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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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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
Despite all appearances to the contrary, the world is still somewhat old fashioned....
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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?
Imagine you are asked to describe what depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder...
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Getting anxious over Anxiety Depression?
A lot of people who are exerting too much of their brain power usually exhaust not only their physical strength when engaging in various multi-tasking activities, they also tend to over extend their brains up to the point when it plainly needs some good old time for relaxation. A lot of busy people who seem to cannot fathom the idea of relaxing and... [Read more of this article]
Happy as You Want to Be
Almost everyone have heard the hit single ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ by Bobby McFerrin. The song has a very catchy way of conveying its message of being happy to everyone. Bobby Mcferiin’s simple message surely made a lot of people by telling them not to worry. Living a happy, resilient and optimistic life is wonderful, and is also... [Read more of this article]
“Who’s the Boss?” 10 ways to start taking control (time management, goal setting, record tracking)
At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being overwhelmed. This negative outlook then makes it even harder for us to manage those challenges... [Read more of this article]
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... [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.... [Read more of this article]
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