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Simple and powerful techniques for coping with anxiety and worry.
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Post Traumatic Investor Disorder

By Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D. on October 24, 2008 in Anxiety Files

The market hits new lows, your 401 K money has died and gone to heaven, and you are in total panic mode. Yes, Main Street, you are bewildered by the market's wild ride and you just called your broker and screamed in a high-pitched voice, "SELL EVERYTHING".  Read More

Just think about losing one trillion . . .

Submitted by Writing Frontier on October 24, 2008 - 8:45pm.

One thing you can do to calm the panic is to sit down and contemplate what a trillion dollars is all about. Check it out at

http://writingfrontier.com/2008/10/22/one-trillion-dollars/

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Robert Leahy

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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