The Sky Is Falling: Understanding and Coping With Phobias, Panic, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders This is a terrific book to start out with if you are dealing with anxiety attacks. It's the first book I read, mainly ...

A helpful and practical guide to working on issues of anxiety and phobias, for anyone who's ready to take their treatment to the next level. It provides step-by-step exercises, helping you learn about relaxation, exposure ...

Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick Panic is an insidious trick that makes you fear simple, everyday things: driving, shopping, socializing, traveling and more. The first attack comes out of nowhere, ...

Depression and related illnesses threaten to wreck the lives of many teens and their families. Suicide driven by these illnesses is one of the top killers of young people. How do teens become depressed? What ...

This is a documentary film about depression, available now on DVD. There is a tendency afoot today to blame the epidemic sweep of clinical depression in the US on bad genes or screwy brain chemistry. ...

A very informative book about depression and manic depression. A good overview of the disease and its effects on those of us who suffer with it. Some of it is a little on the technical ...

Defeating Depression: Real Help for You and Those Who Love You In Defeating Depression: Real Help for You and Those Who Love You, author Howard W. Stone, Ph.D., takes a multi-faceted (cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and interpersonal) ...

Depression is a crippling and often misunderstood disorder in today's society. While many people advocate a purely medical model of this problem (and label it a "disease," like cancer), others find it more helpful to ...

Upcoming books to be reviewed on Psych Central. Type the book's title into Amazon.com for additional information about that book. Living Victoriously with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Heather Crilly Suicide Junkie S. Westwood A Relentless Hope Gary E. Nelson The Migraine ...

"I hate that school! I hate that teacher!" Nick has come home from school in a fierce temper. He drops his backpack on the kitchen floor and kicks it across the ...

New research from around the world suggests that an individual's favorite music genre is closely linked to his or her personality. Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, has undertaken the largest study so ...

As someone who has been laid off twice in the last year, I fancy myself a bit of an authority on this situation. Now that I have been through this multiple times in such ...

Do people who have bipolar disorder have a harder time with accurate memory? Are they more likely to confuse their memories with fantasy or daydreaming as though it actually occurred? Everyone does some version of ...

Children who survive traumatic events are at a higher risk of allergy and asthma, recent research suggests. Researchers in Leipzig, Germany have found that such events directly affect the immune system. Dr. Gunda Herberth and colleagues ...

The following statement was provided to Alicia Sparks of Mental Health Notes by Senator Barack Obama's campaign in his bid for the U.S. Presidential election in 2008: Dear Friend, ...