ITA’s Julie Brannen Demonstrates How Dance/Movement Therapy Works Have you ever noticed that when you’re feeling stressed, you feel tension in your body? Your shoulders may ache, your stomach may be tight, maybe you get a tension headache. What we know is that the way we feel mentally and emotionally impacts the way our body […]
Illustrating Anxiety
From the Huffington Post: Anxiety disorders are still largely misunderstood in society, despite the fact that an overwhelming number of American adults experience them. Luckily, artist Pranita Kocharekar is here with some visual insight. After facing anxiety on her own, Kocharekar started opening up about her emotions with her friends. She discovered that many of […]
Anxiety Disorders
Definitions of Anxiety Disorders From the DSM-5: Anxiety disorders includes disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioral disturbances. Fear is the emotional response to real or perceived imminent threat, whereas anxiety is anticipation of future threat… Panic attacks feature prominently within the anxiety disorders as a particular type of fear […]