With a lot of anxiety occurring around the job market and the economy, employees are apparently showing better work habits. This is a part of anxiety that many people do not think about: it can be motivational. For more on this, read the Top 5 Ways Anxiety Can Be Helpful.

To keep track of the articles on this site and those yet to come on anxiety and substance use, I created a new page "Substance Use & Anxiety". If there are any particular areas you think would be good to cover in more depth related to that, make sure to leave a comment.

For a little bit of a fun change of pace, research is showing that most people believe that their dreams have significance and can lead to insights into their lives. As a therapist, I end up talking about dreams with my clients at times, and have seen really important personal change come from this process. So whether you believe in the unconscious speaking to your through dreams or whether you think they are random neurons firing, give interpretation a try sometime, even if it's just for fun.

There continues to be research showing physiological changes due to abuse, the most recent showing changes in a gene that may be related to our ability to deal with stress. I think this type of research will eventually have a major impact on the understanding of anxiety disorders like GAD, and possibly even guide treatments.