Binary Clarity

The Purpose

2009-08-01T05:30:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Binary Clarity! The purpose of this site is best expressed in this definition from ADDCoach:

"Distinction: a subtly of language that allows for the differences between words as they apply functionally to life to be brought to consciousness and articulated. Distinguishing hones both thinking and functioning...and helps you to form vital neurological connections (brain-links) to information in a way that expands your knowledge base exponentially rather than linearly."

This site is a kind of glossary that I hope will supplement your understanding of common everyday terms. On this site, you'll find a collection of articles/posts that highlight the distinction between two words with similar meanings, that use the "vs" convention, and that center around a certain theme (e.g. emotions). My sources come from all over the internet. They are not too specialized and should appeal to a broad audience. I hope you find it informative, entertaining and enlightening.

Bright Minds, Poor Grades

2008-07-23T14:05:00.001-07:00

How does a parent tell if his or her child is an underachiever? If so, how does a parent motivate a son or daughter to consistently perform at a higher level in school? As it turns out, recognizing an underachiever is much easier than nurturing one.

According to Dr. Whitley’s book, “Bright Minds, Poor Grades”, students who routinely perform below their own personal standards usually require a patient, concerted, and persistent regimen of adult supervision to keep them on track. Also, developing the child’s emotional and cognitive awareness are invaluable tools in helping the child mature, much more so than traditional methods of punishment. Though the short-term benefits of Dr. Whitley's program are sometimes negligible, the child will, through a greater self-knowledge, have the confidence to solve his or her own problems in the long-term.

Much to my dismay, the book is fairly long-winded and the doctor discusses his ideas in a circular, meticulous fashion. However, what makes this book a joy to read are all the little precious nuggets of wisdom sprinkled through out. (e.g. He points out adults should place sole emphasis on guiding a child toward attainment of self-made goals as opposed to admonishing the child for making poor grades.)

If you're an adult and your child shows any of the following symptoms highlighted from Dr. Whitley’s book, I highly recommend reading a copy.

Diagnosing Underachievers
• Shows intelligence, but grades fluctuate
• Lacks focus
• Has little or no self-discipline
• Underachievement pervades through all aspects of life

Characteristics of an Underachiever
• Lacks self-discipline
• Lacks self-awareness
• Lacks self-mastery
• Tells lies
• Makes excuses
• Dislikes responsibility
• Blames others for failures
• Scared of added responsibility when successful

Different Types of Underachievers
• Shy Type
• Procrastinator
• Martyr
• Hidden Perfectionist
• Socialite
• Con Artist

The above helps a parent or instructor recognize an underachiever, but in order to guide the student down the road to maturity, a parent might want to follow the Ten Step Program outlined in the book. This program includes:

• Establishing open and honest communication between parent and child
• Helping the child set up his or her own short-term and long-term goals
• Talking with the child about potential problems encountered when pursuing goals
• Guiding the child in thinking of practical solutions to these obstacles
• Redefining success as the complete fulfillment of proposed actions
• Helping the child explore his or her emotional reaction to future decisions

It goes without saying this program is quite tedious and will place a huge burden on a parent’s time and patience. Plus, grade improvement is not guaranteed, since it is the student who sets the academic goals. However, the book believes that following the program will at the very least set a lasting example showing the child the importance and benefits of planning ahead.

Love

2007-09-01T15:05:00.002-07:00

"I love you!" vs "I am in love with you!"

What is love? And why are people afraid of pursuing it?

Crush vs In love

How does one tell the differences between being in love with someone and having a crush over someone?

Love vs Affection

I really like the 'Ask an Apologist' thread on the Catholic Answers Forums because the Apologists give no-nonesence non-wishy-washy answers of undiluted Truth. (unlike the actual forums where sometimes you get a variety of opinions along the Truth spectrum).

Love vs In Love

Falling out of love does not have to mean the end of your relationship, and in his new book, Andrew G Marshall shows you why not.

Love vs Infatuation

Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It takes root and grows, one day at a time. Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity. One is excited and eager, but not genuinely happy. Love means trust. Infatuation is a passion bereft of inner certainty and might lead you to do things one will regret later, but love never will. Love is the quiet understanding and mature acceptance of imperfection. Love lifts you up and makes you want to better yourself because of the significant other in your life.

