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Anxiety Files

Simple and powerful techniques for coping with anxiety and worry.

Depression
How to Overcome Hopelessness

Robert L. Leahy Ph.D. on April 12, 2021

If you think that your problems are hopeless, you are likely to give up trying, isolate yourself, and become more depressed. Here are some things you can do instead.

If you think that your problems are hopeless, you are likely to give up trying, isolate yourself, and become more depressed. Here are some things you can do instead.

Anxiety
Financial Anxiety and the Pandemic

Robert L. Leahy Ph.D. on June 19, 2020

As unemployment rises and finances become problematic, we can take off some of the stress by following these seven suggestions.

As unemployment rises and finances become problematic, we can take off some of the stress by following these seven suggestions.

Fear
Coronavirus Anxiety

Robert L. Leahy Ph.D. on March 3, 2020

Too much fear makes us unnecessarily miserable, but too little fear may put us at unnecessary risk.

Too much fear makes us unnecessarily miserable, but too little fear may put us at unnecessary risk.