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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Signs, Symptoms and Alternative Techniques for Treating Arthritis

There are over 100 different types of arthritis, and it is common knowledge that it is a degenerative condition of the joints which causes considerable pain and reduced mobility – a vicious cycle, in fact, which ‘feeds itself’. Inflamed joints are painful to move, but movement helps bring increased circulation into the area, which is [...]

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is a form of anxiety disorder characterized by feeling of discomfort and fear, sometimes rising to the disabling level of full-blown panic attacks, precipitated by entering, or contemplating entering, large open spaces such as football fields or open plains, as well as large open spaces in buildings such as stadiums, airports and large malls.  [...]

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (sometimes known as GAD) is one of the major categories of anxiety disorder.  It is somewhat mysterious in that nearly all other anxiety disorders have some clearly defined or at least reasonable object or trigger.  That is to say, the victim experiencing anxiety is anxious about a particular incident, and can generally [...]

Six Faces of Fear: The Varieties of Anxiety Disorder

Anxiety disorders have little in common with the everyday emotions of worry or apprehension.  Even fear, considered as a rational response to genuinely fearsome circumstances or threats, is quite distinct from the savage disquiet of anxiety disorders.  Anxiety disorders, rather, are rooted in one of the most ancient and in some respects useful of instinctive [...]

Claustrophobia

Claustrophobia is the fear of being shut in in an enclosed, limiting space.  Psychologists typically class it as an anxiety disorder, and the symptoms, which may range from mild discomfort to the severity of a full panic attack, normally has a cognitive component in which the sufferer fears being crushed or abandoned or helpless and [...]

Explaining Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense anxiety and fear involving the sympathetic nervous system and marked by rapidly peaking physiological arousal.  They are associated with a wide range of accompanying physical and psychological symptoms ranging from chest pain and shortness of breath to trembling, vomiting and fainting, and much more.   Onsets are typically abrupt, [...]

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