Love vs Infatuation

Finally, you have met him or her. You know what I mean, the one. All your life, or so it seems, you have been waiting for the person who made your heart pound, made the stars bright, and taken over all reasonable thought processes with ideas of making love on every beach from here to Tahiti.

Love vs Lust

There is a great contrast between love and lust. Lust is more of a sexual or greedy feeling, while love is more of a secure and content filled feeling we get from giving and receiving. Lust does not have to be something sexual, it can be a greedy desire for more money and power, etc. But for this article, I am using it in its sexual context.

Love vs the feeling of love

There have been a number of posts here where people are caught up in a struggle of trying to find out where that magical “feeling of love” went in their lives, or trying to get a handle on whether they are really loved by their partner.

Sex vs Love

Sex vs Love Love and sex are NOT the same thing. Love is an emotion or a feeling. There is no one definition of love because the word "love" can mean many different things to many different people. Sex, on the other hand, is a biological event. Even though there are different kinds of sex, most sexual acts have certain things in common. Sex may or may not include penetration.

Loneliness

2007-09-01T15:05:00.001-07:00

Aloneness vs Loneliness

I struggle with loneliness. I'm an artist, which makes me one half heart, a quarter brain and a quarter melancholy ;)

Loneliness vs Solitude

Since I started writing this blog I have been amazed at just how many people have read the blog I wrote on loneliness (via search engines). This shouldn’t be surprising, since I am sure if we are honest (if only to ourselves) there isn’t one of us, at some stage or other in our life, who hasn’t felt lonely.

Loners vs Loneliness

The minute she heard about the massacre in Virginia, author Anneli Rufus knew what was coming next. "It was almost a countdown," she said. "Five, four, three, two, one — here comes the L word!"

Solitude vs Loneliness

As the world spins faster and faster--or maybe it just seems that way when an email can travel around the world in fractions of a second--we mortals need a variety of ways to cope with the resulting pressures. We need to maintain some semblance of balance and some sense that we are steering the ship of our life.

Hope

2007-09-01T15:04:00.001-07:00

Hope vs Belief

In Part I, we saw how opinions and wagers can draw out different sides of what people think about an issue. Basing a wager on a wrong prediction has definite costs, so people use more belief. Having a wrong opinion on a distant issue is costless, so people use more hope.

Hope vs Determination

WHEN THINGS ARE GOING BADLY, people will tell you, “don’t lose hope.” But hope is not as valuable as most people think. Determination is a much more helpful feeling. What’s the difference? I’ll show the difference by telling you a true story of a rugby team.

Hope vs Faith

What would a good Too German blog be without some Martin Luther. I recently read this in a book by Martin Luther called “The Way of Faith”. I found it helpful and wanted to share it. This passage is from Luther’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians:

Hope vs Mindset

A pro-active mindset is willing to own that the paradigm upon which the empire is based is not only shallow, wanton, mindless, and infantilizing, but ultimately toxic- mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Happiness

2007-09-01T15:03:00.002-07:00

Contentment vs Complacency

Many years ago I was asked to give a talk about contentment. At first I was taken aback. You see, in my mind, I had connected contentment with complacency. How many of you have made the same mistake? I say mistake, because I quickly realized that contentment and complacency do not have to be the same thing--far from it.

Happiness vs Achievement

U.S. students report higher self-confidence but lower math scores than students in Japan, Korea, and Singapore, according to findings from the Brookings Institute.

Happiness vs Contentment

Happiness is something that comes and goes. It is about excitement, fun, moments, actions, and material things. Contentment is something that lasts. It's about going with the flow, enjoying the satisfaction of work, and appreciating nature and life. Selfish people tend to strive for happiness and are less content. People who strive to be content tend to be more patient, caring, and happier. You can find happiness in money, pleasure, and doing what you want. You can find contentment in religion, family, giving, making other people happy, hard work, education, and exercise. Also, when you are content, your happy times are happier and your sadness is less sad. Self-indulgence makes you happy. Sacrifice makes you content.

Happiness vs Intelligence

Lisa Simpson: “As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs.”

