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Generalized anxiety disorders twice as likely in those with inflammatory bowel disease
(University of Toronto) People who have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, have twice the odds of having a generalized anxiety disorder at some point in their lives when compared to peers without IBD, according to a new study published by University of Toronto researchers. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 29, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

OCD and Insight
Before my son Dan was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, I had little to no experience dealing with people who suffered from brain disorders. My preconceived belief was that those who had these illnesses didn’t really understand, or have insight into, what was “wrong” with them. They needed to see a professional who would know how to treat them with the right type of therapy or medication, and maybe try to help them understand their illness a little. I believed therapy was something done to people, not with them. Why did I think this way? Where did it come from? I don’t really know, but it was pure ignor...
Source: Psych Central - July 16, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Disorders General Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Parenting Personal Stories Psychology Psychotherapy Insight Mental Disorder Source Type: news

How I Finally Made Peace With My Anxiety Disorder
I sank into the faded green couch and prepared to tell another stranger about a part of myself I'd been trying to get rid of since I was a child; to describe what it feels like on those rare occasions when my brain tells me to run from everything; when even the most mundane daily tasks -- driving to the store, making plans -- can trigger a fight-or-flight response so intense that my vision blurs, my heart palpitates, my palms perspire, and I am left gasping for breath. Anyone who believes anxiety is purely a mental phenomenon has never had a panic attack. As I prepared to tell this man about the inner workings of my psyc...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Antidepressant May Aid in Treatment of AnxietyAntidepressant May Aid in Treatment of Anxiety
The antidepressant drug vilazodone was effective in reducing the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in a placebo-controlled, flexible-dose study. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - June 29, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Identifying Anxiety Disorders in Children
Learn how to identify common symptoms of generalized anxiety in kids and teens. (Source: About.com Generalized Anxiety)
Source: About.com Generalized Anxiety - June 26, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: health Source Type: news

Being a 'couch potato' linked to increased anxiety risk
ConclusionThis systematic review suggests that the more time people are sedentary (not moving much), the higher the risk of anxiety symptoms.It has strengths in its systematic review methods, searching the literature for studies published over 25 years that examined the association, and assessing the quality of these studies. However, the results are only as reliable as the studies it includes. There are also important limitations to consider: The majority of studies in this review – seven of nine – were cross sectional. This means they questioned sedentary time and anxiety symptoms at once. These studies can show a...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Mental health Neurology Source Type: news

Psychiatric and substance-use comorbidities associated with lifetime crack cocaine use in young adults in the general population - Narvaez JC, Jansen K, Pinheiro RT, Kapczinski F, Silva RA, Pechansky F, Magalhães PV.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between lifetime crack cocaine use and psychiatric (post-traumatic stress disorder, current depression, current dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder with agoraphobia, social phobia, as well as SRQ sco... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Correspondence between self-report measures and clinician assessments of psychopathology in female intimate partner violence survivors - Cody MW, Jones JM, Woodward MJ, Simmons CA, Gayle Beck J.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has potentially severe and long-lasting mental health consequences for survivors, including elevated symptoms and diagnoses of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The cur... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - June 12, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A definition of Generalized Anxiety Disorder with links to more information. (Source: About.com Mental Health)
Source: About.com Mental Health - June 11, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: health Source Type: news

7 Things to Know About Mental Health After a Disaster
Are disasters becoming part of the new normal? Or have disasters become our new (ab)normal? Disasters are extraordinarily varied in their nature, ranging from accidents (from local motor vehicle accidents to major train or plane crashes); natural catastrophes (like the recent floods in Oklahoma and Texas, hurricanes like Katrina and Sandy, and earthquakes, fires and tsunami); and acts of terrorism (including school and mall mass murders, the Boston bombing and 9/11). Their settings are also diverse, from dense urban to rural, isolated areas. Yet one thing disasters have in common is that stress and distress are ubiquito...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Responding to Stress With Attention, Care and Connection
This article originally appeared in Ornish Living. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Children with autism may be supersensitive to change
Conclusion Overall, this study in a rat model of autism seems to support what is generally already understood about ASD: affected individuals often feel more comfortable with set patterns, routines and environments, and may find unpredictability more challenging. However, it is hard to draw many solid conclusions from this study, particularly because it is difficult to know exactly how representative this rat model of autism is of humans with autism. Animal research can often give a good insight into biological and disease processes and how they may work in humans, but we are not identical. With a complex condition such ...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology Mental health Pregnancy/child Source Type: news

Screening instruments for a population of older adults: The 10-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) and the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) - Vasiliadis HM, Chudzinski V, Gontijo-Guerra S, Préville M.
Screening tools that appropriately detect older adults׳ mental disorders are of great public health importance. The present study aimed to establish cutoff scores for the 10-item Kessler Psychological Distress (K10) and the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Diso... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 20, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

An open trial of emotion regulation therapy for generalized anxiety disorder and cooccurring depression - Mennin DS, Fresco DM, Ritter M, Heimberg RG.
BACKGROUND: Although CBT is efficacious for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, relatively fewer GAD patients achieve high endstate functioning as compared to patients receiving CBTs for other disorders. Moreover, GAD trials that utilized patient sam... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 20, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news

21 Anxiety Triggers That Might Surprise You
If you suffer from anxiety, you're not alone. Anxiety disorders affect 40 million U.S. adults, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Doctors typically diagnose patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder if they suffer from symptoms of anxiety (constant worry, insomnia, difficulty concentration and more) for more than six months. But according to Everyday Health, almost all of us have experienced anxiety at some point. What triggers those feelings of panic and worry that we're oh-so-familiar with? We reached out to HuffPost Lifestyle's Facebook community and got some honest, heartfelt answers ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news