Performance anxiety is tied to the fear of judgment and consequence, as we focus on what we believe others may think. It threatens self-confidence at moments of great importance. Performance anxiety ...

For better or worse, anxiety can feel like a constant companion. It can also leave you with a loss for words to capture how you feel. As Madhuri Jha, a psychotherapist and clinical advisor at Psych ...

After reading the title of this post, some readers may be asking “Stress can be positive? How could anxiety ever be ‘optimal?'" Modern society has trained us to think that we should rarely, if ever, ...

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