Archive for February, 2006
Listed by most recent articles first.
- Web 2.0: Consistency, Relevancy and Reliability
Implications for Health and Mental Health Information Online
I've seen this question from varying folks over the past year or so as the next obvious evolution in the "tagging" craze -- "Why don't we just ...
- Keep Stress at Bay: Striking a Balance
There is no shortage of causes of stress in today's busy lifestyle. The percentage of employees reporting work-related burnout grew from 39 percent to 53 percent between 1995 and 1998, according to an Aon Consulting ...
- Moving Beyond the Loss of an Ability
If we let our abilities define who we are, it makes sense that we might think less of ourselves when they are gone. However, we can move past any losses we encounter by using our ...
- Building Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself as a person. Those with high self-esteem believe that they are adequate, strong and worthy of a good life, while those with low self-esteem feel inadequate and worthless. ...
- Accepting the Body You Have
By the third week of January, many New Year’s diets have been broken, and it’s time for some sound advice on achieving a quality lifestyle instead. Ninety-five percent of all women don’t have the ideal ...
- Stress and Personality
Individuals differ dramatically in their response to a problem or a stressor. Some people are born with a temperament that predisposes them to higher or lower levels of tolerance to stress.
Your cognitive reaction to a ...
- Stress and Drinking
Studies indicate that many people drink as a means of coping with modern life and its accompanying economic stress, job stress and marital discord. Today's fast-paced society offers little in the way of social support. ...
- The Impact of Stress
Stress often is accompanied by an array of physical reactions. These symptoms can be characteristic of other physical or mental disorders. A health care professional can rule out other causes after you have undergone a ...
- Tips for Better Managing Your Stress
Completely banishing stress from your life may never be an attainable goal. Nor, some would argue, should it be. If you consistently try your hardest and seek new endeavors, you will naturally feel challenged and ...
- 20 Tips to Tame Your Stress
Stress hits us all in life, and while a little stress is good -- it keeps us focused and motivated ...
- Treatment for Anorexia
Treatment of anorexia, as with all eating disorders, can be challenging. Effective treatment addresses the underlying emotional and mental health issues, issues that ...
- Tips for Friends and Family of Someone with an Eating Disorder
Accept that there are no quick easy solutions for recovery from an eating disorder. Therapists, physicians and other experts have no magic cure. If your loved one is to get lasting recovery, she needs to ...
- Treatment for Bulimia
Treatment of bulimia, as with all eating disorders, can be challenging. Effective treatment addresses the underlying emotional and mental health issues -- issues ...
- What Is Binge Eating Disorder?
People with binge eating disorder feel both emotionally and physically out of control of their eating. Consequently, remorse and emotional anguish are common. Unlike the patient with bulimia, the binge eater does not compensate after ...
- Complications of Binge Eating
The problems associated with binge eating are related to obesity. Since people consume so many calories in a short period of time, and generally do not burn them off, they tend to put on a ...
- Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder
Binge-eating is similar to bulimia in that it involves a person binging on food, or overeating. Unlike bulimia, however, there is ...
- Questions to Ask Your Therapist
Choosing the right therapist is important and often difficult to do simply by looking at ads in the Yellow Pages. Credentials can be important, but are not the whole story. Word of mouth is the ...
- Real Men Don’t Get Help
The stigma still exists: "Real men" don't whine about their physical, mental or emotional problems. They work it out, suck it up or walk it off. Although more men are seeking professional help to overcome ...
- Characteristics of Effective Counseling
Effective counseling is a two way street. It takes a cooperative effort by both the person receiving counseling and the counselor. And it takes a commitment to make sometimes difficult changes in behavior or thinking ...
- Coping With Denial in Eating Disorders
What if the person you care about refuses to admit there is a problem? This is often the case with teenagers in general, and with anorexia nervosa at any age. Whether you merely suspect there ...
- Understanding the Fear of Flying
Traveling by plane is one of the fastest and easiest modes of transportation, enabling people to visit family and friends across the globe in a short amount of time. While most people enjoy the convenience ...
- Other Causes of Panic Symptoms
There are several possible reasons why a person could experience the same physical symptoms as a panic attack, such as chest pain and abdominal distress. That is why it is important to have a primary ...
- Frequently Asked Questions about Panic Disorder
How common is panic disorder?
Between three and six million American adults will have panic disorder at some time in their lives. Panic disorder usually begins in young adulthood, but can also begin earlier or later ...
- Explaining Panic Disorder to Your Friends
The phone rings early in the morning and you hear the voice of your friend on the other end. "Oh my gosh," you think, "Dinner!" Your friend asks where you were last night. She waited ...
- What Can I Do About Panic Disorder?
There are two major classes of medications that are equally effective in blocking panic attacks. These are antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage of the antidepressants is that they will treat ...