Happiness vs Joy

I said in an earlier post that I’d say something about “happiness vs joy.” Sorry I didn’t get to it sooner. Life, you know.

Happiness vs Joy

Happiness is doing what you want, and joy is doing what God wants. This idea was brought to me by Thomas Hopko.

Happiness vs Joy

“Happy” or “happiness” is a word that has become so cliché; its meaning has become so very broad and vague, to the point of even usurping the seats of other words, for example “joy.” Still, whatever your definition of happiness, one thing is clear; it is a good word—a desirable word that one would like to describe one’s life.

Happiness vs Keeping The Peace

It's obvious in this living situation my happiness is not taken into consideration, or is even supposed to be a passing thought. If I bring it up, I'm being emotional! If I try to talk about it, I'm throwing a monkey wrench in "our" plans! THIS IS NOT MY LIFE PLAN!!

Happiness vs Laziness

My question is: If we can accept a synthetic happiness just as well as a natural happiness, should we? Can synthetic happiness be considered cowardly, if you are aware of it that is, can it be seen as unreal?

Happiness vs Meaning

Linderman: I think there comes a time when a man has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning.

Happiness vs Pleasure

We are a pleasure seeking society. Most of us spend our energy seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. We hope that by doing this, we will feel happy. Yet deep, abiding happiness and joy elude so many people.

Happiness vs Success

Is there a big difference between Success and Happiness? Are those words alike? Let's try to emphasis and illustrate those two meanings.

Guilt

2007-09-01T15:03:00.001-07:00

Avoiding Embarrassment vs Repentance

The disaffection most have with the war, I suspect, has to do with the sense of embarrassment with how the war is being conducted, not with that it was undertaken in the first place.

Guilt vs Conviction

This week I found myself in a quandry. I needed to make a decision and I made it. I sought the Lord first, I prayed, I wrestled with it - and then I acted. After the fact though I felt such a sense of oppression.

Guilt vs Regret

We have something in common. Abby was also at the sitters, and she died on her stomach. That really bothered me for a long time until I began hearing of all the infants that have died on their backs, being held, in a carseat, etc. I felt that I didn't do all that I should have by not "forcing" my sitter to put Abby on her side to sleep, and I truly believed for a short while that I was to blame for her death because of that (I still think my sister believes that's why Abby died). Now I know that there are no guarantees - no matter how "right" you do things, babies still die of SIDS. As long as you know in your heart that you nor your sitter did anything intentional to harm your child, you have to let it go someday. I still wonder about it, but I don't blame myself anymore.

Guilt vs Shame

When the West moved from a predominantly Shame based culture (which is tribal) to a guilt based culture (Judeo-Christian) modernity ensued.

Guilt vs Shame

Last week it was announced that nearly one million toys were recalled due to lead-containing paints used for various Mattel/Fisher Price toys manufactured in China. Yikes - that's a lot of Doras, Diegos and Elmos! :( Scary that such a large US retailer would let unsafe toys be distributed. Don't they test toys for safety issues? I trust that the toy companies are doing what's appropriate to rectify this. I've bought a lot of those Fisher Price toys!

Guilt vs Shame

Guilt works via individualism, privacy, introspection, ownership: I did this. Shame is communal, public, rhetorical, shared: we see that you did this.

Real Guilt vs False Guilt

We are invited by God to know the difference between real guilt and false guilt. Real guilt is simply triggered by our God-given conscience. No one makes you “feel” guilty; it is your conscience that convicts you. Real guilt is a gift from God that results in acknowledging your sin.

Shame vs Guilt/Embarassement

There is no standard distinction between shame and guilt. The cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict describes shame as a violation of cultural or social values while feelings of guilt arise from violations of internal values. It is possible to feel ashamed of thought or behavior that no one knows about as well as feeling guilty about actions that gain the approval of others.

Grief

2007-09-01T15:02:00.001-07:00

Grief vs Depression

Distinguishing between a dying patient’s normal grief and a major depression is a part of routine care for patients near the end-of-life. This Fast Fact will review the definitions and clinical features that distinguish these conditions.

