Panic Disorder: Final Steps in Treatment
After treatment of panic disorder has progressed almost to the end, there are some things to keep in mind to make the treatment a success. A word about how to live after recovery.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fredric Neuman, M.D. Tags: Anxiety Resilience Self-Help Therapy final strategies in panic disorder outlasting the panic attack panic attacks and self-control stage fright and phobias stuck points trying to get lost trying to get panicky Source Type: news
What Are You So Afraid Of?
Ask almost anyone you meet and they’ll claim they have a phobia of some kind – However, it is far from clear where phobias come from.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Graham C.L. Davey, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Psychiatry Stress Source Type: news
Almost All You Need to Know About Phobias
Ask almost anyone you meet and they’ll claim they have a phobia of some kind – However, it is far from clear where phobias come from.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Graham C.L. Davey, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Psychiatry Stress Source Type: news
Anxiety is bad for health
The report, Living with Anxiety, is part of a campaign to raise awareness and understanding of anxiety and its potentially debilitating effect on the nation’s mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Although anxiety is a natural human emotion, the more anxiety that people feel, the more they are likely to be tipped over in to diagnosable anxiety disorders, such as panic, phobias and obsessive behaviours, and to experience poor emotional wellbeing and personal distress. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - May 13, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
Panic Disorder and Mitral Valve Prolapse
Mitral valve prolapse is often described in connection with panic disorder. An explanation of the possible relationship.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 6, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fredric Neuman, M.D. Tags: Anxiety Health Integrative Medicine Stress . Bet-blockers and anxiety health anxiety and mitral valve prolapse mitral valve prolapse and palpitations panic disorder and mitral valve prolapse phobias and health anxiety Source Type: news
Three Ways To Face Your Phobia
Spiders, snakes, planes, dogs, enclosed spaces? What are you afraid of? Phobias are specific fears that interfere with our lives. Find out if your fear is a phobia and if it is, what you can do to overcome it!read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - May 5, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jonathan Fader, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety anxieties cognitive behavior therapy cognitive behavioral therapy fear phobia Phobias Source Type: news
Brain circuits involved in emotion discovered by neuroscientists
A brain pathway that underlies the emotional behaviors critical for survival have been discovered by neuroscientists. The team has identified a chain of neural connections which links central survival circuits to the spinal cord, causing the body to freeze when experiencing fear. Understanding how these central neural pathways work is a fundamental step towards developing effective treatments for emotional disorders such as anxiety, panic attacks and phobias. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - April 23, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Beyond Panic Disorder: A Way of Living
Curing panic disorder is relatively simple, although difficult. A phobic point of view can persist, however, in which all of life is constrained by fears. Further treatment can allow patients to live more fully and appreciate life as an adventure.read more (Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center)
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - April 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fredric Neuman, M.D. Tags: Anxiety Behavioral Economics Happiness Relationships beyond panic disorder cognitive-behavioral treatment exposure therapy of phobias growing up unafraid life as an adventure living properly living unafraid Source Type: news
What Therapy Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Not just dogs and horses are used in animal-assisted therapy. Llamas, cats, birds, dolphins, rabbits, donkeys, even wolves, to name a few, are used to form a connection with those who need help, whether dealing with addictions, depression, schizophrenia, phobias, PTSD, or a host of other issues.
read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - April 7, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: David Sack, M.D. Tags: Addiction Therapy animal-assisted therapy equine-assisted therapy pet psychotherapy pet-mediated therapy wolf therapy Source Type: news
Anafranil / Clomipramine Side Effects
Catalogue of side effects for the medication Anafranil - generic Clomipramine - an antidepressant used in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder, self-injury, panic attacks, phobias, depression, migraines and other comorbid symptoms of bipolar disorder. (Source: About.com Bipolar Disorder)
Source: About.com Bipolar Disorder - March 26, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: bipolar.guide at about.com Tags: health Source Type: news
What are your top five fears? | Open thread
A YouGov survey has identified the top five phobias of British people. Unsurprisingly they include heights, snakes and spiders. Tell us your worst fearsA YouGov survey of 2,000 people has ranked the things that British people are most afraid of. The survey asked people to rate a list of 13 phobias, and asked them to describe their fear levels for each one. Here were the top five things that terrified us:HeightsUnsurprisingly, a fear of heights tops the list. We're not a nation of skyscrapers and vertiginous mountains. Most of us would rather not look over the edge of the Grand Canyon or climb a unsteady pylon for the rush ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 25, 2014 Category: Science Tags: Comment Psychology theguardian.com UK news Science Comment is free Source Type: news
Do You Suffer From Severe Anxiety?
Stossel, likely a 6-Questioner in the Enneagram system, tried dozens of drugs and alcohol. Then his therapist thought writing a book might help him get to the bottom of it.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - February 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Wagele Tags: Anxiety Personality genes overcoming phobias writing therapy Source Type: news
The Bedbug Dilemma
A symptom may hide much deeper conflicts.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 16, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mark Rubinstein, M.D. Tags: Anxiety fear medication Phobias psychotherapy symptoms Source Type: news
Desensitization Works For Other Phobias. Why Not Flying?
For most phobias, systematic desensitization, developed by Joseph Wolpe, can be used to gradually expose the amygdala to a phobic situation. By gradual exposure, the amygdala becomes accoustomed to the situation and stops responding with the release of stress hormones.
Another type of desensitization, flooding, repeatedly exposes the client fully to the situation.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - January 14, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Captain Tom Bunn, L.C.S.W. Tags: Anxiety Neuroscience Self-Help Stress desensitization fear of flying Source Type: news
How an elastic band can help beat phobias
A PSYCHOLOGIST offers calming techniques such as deep breathing, positive mantras and twanging a rubber band on your wrist to stop irrational fears in their tracks (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
