Telling Your Family And Friends About A Mental Health Issue
Due to the stigma attached to mental health issues, it may feel too difficult for you to confide in your family or friends about your condition. You may feel that your confession will be laughed off as being all in "your head", or that it will change the way people look at you. In many cases the fear will be disproportionate to reality – but then, this is how mental health issues affect people. Some have the opinion that mental health issues are somehow less serious than physical conditions. Because a physical condition is often something that can be seen, there ...
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Anxiety is at the crux of a great deal of mental illnesses. The pain of a mental illness is that it comes from within you and attacks you with weapons you have unknowingly given it. Due to this, anxiety is a very powerful influence on mental illness – because no-one knows what you are afraid of better than you do, your brain will in its disordered state confront you with the things that scare you and make you anxious. As a consequence you will find it all the harder to beat the problem because part of you is causing it. ...
The Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
It may seem like a bit of a mouthful, but Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (known as CBT) is one of the foremost treatments for anxiety and panic disorders - and also one of the most effective. Many patients find a combination of CBT and traditional psychiatrist help and assessment is just what they need to combat their anxiety problems. CBT is based on retraining the way they brain thinks. When someone suffers from an anxiety problem, it is because their mind is making a subconscious decision or overreaction to a particular stimulus. CBT is designed to find the root cause of ...
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Phobia vs. Fear – Is There A Difference?
Everybody is afraid of something. We may be a little afraid of the dark or nervous when we see a snake or a spider. Fear is just nature’s way of warding us from danger, telling us to flee from things we are subconsciously afraid of. Yet in some cases, fear becomes something more – a phobia. There is a difference between general fear and... [Read more of this article]
What To Do When Anxiety Strikes
Panic attacks can be the bane of your existence, and can make being out and about in the world extremely daunting. Never knowing when – or why – an attack can hit makes life unpredictable, and searching for a way to control your anxiety is a natural step to take. Some anxiety attacks come on suddenly – however, there are usually... [Read more of this article]
Conquering Fear – How To Fight Your Phobia And Win
The guide below is a brief, start up guide for those wishing to conquer their phobia (or phobias) once and for all. For ease of use, the fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia) is used as an example – though the steps are applicable to any fear. 1. Gradually expose yourself to the fear. If you have a phobia, you probably go out of your way to... [Read more of this article]
Anti-anxiety medications: Do they work long term?
We live in a fix-all society, where we are all programmed to think that problems can be fixed quickly and easily. This “have it all, now” mentally extends throughout our lives, and even into our health. It is therefore understandable that, for most people, going to see a doctor and getting medication is the obvious answer to any malady.... [Read more of this article]
Exposure Therapy: The End To All Anxiety?
Exposure therapy is nothing revolutionary, but it is now being recognized as an effective method of conquering people’s fears and anxieties. It is now regularly included in a program of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which itself is one of the most useful ways of treating a phobia or anxiety program There is no doubt that exposure therapy is... [Read more of this article]
Can Herbal Medicine Cure Anxiety Problems?
In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the world went mad for Prozac. Everyone, seemingly, was on the most famous anti-depressant of them all… until a few, select clinical studies showed it could actually worsen symptoms. Even though expert doctors tried to stress that Prozac was completely safe in all but a few cases (as with any drug), the damage... [Read more of this article]
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