Grief vs Bereavement

According to Wikipedia [link], there is a clear distinction between grief and bereavement, which is interesting. It also talks about the various stages of grief. I'm not advocating for 'binning' human emotion into such boxes, but let's say I'm in 'disorganisation and despair'... which only means I'm this much closer to 'reorganisation'. It's not to say I haven't felt like shit all week.

Grief vs Depression After A Bereavement

My mother died 10 months ago and my father has recently begun to hallucinate about her. Is this part of normal grief ?

Grief vs Trauma

from "The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children"

Grief vs The Over-Analytical, Over-Critical, Perfectionist Mind

So what does an over-analytical, over-critical, perfectionist mind try to do when faced with an incomprehensible situation such as bereavement by suicide?

Normal vs Prolonged/Complicated Grief

There are no research-based, widely supported criteria to distinguish normal from problematic grief. Bereaving individuals typically struggle with moderate levels of symptoms and have difficulty managing responsibilities, but they somehow struggle through these tasks and gradually return to their normal level of functioning. However, chronic grievers experience more intense symptoms and their daily life functioning is more severely impaired for at least a year after the loss.

Gratitude

2007-09-01T15:01:00.002-07:00

Gratitude Attitude vs Entitlement

Several of my readers have asked me if the hoopla about expressing gratitude—saying, thanks to everything in our life—is all what it is touted to be. It is important to question the latest buzz phrase or tagline. Many people, who followed the latest fad, discovered they were being duped by its originator.

Gratitude vs Entitlement

When you look at the big picture of your life, where you live, how you live, how much money you have, your health, your relationship or your job, do you sometimes feel life has cheated you in some way?

Gratitude vs Happy Memories

Even though I’m all about “loving yourself thin,” I have a low tolerance for hippie baloney. This article has a gratitude exercise that might help some to foster a more positive outlook, but it really wasn’t very helpful to me.

Gratitude vs Servitude

My wrong beliefs must be pushed out. But how? I’m addicted to self-trust, even if it’s the ironic self-trust of self-doubt. How do I get myself out of that picture? How do I finally come round to the rest and joy that so many others have found in finally being transformed by a clear picture of their union with Christ?

Immediate Gratification vs Immediate Experience

One common characterization or myth of young people, in particular young people of color, is that they seek out and desire immediate gratification. This prejudice is applicable to the sphere of youth popular music listening and creation.

Fear

2007-09-01T15:01:00.001-07:00

Fear Versus Anxiety

Quick! There’s an enraged tiger loose in the ofﬁce. Run!

Fear vs Greed

Something has been bothering me about a number of the companies that I've seen recently, and this article at the NY Times, about gadgets that seem to be selling well made me realize what it is. In an era where people are buying portable air-purifiers, potassium iodide tablets, and skyscraper parachutes, is it any surprise that IT spending is dominated by fear rather than by greed?

Fear vs Intuition

How do you know when it is your FEAR of something that is guiding your thoughts vs your INTUITION telling you what you should do?

Fear vs Phobia

The rush-hour collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis on August 1 is a tragedy that has extended well beyond the immediate disaster area. When such an event occurs, even those who did not experience it become fearful and anxious, wondering if it could happen to them. That’s a normal reaction, and it’s usually temporary. It’s also unlikely that high emotions will develop into a phobia.

Fear vs Phobia

Phobias come in many different forms. Acrophobia is the fear of heights. Aviophobia is the fear of flying. Felinophobia is the fear of cats. Myxophobia is the fear of slime. Xyrophobia is the fear of razors. While some are well-recognized, others are unheard of, but whatever the phobia, the person suffering from it is living with fear and anxiety.

Fear vs Shyness

This study attempted to distinguish between the ambivalent response of shyness and the more potent negative affect of fear in infancy. Sixty infants between 9 and 12 months of age participated in two laboratory situations: a nonsocial situation involving the presentation of a mechanical toy; and a social situation involving a standardized stranger approach.

Fear vs Volatility

Astute observers may have noticed several instances over the past few days where VIX tops and market bottoms have parted company. Part of the reason for this is that the fear component of the VIX has recently grown large enough that it has sometimes overshadowed the volatility component. We have a lot of volatility at the moment, but we have more fear than we have seen in a very long time.

