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21st September 2009
At some point in life, almost everyone experiences anxiety. Perhaps you feel uncomfortable in the moments leading up to an important test, maybe you get the jitters the night before your wedding, or perhaps you have a case of the butterflies before you ge... Read >
Author: wbdoyle21st September 2009
Anxiety is a common occurrence when a person faces potentially problematic or dangerous situations. It is also felt when a person perceives an external threat. However, chronic and irrational anxiety can lead to a form of anxiety disorder. There are diffe... Read >
Author: wbdoyle30th July 2009
Anxiety is a spontaneous and natural reaction of the body which includes the brain (psychological) and the body (physical).
Anxiety is a mechanism that sets the “siren” off or like an alarm system that turns on when our bodies discover we are a... Read >
Author: harzt0316th July 2009
Everybody knows what it feels like to be anxious- you feel butterflies in your stomach your actions become topsy-turvy, you can almost hear your heart beat right next to your ears, and you are sweating like you are jogging. These are what you go through c... Read >
Author: alnmccarth08th July 2009
We all know what anxiety feels like - butterflies in the stomach, all emotions turned upside down, heart beating violently, furious sweating. All of us have come face to face with an anxiety attack at some point in our lives. Maybe it was before your spea... Read >
Author: georgerydley30th June 2009
Anxiety: Is it All in Your Head?
*What is anxiety, and when is it more than natural worry?
We all feel anxious and worried at times. Our bodies are naturally wired with the so-called fight-or-flight mechanism which is triggered in response to stres... Read >
Author: HealthRemedies18th June 2009
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Some of us don't pay attention to mental disorders since many of us are not faced with these things all too often. We might only know about some of them through TV programs or movies we may have watched. One that come... Read >
Author: Regina Jacques24th February 2009
Actually, what is a panic attack? Nothing but a person's intense fear or anxiety occurs suddenly without any warning. Panic attacks are usually a product of your own thinking. Only when you peacefully break them down into their different components and an... Read >
Author: Ashish24th February 2009
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and it also helps you cope in tense situations.
Everyone knows what it feels like to be anxious- you feel butterflies in your stomach your actions become topsy-turvy, you can almost hear your heart beat right nex... Read >
Author: Jocelyn Snider21st January 2009
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a relatively new Alternative Medicine emotional therapy, developed in the mid 1990s. It is not at all like the practice of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, or any kind of conventional talk therapy. EFT has bee... Read >
Author: Dr. Theodore Herazy27th October 2008
The fear of flying is a highly complex issue and affects significant numbers of people but there are ways and means of dealing with the inordinate and unrealistic fear of flying.
It is either the onset of a dedicated phobia, also known as aerophobia or... Read >
Author: Kayla Reid13th October 2008
Anxiety disorders are not the same as the nervousness or anxiety we all experience before taking an exam, making an important decision, or dealing with a problem at work. They are different in that they interfere with your ability to lead a normal life.
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Author: Robert Palmer12th September 2008
We are in the 21st century, so high-tech gadgets would, of course, present themselves to treat phobias and fears. In actuality, virtual reality has proven to be quite effective in treating phobias - especially arachnophobia.
This is one therapy you w... Read >
Author: Joan Shine10th September 2008
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a relatively new Alternative Medicine emotional therapy, developed in the mid 1990s. It is not at all like the practice of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, or any kind of conventional talk therapy. EFT has bee... Read >
Author: Dr. Theodore Herazy08th September 2008
Arachnophobia is the extreme, debilitating, and persistent fear of spiders. It is not the rational fear of spider bites, not the sensible caution of avoiding old wood piles where the brown recluse like to lurk, not the refusal to handle a pet tarantula, b... Read >
Author: Joan Shine02nd September 2008
Anxiety disorders are the most usually psychiatric diseases touching children and adults. Anxiety attacks generally come without warning. Anxiety disorders often are conceptualized as an abnormal or exaggerated version of arousal. Anxiety disorder or GAD ... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen26th March 2008
ANXIETY
The feeling of anxiety is common to all and we have all felt it many times in the course of our lives. But when anxiety becomes an excessive, irrational dread of everyday situations, it becomes a disorder.
Nearly 40 million people above the... Read >
Author: cathy M Ross22nd January 2008
Anxiety is part of our natural "fight-or-flight" response. It's our body's way of warning us of possible danger ahead. Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of abnormal, pathological anxiety, fears, phobias. Anxiety disorders... Read >
Author: Juliet Cohen01st July 2007
Anxiety is a disorder that can take total control over one’s life and leave one feeling alone and helpless. When this disorder affects children, the situation become worse as the child is not able to distinguish fears which can be overcome.
Children... Read >
Author: Alien30th June 2007
Anxiety disorder afflictions affect about 40 million American adults each year. The various anxiety disorder symptoms can cause sufferers to be filled with fear and uncertainty. Ordinary, mild but brief forms of anxiety can be caused by a stressful event ... Read >
Author: Krishan Bakhru18th June 2007
Anxiety Disorders affect about 40 million American adults age 18 years and older (about 18%) in a given year,1causing them to be filled with fearfulness and uncertainty. Unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety caused by a stressful event (such as speaki... Read >
Author: Arthur Buchanan06th March 2007
Anxiety disorders: an overview
Anxiety can be defined as:
1. a nervousness, agitation, or worry, often about a future circumstance or event
2. a state of apprehension or fear of a real or imagined danger
Anxiety is an emotional state that’s ca... Read >
Author: JD20th February 2007
A panic attack is a sudden feeling of extreme anxiety accompanied by significant physical symptoms such as trembling, sweating and shortness of breath. They are usually accompanied by an overwhelming fear of catastrophe – the person may feel they are dy... Read >
Author: Karen Hastings19th November 2006
Anxiety is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, or before taking a test or making an important decision. Anxiety disorders, however, are different. They can cau... Read >
Author: Arthur Buchanan19th November 2006
Anxiety is a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people feel anxious, or nervous, when faced with a problem at work, or before taking a test or making an important decision. Anxiety disorders, however, are different. They can cau... Read >
Author: Arthur Buchanan06th January 2006
Psychiatry identifies three different categories of phobia:
Agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces. It is also a fear of having a panic attack in a public place, of losing control in an area from which escape may prove difficult or embarrassing.
Socia... Read >
Author: Steve Hill
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