Every generation faces its own unique challenges. In the digital age of smartphones, social media, and artificial intelligence (AI), today’s students have to up their critical thinking game.

The most common mental health conditions in the world are anxiety disorders. This includes adolescents and teens. At first glance, you might think this has led to a dramatic increase in focus and awareness.

We are no strangers to the fact that naming a treatment option something like “qEEG-based swLoreta neurofeedback” might seem a little bit… intimidating. (Not to mention the electrode-laden skullcaps and the soft needle syringe full of goo.)

Besides the virus itself, we had to learn to deal with all of the secondary effects of a global lockdown – disruptions to our daily routines, more time spent indoors in close quarters with others, and reduced access to many of the activities many of us used to balance out the already-considerable stresses of the usual day to day life’s tasks – and all of these continue to affect our neurology and mental health even as the world at large has slowly begun to open back up.

Do you get nervous before you have to give a big presentation? Though you try to focus on your task, do you get caught up in what other people might be thinking about you? Perhaps you experience physical symptoms like clammy hands, a rapid heartbeat, or tense muscles. If any of this sounds familiar, you may have performance anxiety.