Articles in Anxiety Disorder

With the arrival of fresh technologies, life has become a lot easier for people of this generation. A number of daily tasks now can be performed just by clicking a button or switching on a device. While these technologies has made life easier for us, the number of people suffering from stress and anxiety disorders globally in this decade is more than ever before. In this article we’ll discuss about one of the most effective remedies of anxiety, acupuncture. Anxiety attacks can be of various intensities and can occur in different situations. A person may experience mild anxiety before arriving on stage for delivering a speech or before an exam. Anxiety is also associated with PTSD or post traumatic stress disorders and conditions like panic attacks and nervous stomach. Acupuncture works  [...]

The term ‘hallucination’ is said to be derived from Latin and is said to mean ‘wandering mentally’.  Hallucinations have been known to be defined as the ‘perception of seeing or experiencing something that isn’t existent in reality’.  Or another popular understanding of it would be ‘sensory experiences which are generally not caused by any sort of stimulation or the sensory organs that are relevant. In simple terms, it would mean that hallucinations occur when a person sees, hears, feels or smells something that isn’t real. The most common of these are the auditory hallucinations, wherein people hear sounds that do not seem to have any viable physical source. Hallucinations most often get associated with other mental illnesses like schizophrenia. Those suffering from  [...]

For most women, pregnancy can be one of the best times of their life. It is that phase of womanhood that lets you get in touch with your maternal instinct that you’ve always known was there. But you only get to see it, when the real deal is in place. There is an old adage that states ‘A mother is born the day her child is born’. According to a new study, however, with pregnancy is born an OCD patient. What is OCD? OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder that will cause unwanted thoughts that are generally placed in a recurrent fashion (almost like an obsession) which is characteristic of repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Repetitive behavior like excessively washing one’s hands, or checking and rechecking something a million times are generally signs of this  [...]

All of us have at least one friend who is obsessively worried about his/her finances; or there is the other one who frets over her over-increasing waistline (which isn’t really increasing in size according to the rest of us); or the one who is worried that his family issues are never going to be sorted out. If you nodded in agreement to any of the above, you’re not alone. While it may be normal to worry about the mundanities, it could be unhealthy if it happens 24x7. If a person is constantly worried, chances are that he/she suffers from Generalized Anxiety disorder (GAD). What is GAD? Generalized Anxiety Disorder involves irrational worry, which is excessive and unrelenting. With worry levels being extremely high, there is no scope for relaxation; neither are there chances of leading  [...]

There are many social settings that may create a certain degree of anxiety or nervousness in a person. In some cases these feelings are completely normal and do not necessarily indicate that the occurrence of social anxiety disorder is a problem to consider. This condition is among the most common of all mental disorders. Often everyday activities such as eating out or even writing a check in a public place create feelings of intense fear and self consciousness. These feelings alone make it nearly impossible to have a social life and in extreme cases can cause serious disruptions to a person’s life. The good news is that there are effective treatments for this serious mental disorder that often help a person to return to a somewhat normal life. These treatments often include medication,  [...]

Depression and anxiety are serious mental issues that plague many people not only in America but in the world. The problem with so many people being affected with these conditions is the fact that many times it goes undiagnosed. This in turn causes the condition to also go untreated. Being undiagnosed and untreated can lead to serious issues over an extended period of time because the condition does not improve of its own accord and most often becomes worse over time. One reason that depression is so under diagnosed is that many individuals affected by it do not realize what they are experiencing. One way to avoid this is by educating yourself and knowing the symptoms of depression and anxiety. Some of the most common symptoms of depression include the loss of interest in activities that  [...]

Stress and anxiety can affect a person’s life in many different ways and how each person is affected by these issues can vary depending on several factors. Some of these factors include how well a person copes with these issues, how severely the person is affected and of course what particular types of stress management skills the individual employs. For many people stress can lead to serious issues with anxiety and many other problems as well. This is particularly true if the person does not know how to manage this stress or cope with the problems that such stress may create. Knowing how to control stress levels and how they can affect you is a huge step in controlling the negative impacts that these levels will have on your everyday life. There are many things that we are faced with  [...]

Many individuals are under the mistaken impression that the conditions of obsessive compulsive disorder also known as OCD and obsessive compulsive personality disorder also referred to as OCPD are the same thing however this is far from true. OCPD is defined as an individual who strives for too much success. In the cases of individuals who are affected by this disorder anything less than perfection is perceived as failure and therefore is unacceptable. For these individuals the occurrence of what they see as a failure is devastating. Many people who do not understand the complexities of this condition see obsessive compulsive personality disorder as a good thing because of the intense need for achieving success. What these people fail to realize is that not achieving these high levels  [...]

Obsessive compulsive disorder which is also known as OCD is an anxiety disorder that causes an individual to have thoughts and fears also known as obsessions that are not rational. These obsessions often cause a person to repeat certain behaviors. These behaviors are commonly called compulsions. When a person is affected by this condition they often are aware that their obsessions are illogical and they may even try to control these obsessions however this action only causes higher levels of anxiety and eventually a person feels as if they must carry out these compulsive actions in order to relieve their distress. A classic example of an individual who is affected by this type of anxiety disorder is someone who has an irrational fear of germs causing them to wash their hands constantly. Some  [...]

Anxiety disorder is a comprehensive term under its heading; it is covering several of the different forms of disorders which has common factor of symptoms where the individual experiences abnormal as well as pathological fear and great anxiety. To explain in lay man’s language Anxiety disorders are rather not just one disorder but its group of disorders, which have common symptoms such as individual is having unrelenting feelings of high anxiety, and experiences extreme level of discomfort and under goes tension which is much beyond, that is experienced by a normal man. Anxiety disorder is part of psychiatric conditions, which is caused because of several reasons, which interferes in daily living of individual, whereas he is ability to carry out his day to day activities, maintaining  [...]