Rational Fear vs Irrational Security

An interesting aspect of human behavior is the tendency to fear, sometimes irrationally, the unknown, the unthinkable, and the uncontrollable vs the limited fear of threats we understand or control, for example the classic fear of flying vs driving, with the latter causing a significantly higher casualty and death rate than the former.

Fanaticism

2007-09-01T14:29:00.001-07:00

Extremism vs Fanaticism

The War on Our Own Citizens continues. More precisely, Britain's war on its own citizens has just been initiated. In an earlier article, I described the devastating effect that the Western governments' reactions to the July 7, 2005, London terror attacks had on the liberty and privacy of air travelers.

Extremism vs Fanaticism

I've changed the tagline to this blog. "An extremist, not a fanatic" is intended to highlight a much overlooked distinction. It endorse A.J.P Taylor's quip - "extreme views, weakly held" - against the "passion" of our political leaders.

Passion vs Fanaticism

What puzzles me about so many people is not what they believe, but the sheer vehemence with which they do so.

Patriotism vs Fanaticism, Cynicism vs Realism

It's been almost 3 weeks since I came back from home, and I miss my family constantly. Sometimes, I envy my sister; she's only 45 minutes away from our parents. Of course, she's almost always twice as busy as I am and being older than I am, she ended up being a third parent. Okay, so maybe I don't always envy her.

Envy

2007-09-01T14:25:00.000-07:00

Envy vs Competition

Envy causes strife among family and friends. It has the potential to drive a wedge between the closest relationships to a point where people stop speaking to each other, and even avoid being in the presence of one another. Because of envy, some people rejoice in the misfortune of others. COMMENTARY When we envy the material things others have, we, in a sense, de-value our own possessions. We cannot appreciate the things we have. Competition, on the other hand, is different. Competitiveness in proper perspective is a wonderful thing. It is the ...

Envy vs Jealousy

Long lumped together by ordinary folks and scholars alike, envy and jealousy are not a single, formless "super emotion." On the contrary, they are distinct, with different components, and are in fact elicited by completely different situations and in completely different settings.

Envy vs Jealousy

Its been quite some time since I find myself mellowed down … with varying magnitudes at an assortment of junctures, the rationale being my quest to understand the intricacies of the human edge.

Envy vs Jealousy

I know several jealous people. It's evident in the way they speak about matters, it's evident in the way they present a topic, and it's often evident in their look. My husband and I refer to these people as "farbissiner" -- Yiddish for "bitten up" or "bitter". We might know it better as having a chip on one's shoulder. Usually bitterness is tied in with jealousy.

Jealousy vs Envy

This post explores the distinction between jealousy and envy, and ponders the reasons why the tools that polyamory provides for addressing/managing/avoiding/resolving jealousy do not work as well in dealing with envy.

Enlightenment

2007-09-01T14:24:00.000-07:00

Buddhist Enlightenment vs Nirvana

When I first started reading books on Buddhism back in the late 1970’s, I had trouble understanding *Nirvana and Enlightenment. These two words were often used interchangeably by authors writing on the *Theravada and *Mahayana traditions. Sometimes though, the meaning seemed to change depending on who was doing the writing.

Emotion vs Enthusiasm

Our mental approach will be to play with consistent enthusiasm and controlled emotion at all times!!! Enjoy the good things that happen during a game and learn from the bad but never dwell on either. When the next play starts you will be focused, enthusiastic, and confident that this play will be your best of the game with no memory of the last play. This approach will be our key to success!

Epiphany vs Evidence

During the past few years, Case Western Reserve University, California State University at Monterey Bay, and Duke University have each launched innovative, highly visible IT projects. The panel will focus on the evaluation/assessment challenges at each campus, what the larger campus community might learn from the IT initiatives and assessment efforts at each institution, and the broad institutional and public policy imperatives for IT learning outcomes and assessment.

Influence vs Inspiration

Are you referring to “inspiration” or “influence”? If “influence”, you can find plenty of it at the many web galleries that exist today. Influence is immediate and free for the taking. If “inspiration”, this is an on-going journey, in which one continually seeks to heighten his or her awareness of design in its many shapes and forms, as well as his or her understanding of the interplay between design and the cultural, social, and economic facets of society. Inspiration is not always immediate, and it has to be earned.

