I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Nnenna Ijomah last week of The Shorthorn, UTA's student newspaper. Below is an excerpt from her article about procrastination and anxiety. Read more here how anxiety in students can lead to under planning, as well as over-planning. Spoiler alert: emotionally beating the hell out of yourself for a bad habit doesn't help you change! ----------- Procrastinated until 2 a.m. and that seven page paper is due at 9 a.m., huh? It’s okay, m

Once people understand they have an anxiety disorder, the most difficult thing to accept is that, essentially, their thoughts are lying to them. As a society, we are often taught to "trust our gut" and "do what we feel," and while that's a wonderful sentiment in a non-anxious person, it can reek havoc on an anxious person's life. After all, if we have relationship anxiety, we will run from every relationship because "something feels off." If we have health anxiety (former