Overmedication of Depressed Individuals

It is a common method of treating symptoms in the 21st century: you walk into the doctor’s office, you describe your symptoms to the nurse, the doctor comes in and reads a sheet of paper then asks you a couple of cursory questions before writing a prescription and telling you to ‘have a nice day’. [...]

Seasonal Affective Disorder: Symptoms and Treatments for “SAD” Depression

First mentioned in medical literature in 1985, Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, also known as the winter blues or winter depression, is among the newer recognized medical conditions. It tends to affect those who live away from the equator, in northern climes, and is quite common in places where there is often snow for much [...]

Preventing Acute Anxiety from Becoming Chronic

For the majority of the population, anxiety, stress, fear and worry need do not cause illness, since strong feelings subside after the stressful situation has passed. Butterflies tend to abate once a speech has commenced before a large audience; fear immediately recedes when a mother learns that her son is unhurt and safe after a [...]

When Panic Strikes Without Stopping

Panic is a form of short term anxiety and is a natural self-defensive mechanism in response to a perceived threat or danger.  The body’s autonomic system activates a physical and emotional retaliation and initiates the “fight or flight” response, to control bodily functions and psychological reactions in situations of acute stress.  Respiration and heart rates [...]

When Anxiety Becomes Aggravating

Anxiety disorders represent one of the most common mental illnesses, afflicting approximately one in 10 in the general population.  In ordinary life, everyone experiences some form of anxiety.  When a threatening situation is perceived, a life changing decision is made, a test result is expected, or good or bad news is anticipated, acute anxiety and [...]

What is NLP?

Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP, is a fairly new discipline that is slowly gaining acceptance and popularity in the field of alternative medicine. It is a behavioral technology that falls under the classification of mind-body medicine. NLP uses the mind-body connection to help an individual heal. It enhances the mind’s capacity to affect physiological functions [...]

Stress: The Prime Cause of Anxiety

Living with stress is a fact of life, one that everyone must cope with.  Each day, individuals must make decisions under varying degrees of stress.  While stress itself can be helpful, exposure to chronic levels can change bodily functions and, unless it is relieved, can create long term anxiety problems in individuals, including Generalized Anxiety [...]

The CBT Self-Help Solution for Panic Attack Sufferers

While panic attacks alone are not dangerous, living under the constant fear and threat of an impending attack is socially and emotionally incapacitating.  Fortunately, panic attacks can be controlled, lessened and even eliminated altogether, by taking control of the underlying anxiety fuelling the panic attacks through self, group or individual therapy. Many sufferers often combine [...]

Studies on GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorders)

Generalized anxiety disorders remain one of the most common forms of anxiety disorders found in the general population, yet are the least studied despite their prevalence and disturbing psychological effect on sufferers.  As its name suggests, Generalized Anxiety Disorders involve excessive, unrelenting, omnipresent general anxiety about issues that cause ordinary people only infrequent or intermittent [...]

Situational Vs Spontaneous Panic Disorder: How to Know

The onset of a panic attack can be an unpredictable and unnatural bodily response to a false sense of danger or, depending upon the sufferer, a predictable manifestation of a deeply ingrained or specific phobia. A 1991 study conducted by the Psychiatry Service at West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center, revealed that, “within a given [...]

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