ago, Chuck and I were asked to write Seasonal Affective Disorder For Dummies. SAD is thought to be a biologically caused type of depression related to the lack of sunlight in the winter. We had a great time researching and writing the material—including a trip to Alaska to interview people who live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/02/winter-blues-and-hope/</link>
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		<title>Are Self-Help Books Helpful?</title>
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A recent, small study published in Behavior Research and Therapy by G. Haeffel (and passed along to us by Kenneth Pope, Ph.D.) questions the general use and even the effectiveness of self-help books as “traditionally operationalized and sold in stores.” The author states, “This also raises concerns about the benefits of self-help books (e.g., CBT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/02/is-self-help-helpful-2/</link>
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		<title>What Does Dialectical Mean?</title>
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More than a couple of decades ago, Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. developed a unique approach to the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) which she chose to call “Dialectical Behavior Therapy” or DBT. Research has established that DBT appears to help reduce some of the worst problems associated with BPD (such as repeated suicidal behaviors, therapy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/02/what-does-dialectical-mean/</link>
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		<title>When Pain Becomes a Tsunami: Don’t Try this at Home!</title>
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I haven’t very often suffered from significant chronic pain in my life; a fact that I am quite grateful for as I’ve worked with many patients who have faced this condition. I always had considerable empathy for their plights, but never fully understood how incapacitating it can be. And the anxiety of such pain continuing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/02/when-pain-becomes-a-tsunami-don%e2%80%99t-try-this-at-home/</link>
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		<title>Frowns, Smiles, and Botox</title>
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Chuck and I are going to get professional pictures for our web site in order to show our readers how much older we’ve become. So, already, I’m a bit worried about my smile. I don’t think I ever worried about the way I looked in pictures until I started to notice pictures of myself in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/01/frowns-smiles-and-botox/</link>
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		<title>Attachment and Anxiety</title>
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The first cry of a healthy infant signals the beginning of a biologically driven connection between mother and child. Minutes after birth, babies stare deeply into the eyes of their caregivers and begin to feed. Healthy attachment gives children comfort and a secure base from which to explore the world. 
There are many potential challenges [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.psychcentral.com/anxiety/2010/01/attachment-and-anxiety/</link>
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