{"id":2327,"date":"2017-06-07T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T02:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2017-06-07T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T03:04:36","slug":"anxiety-who-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/07\/anxiety-who-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety: Who? Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m participating in a panel on Friday (June 9) at Northeastern University on Anxiety, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/chatter.cbslab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CHATTER<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m quite nervous about this.<\/p>\n<p>As part of my preparation (which helps to reduce anxiety), I have been reviewing my past talks and writings on the subject. I discovered that my blog does not contain a copy of a talk I gave in 2010 on the subject. So,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/A-Mind-is-a-Terrible-Thing-0713.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> here it is<\/strong><\/a>! Although I would change some of the wording if I were to rewrite it, the thoughts expressed are still pretty much on the mark.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, here are a couple of my blog entries that are relevant to the topic of anxiety:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/the-healing-power-of-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Healing Power of Depression<\/a>\u00a0(2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2014\/10\/25\/prepared-remarks-for-as-connections-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Growing Old Disgracefully<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>One common topic that comes up in these writings is medication. I&#8217;ll plan to say some words about that at the event on Friday. Related topics are mindfulness and alcohol use. Given that I&#8217;ll have only a few minutes to speak before we launch into an open conversation, I&#8217;ll have to think of some pithy things to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m participating in a panel on Friday (June 9) at Northeastern University on Anxiety, as part of the CHATTER event. Of course, I&#8217;m quite nervous about this. As part of my preparation (which helps to reduce anxiety), I have been reviewing my past talks and writings on the subject. I discovered that my blog does &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2017\/06\/07\/anxiety-who-me\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,11,23,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}