People with high anxiety often experience short-term memory loss because of the excessive elevation in cortisol levels.
Anxiety and Memory Loss
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Five Things To Stop Doing If You Have Anxiety
Trying to successfully manage your anxiety every day is no small feat. It takes a lot of energy day in and day out, and after a while it can begin to take a toll on you mentally and physically. To help you better manage your anxiety there are a few things that you should stop doing.
Leave Your Comfort Zone
Inside our comfort zone is safety and security. It’s calm, quiet, and where we are in control. Although we enjoy staying inside our comfort zone because we are free from disappointments, failures, and mistakes, those things are only a fraction of what we will encounter.
Failure isn’t Fatal
Failure isn’t fatal. It shouldn’t be seen as the end-all be-all. Failure is just another step on the road to success. Some of our greatest lessons are learned through failure, and it aids in our growth and development.
Overcoming Setbacks
Setbacks don’t mean it’s the end for us, and they don’t negate the progress we’ve made- they are simply a minor delay in progress, a hurdle we must overcome to move us towards our next accomplishment.