“A device can be considered FDA-cleared if the manufacturer and the FDA agree that it is very similar to another device already on the market and is deemed safe to use. Becoming FDA-approved is a more rigorous process, used for devices for which there aren’t other, similar approved models on the market. What makes it even more confusing is that some devices may be FDA-cleared for one indication but used and marketed by physicians for a completely different indication. For example, some devices may be FDA-cleared for pain reduction, yet plastic surgeons use them to reduce fat.”
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“Either way, whether your anxiety is self-generated or externally-generated or both, your brain still needs to sound the alarm – and thank goodness it does! It’s essentially telling you: ‘Warning, something is sabotaging or might sabotage your goals, health, happiness and survival – find it, fix it!’ to which your mental response should be, ‘Gee, thanks, I’m on it!”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is just our brain’s way of trying to keep us alive and
well; it is simply, and fortunately, one of our many in-built survival
mechanisms. Just as we feel pain when we burn our skin which
tells us to move away from the cause of the pain, we experience
anxiety when the brain perceives a threat to our well-being and is
telling us to prevent or extinguish the threat/danger.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”
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“Anxiety is our friend, not our
enemy. Even when anxiety is severe and out of control, it’s still
our friend because it’s telling us something seriously needs
addressing in order for us to survive and thrive, even if that severe
anxiety is a sign that our alerting system is unnecessarily working
overtime or even ‘malfunctioning’ of sorts.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Don’t choose to live with anxiety any more than you would choose to live with a bleeding arm.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Anxiety is not intended for us to live with it. You use anxiety to your advantage to protect your mental and physical well-being and survival from a threat or danger.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“Rumination doesn’t solve anything, reflection and introspection can solve all.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm
“It’s weird how much just one sentence uttered to yourself about the thing that you are doing, as you are doing it, can noticeably alter your behaviour right there and then. Just start watching how your thoughts play out.”
“Always being busy is not the sign of a winner, it’s the sign of your life being out of balance.”
Source: Anxiety Free: How to Trust Yourself and Feel Calm