How virtual reality therapy can help make bad memories more manageable
For war veterans and others, the method may treat schizophrenia, dementia, PTSD, substance addiction and some phobias, psychiatrists say. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - September 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kenneth Rosen Source Type: news
Too many men ignore their depression, phobias, other mental health issues
But there are ways to encourage them to get the help they need — when they need it. Here are some tips. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - July 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joseph Harper Source Type: news
Super-natural fears - Coelho C, Zsido AN, Suttiwan P, Clasen M.
Supernatural fears, although common, are not as well-understood as natural fears and phobias (e.g., social, blood, and animal phobias) which are prepared by evolution, such that they are easily acquired through direct experience and relatively immune to co... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 3, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Virtual Reality Therapy Plunges Patients Back Into Trauma. Here Is Why Some Swear by It.
An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - June 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dani Blum Tags: Anxiety and Stress Veterans Psychology and Psychologists Virtual Reality (Computers) Phobias Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Research Mental Health and Disorders Veterans Affairs Department Source Type: news
Cicadas, snakes, mice — phobias of insects and other things can shrink people’s lives
But research shows that cognitive behavior therapy can effectively treat irrational fears, in both adults and children. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - April 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jelena Kecmanovic Source Type: news
Trillions of ‘Brood X’ Cicadas Are About to Emerge Across the U.S. to Sing, Mate and Die. Here’s What to Expect
This coming May, millions of people around the United States will have front-row seats to an extraordinary entomological event: Trillions of Brood X cicadas across 15 states will emerge almost synchronously after having spent the last 17 years underground. The males will take up elevated positions, each buzzing as loud as a lawnmower to attract females. After mating, the adult cicadas will die off en masse just about as quickly as they arrived—likely sometime in late June or July—while their offspring tunnel underground, not to emerge until 2038, when the dance will begin anew.
Annual, or “dog day,”...
Source: TIME: Science - April 14, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Katzman Tags: Uncategorized animals Environment News Source Type: news
Music Therapy: Why Doctors Use it to Help Patients Cope
Music therapy is increasingly used to help patients cope with stress and promote healing. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Richard Schiffman Tags: Harps Anxiety and Stress Music Phobias Content Type: Service Hospitals Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Musical Instruments Surgery and Surgeons Psychology and Psychologists Cancer Source Type: news
Augmenting exposure therapy: International collaboration and technological innovation for specific phobia
PsychSolutions finalists use a smartphone app to help treat specific phobias through augmented reality. (Source: PsycPORT.com)
Source: PsycPORT.com - April 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
How to Get Vaccinated If You're Afraid of Needles
There are ways to overcome a fear of needles. Here ’s how. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Daniel Victor Tags: Quarantine (Life and Culture) Content Type: Service Fear (Emotion) Anxiety and Stress Phobias Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Source Type: news
What Are Generalized Anxiety Disorder Treatment Components?
Discussion
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is “…excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events and activities coupled with at least one physical symptom, which may include fatigue, poor concentration, restlessness, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep difficulties.” Other ways it presents to the primary care office may be abdominal pain, headache or heart palpitations, dizziness, syncope, numbness, trembling, paresthesia, memory loss, or urinary frequency. It has an estimated prevalence of 15% and is the second most common anxiety disorder in children after social anxiety disorder. GAD can com...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 15, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Jordan North health: I'm A Celeb star has 'so many phobias' - treatment to face your fears
JORDAN NORTH has become one of the most popular I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! campers, after facing his fears on numerous occasions. The Radio 1 DJ admits that he has "so many phobias". This is a simple treatment to relieve your fear anxiety. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Are the Top 10 Phobias
? (Source: eMedicineHealth.com)
Source: eMedicineHealth.com - October 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
How to get rid of a phobia: The simple exercise to overcome your fear of animals or places
HOW to get rid of a phobia: A phobia is a type of overwhelming fear that affects people in different ways. You could overcome your phobias of animals or places with this simple eye exercise. Should you consider therapy? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Moving Beyond the Anxiety and Perfectionism Feedback Loop
Forget everything you thought you knew about anxiety and perfectionism. Here’s an inside look at what actually works.
We all feel the need to be accepted, to fit in, feel loved, and that we matter to someone or something.
As someone who struggles with anxiety myself, I understand how hard it is to combat the anxiety feedback loop. As a psychologist who has worked with this material for nearly a decade, I supposedly know all the tricks in the book. I have a tool kit 10 pages deep ready to go whenever I experience a bout of anxiety. Even still, I struggle to practice what I preach.
Moving beyond this feedback loop indu...
Source: Psych Central - July 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jennifer Anders, PsyD. Tags: Anxiety Perfectionism Psychology Intrusive Thoughts Self Worth Self-Esteem Source Type: news
Physiological synchrony predicts observational threat learning in humans - P ärnamets P, Espinosa L, Olsson A.
Understanding how information about threats in the environment is shared and transmitted between individuals is crucial for explaining adaptive, survival-related behaviour in humans and other animals, and for developing treatments for phobias and other anx... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
