Telling Your Family About A Mental Health Issue
Due to the many stigma attached to mental health issues, it can sometimes be hugely difficult for a sufferer to confide in individuals about their condition. They may feel that their confession will be laughed off as being all in the mind, or that it will change the way people look at them. In many cases the fear will be disproportionate to reality – but then, this is how mental health issues affect people. There is a traditional opinion that mental health issues are somehow less serious than physical conditions. Because a physical condition is usually something that can be seen, ...
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Anxiety is at the crux of a great deal of mental illnesses. The pain of a mental illness is that it comes from within you and attacks you with weapons you have unknowingly given it. Due to this, anxiety is a very powerful influence on mental illness – because no-one knows what you are afraid of better than you do, your brain will in its disordered state confront you with the things that scare you and make you anxious. As a consequence you will find it all the harder to beat the problem because part of you is causing it. Generalized ...
The Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
It may seem like a bit of a mouthful, but Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (known as CBT) is one of the foremost treatments for anxiety and panic disorders – and also one of the most effective. Many patients find a combination of CBT and traditional psychiatrist help and assessment is just what they need to combat their anxiety problems. CBT is based on retraining the way they brain thinks. When someone suffers from an anxiety problem, it is because their mind is making a subconscious decision or overreaction to a particular stimulus. CBT is designed to find the root cause of the ...
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What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Anxiety is at the crux of a great deal of mental illnesses. The pain of a mental...
Mental Health In Your Child: Look, Listen and Learn
There is a difficulty that presents itself to all parents when their child reaches...
The Myth of Mental Illness
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Telling Your Family About A Mental Health Issue
Due to the many stigma attached to mental health issues, it can sometimes be hugely...
Can Herbal Medicine Cure Anxiety Problems?
In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the world went mad for Prozac. Everyone, seemingly,...
Is “Mental” Health Really Just In The Mind?
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Exposure Therapy: The End To All Anxiety?
Exposure therapy is nothing revolutionary, but it is now being recognized as an effective method of conquering people’s fears and anxieties. It is now regularly included in a program of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which itself is one of the most useful ways of treating a phobia or anxiety program There is no doubt that exposure therapy is unpleasant.... [Read more of this article]
The Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
It may seem like a bit of a mouthful, but Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (known as CBT) is one of the foremost treatments for anxiety and panic disorders – and also one of the most effective. Many patients find a combination of CBT and traditional psychiatrist help and assessment is just what they need to combat their anxiety problems. CBT is based... [Read more of this article]
Anxiety Disorders & Medications
We live in a fix-all society, where we are all programmed to think that problems can be fixed quickly and easily. This “have it all, now” mentally extends throughout our lives, and even into our health. It is therefore understandable that, for most people, going to see a doctor and getting medication is the obvious answer to any malady. This is... [Read more of this article]
When Anxiety Strikes
Panic attacks can be the bane of your existence, and can make being out and about in the world extremely daunting. Never knowing when – or why – an attack can hit makes life unpredictable, and searching for a way to control your anxiety is a natural step to take. Most anxiety attacks come on suddenly – however, there are usually warning signs... [Read more of this article]
Conquering Fear – How To Fight Your Phobia
The guide below is a brief, start up guide for those wishing to conquer their phobia (or phobias) once and for all. For ease of use, the fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia) is used as an example – though the steps are applicable to any fear. 1. Expose yourself to the fear. If you have a phobia, you probably go out of your way to avoid the thing... [Read more of this article]
Terrors and Frights: Common (And Not So Common) Phobias
A phobia is an extreme, fearful reaction to an object, animal, insect, feeling or circumstance – they are wide and varied, and often have no rational explanation. The vast majority of the populace have at least one phobia, and many people go as far as to seek help for conquering their phobia from medical professionals. So what are we all so afraid... [Read more of this article]
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