The Michael J. Fox Show! I LOVE HIM.
“Since we’re both here, could I get you to sign an autograph? My uncle’s got Alzheimer’s.”
“I’ve actually got Parkinson’s…”
Hahahahaha <3
“Can you not have a personal victory right now, we are starving.”
Can’t wait.
I feel really down today. It’s one of those days you can’t focus on anything but do a bit of everything. You can’t really justify or explain it with a reason or cause, but you really don’t care enough to either. It’s just really scattered, with pieces of me everywhere.
All of a sudden, everyone is an expert in the field of genetics. And epidemiology. And oncology.
Hey Anon,
I’m not very smart or well-rounded, but inshaAllah I can balance everything in my life with the time I am blessed with. Also, reppin’ Toronto all day, everydaaaaaaay!
Much love!
They’re good Canadian hockey fans and they don’t wreck things.
Don Cherry on Leaf fans gathering outside the ACC to watch the games.
And if we do, we apologize 10 times.
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Proud of the boys. Proud of Toronto. We’ll get ‘em next year. Go Leafs Go.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS GAME
IT’S NOW 4-4.
WHAT IS GOING ON!?!?! HOW DO YOU GIVE UP A 4-1 LEAD!?!?! 2 in the last minute. How. Why.
To suppress or to explore? Emotional strategy may influence anxiety
When trouble approaches, what do you do? Run for the hills? Hide? Pretend it isn’t there? Or do you focus on the promise of rain in those looming dark clouds?
New research suggests that the way you regulate your emotions, in bad times and in good, can influence whether – or how much – you suffer from anxiety.
The study appears in the journal Emotion.
In a series of questionnaires, researchers asked 179 healthy men and women how they managed their emotions and how anxious they felt in various situations. The team analyzed the results to see if different emotional strategies were associated with more or less anxiety.
The study revealed that those who engage in an emotional regulation strategy called reappraisal tended to also have less social anxiety and less anxiety in general than those who avoid expressing their feelings. Reappraisal involves looking at a problem in a new way, said University of Illinois graduate student Nicole Llewellyn, who led the research with psychology professor Florin Dolcos, an affiliate of the Beckman Institute at Illinois.
“When something happens, you think about it in a more positive light, a glass half full instead of half empty,” Llewellyn said. “You sort of reframe and reappraise what’s happened and think what are the positives about this? What are the ways I can look at this and think of it as a stimulating challenge rather than a problem?”
Study participants who regularly used this approach reported less severe anxiety than those who tended to suppress their emotions.
Anxiety disorders are a major public health problem in the U.S. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, roughly 18 percent of the U.S. adult population is afflicted with general or social anxiety that is so intense that it warrants a diagnosis.
“The World Health Organization predicts that by 2020, anxiety and depression –which tend to co-occur – will be among the most prevalent causes of disability worldwide, secondary only to cardiovascular disease,” Dolcos said. “So it’s associated with big costs.”
Not all anxiety is bad, however, he said. Low-level anxiety may help you maintain the kind of focus that gets things done. Suppressing or putting a lid on your emotions also can be a good strategy in a short-term situation, such as when your boss yells at you, Dolcos said. Similarly, an always-positive attitude can be dangerous, causing a person to ignore health problems, for example, or to engage in risky behavior.
Previous studies had found that people who were temperamentally inclined to focus on making good things happen were less likely to suffer from anxiety than those who focused on preventing bad things from happening, Llewellyn said. But she could find no earlier research that explained how this difference in focus translated to behaviors that people could change. The new study appears to explain the strategies that contribute to a person having more or less anxiety, she said.
“This is something you can change,” she said. “You can’t do much to affect the genetic or environmental factors that contribute to anxiety. But you can change your emotion regulation strategies.”
Her story is so inspirational. These are a few reasons why I want to pursue a teaching career in neuroscience.
Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.
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These are incredible! Masha’Allah your friend is extremely talented.
She really is, masha’Allah! Check out her more intricate work. She spends so much time on them and they turn out so beautiful.