Praise vs Encouragement

Most of us believe that we need to praise our children more. However, there is some controversy regarding this point. If we always reward a child with praise after a task is completed, then the child comes to expect it. However, if praise is not forthcoming, then its absence may be interpreted by the child as failure.

Depression

2007-09-01T14:21:00.001-07:00

Bipolar Depression vs Major Depressive Disorder

Failure to recognize bipolar disorder in patients who experience a major depressive episode may lead to inappropriate treatment and poorer outcomes.

Bipolar Depression vs Unipolar Depression

Bipolar depression and unipolar depression may look very similar. These similarities often lead to bipolar depression being misdiagnosed, sometimes for years, before a person gets the correct diagnosis and thus the correct medicines for the condition.

Unipolar vs Bipolar Depression

Studies have shown that there are very distinctive differences between unipolar and bipolar depression.

Clinical Depression vs Sadness

Although depression is often thought of a being an extreme state of sadness, there is a vast difference between clinical depression and sadness. Sadness is a part of being human, a natural reaction to painful circumstances. All of us will experience sadness at some point in our lives. Depression, however, is a physical illness with many more symptoms than an unhappy mood.

Dementia vs Depression

from Brooke J. Cannon, Ph.D.

Depression vs Anxiety

There is often confusion between the causes of depression and anxiety. This short article gives a valuable insight into the causes and some warnings on what not to do.

Depression vs Anxiety

Depression scares me FAR more than anxiety! Granted, the anxiety I experience when I am late with my dose is far worse than what I had before starting the medication, but rather that even than Depression!

Depression vs Bipolar Disorder

Many individuals being treated for depression (major depressive disorder) are actually dealing with bipolar disorder—but they don’t know it yet because they haven’t recognized the symptoms.

Depression vs Bunched Panties

Now I'm about as psychotic as one person can get. so all the Tom Cruise scientology freaks can kiss my ass. I need the drugs. you don't want to know me with out them.

Depression vs Sadness

What is the difference between clinical depression and sadness?

Depression vs Sadness

How do you know when what you are experiencing is just a bad day or something more serious? We all have our ups and downs depending on how our day or week is going. The transition from bad day to rut to clinical depression can be gradual and leave even the strongest person thinking, "What is wrong with me? I just have to try harder! Why am I so lazy? Why can't I get out of bed?"

Depression vs Sadness

“…I realized that in depression, nothing matters. And in sadness, everything matters.”

Depression vs The Blues

It can be difficult to differentiate depression from a normal episode of "the blues." Everyone experiences the blues because of troubling events such as the loss of a loved one, job difficulties, money problems, family issues or illness.

Depression vs Unhappiness

There is something to be said here about the word "depression," which has almost entirely eliminated the word and even the concept of unhappiness from modern life.

Compassion

2007-09-01T14:18:00.000-07:00

Compassion vs Coercion

How odd that government – an institution run entirely on the basis of coercion (which is to say, on the basis of violence, both threatened and real) – presents itself, whenever possible, as a tool of compassion.

Compassion vs Compulsion

Forcing Americans to deprive their own children at the behest of officials eager to help those from other countries is compulsion, not compassion.

Compassion vs Sympathy

Do you know the difference between compassion and sympathy? Did you even know that there was a difference between the two? If not then I think you are in for a big surprise!

Conservative Compassion vs Liberal Pity

A remarkable feature of President Bush’s pronouncements is his unashamed use of the “L” word. Mr. Bush calls his political philosophy “compassionate conservatism,” but he is not afraid to say the older, stronger word that gives that philosophy its meaning. The word is love.

Apathy

2007-09-01T14:17:00.001-07:00

Apathy vs Depression

Apathy has been traditionally viewed as a feature of depression. Criteria for depression including poor concentration, difficulty making decisions, low self-esteem, markedly diminished interest, and feelings of hopelessness and fatigue are commonly manifest as loss of motivation (36). It is fair to question whether apathy can be clearly differentiated from depression and whether this distinction holds clinical relevance.

Emptiness vs Nothingness

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep." (Genesis, NKJ version).

