Anxiety Files

Simple and powerful techniques for coping with anxiety and worry.

by Robert L. Leahy

Overcoming Post-Traumatic Investor Disorder

By Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. on October 27, 2008 in Anxiety Files

You blame others, you feel that the world is not what you thought it would be, and you want to avoid all information about the market and any information in your monthly statements. Warren Buffet and the other pros may look at the current debacle as the biggest opportunity that they have seen. It may also be the most terrifying financial trauma that you have experienced and, so, you are reluctant to move forward. What can you do? Read More

Perhaps the anxiety is actually justified

Submitted by Writing Frontier on October 27, 2008 - 10:03am.

I would agree that each of the rules you set forth for dealing with this anxiety about circumstances being out to get you make sense. But what happens when the rules don't work and the anxiety is actually justified? See

http://writingfrontier.com/2008/09/06/when-it-rains/

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Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., is the author of Anxiety Free,The Worry Cure and Beat the Blues. He is Clinical Professor of Psychology at Weill-Cornell Medical School and Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy.

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