Tolerance vs Apathy

Anxiety

2007-09-01T14:06:00.000-07:00

Anxiety vs Anxiety Disorder

Symptoms of anxiety are more prevalent than the common cold. Who hasn't experienced a knot in the stomach, heart palpitations, sweaty palms, worrying, irritability, difficulty concentrating, muscle tension, a dry mouth, difficulty sleeping or restlessness? Who hasn't felt "wired" or found that they were easily fatigued? These feelings and symptoms are ubiquitous.But, how does one know when these symptoms are an anticipated, reasonable reaction to endless gridlock, long commutes and the pervasive workaholism that is endemic to the greater metropolitan area? Or, how does one know when they are indicative of a more significant problem? Once one has determined that their symptoms warrant evaluation, how does one go about seeking treatment? What sorts of treatment options are available?

Anxiety vs Dread

When is fear coming from your own thoughts and when is it coming from real and present danger? Learn to distinguish the difference between anxiety and dread.

Anxiety vs Fear

In some ways, there is a difference between fear and the mental illness called "anxiety." Fear usually has an underlying rationale. Anxiety may find a rationale, but it often is just fear for its own vile self. For example, I am often terrified to leave my house. There is no reason I am terrified. But it is there and it is often overwhelming.

Common Anxiety and Depression vs Psychotic Disorders

Recently, while moderating on a forum, someone posted about being diagnosed by an MD, with “Bipolar Disorder" and they were prescribed an anti-psychotic drug for this. While these type drugs are extremely needful and very helpful to people who do indeed need them for psychotic disorders they may be suffering, at the same time, I believe any patient in doubt about a diagnosis, should seek confirmation of needing such a drug. Sometimes a second opinion by another qualified mental health professional, is needed because these drugs are powerful and should only be prescribed to patients who actually have these psychotic disorders.

Panic/Anxiety/Depression vs Personality Disorder

I am a 42 year old female. I have suffered from depression and "nervousness" my entire life. I began self-mulilating at 7 yrs old.

Social Anxiety vs Performance Anxiety

I think it’s often hard to separate social anxiety from performance anxiety. After all, isn’t the reason we don’t want to be in a room with a bunch of strangers the fact that we aren’t sure how to act or what to say to them? If we didn’t have to worry about our performance, what would be the big deal?

Social Anxiety vs Shyness

For people with social anxiety disorder or social phobia, everyday social situations involve overwhelming anxiety and self-consciousness. The intensity of these feelings varies from person to person, and not every person with social anxiety disorder fears the same types of situations.

Stress vs Anxiety

Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, nervous, or even anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another.

Anticipation

2007-09-01T09:57:00.001-07:00

Anticipation vs Action

Earlier this year I have seen The Red Hot Chili Peppers, AudioSlave, Seether, hockey, and a play in NYC. I also have went to the worlds best search engine marketing confrence, and visited one of the worlds top marketers in his office.

Anticipation vs Assumption

In order to survive crossing the streets of Chicago (or any large city I suppose) one must anticipate not assume approaching cars are going to stop at red lights. This, I thought, is a good way to explain how I as an interaction/interface designer try to design things. When designing something I think it’s a good idea to try to anticipate what and how someone may use what I design not assume how they are going to use it.

Anticipation vs Expectation

As I get older I find that I don't anticipate as much as I did when I was younger, and that's a shame. Half the fun of life is looking forward to what is going to happen. A lot of times when things actually happen they are a disappointment, but anticipation never is.

Anticipation vs Nervousness

When you wake up on exam day, one of two things is going to happen. Well, yes, you're going to pass or fail. But what I'm thinking of comes before that, and has a lot to do with how you perform on exam day. You're either going to have a tremendous feeling of anticipation or the dreaded feeling of being nervous about it.

Anticipation vs Prediction

Oftentimes, technical analysis is referred to as some sort of black magic used to time the market. However, what many outside of the financial world don't realize is that traders don't try to predict the future. Instead, they create strategies that have a high probability of succeeding - situations where a trend or market movement can be anticipated.

Anticipation vs Motivation

So you know how sometimes people make that philosophical/psychological argument that there really isn't a difference between motivation to receive a positive reward and motivation to avoid a negative penalty? As in, all we can really measure is the absolute difference between the reward and the pentaly, the motivation being proportional to that value.