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• Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders
  Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies, and Other Good News Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in America, affecting one in every nine people. Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders brings us ...
• The Sky Is Falling
  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 ...
• The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook
  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
  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 Anxiety Among College Students
  Depression and anxiety are prevalent problems in colleges across the country. “There is no question that all of the national surveys we have at our fingertips show a distinct rise in the number of mental ...
• Radical Lifestyle Changes May Help Depression
  A top scientific adviser to the U.K. government is advising depressed people to forget drugs and take up lifestyle changes such as smiling and eating seaweed. Jane A. Plant is a professor of geochemistry at Imperial ...
• Realism and Optimism: Do You Need Both?
  Optimism usually is viewed as a desirable attribute, but many believe it is really only helpful if it is realistic. Dr. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association and legendary researcher in the ...
• Treatments for Anxiety
  Anxiety is a well-understood and readily treated condition. There are many different kinds of specific anxiety disorders, ranging from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) to panic attacks. The below treatment options cover general anxiety disorders and ...
• Depression Versus Anxiety
  Many people mistakenly believe that most depressed people have no energy. But that is not always the case, as some people with depression often experience one form or another of anxiety. Depression and anxiety ...
• If Your Child is Afraid of the Doctor
  A routine visit to a doctor or dentist raises anxieties in almost all children. While most take the necessary pokes and needle sticks in stride, or become upset only on occasion, a few toddlers and ...
• Tackling the Fears of the ‘Worried Well’
  It is estimated that millions of people in the U.S. suffer from imaginary illnesses, including a rise in recent years in food intolerances. Are we really a nation of hypochondriacs? The "worried well," it would ...
• Workers Risk Depression and Anxiety
  Researchers have found that work is not always conducive to good mental health. Dr. Maria Melchior of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK and colleagues suggest that reducing work stress levels could prevent the ...
• Social Phobia and Health
  There is much evidence that strong friendships and relationships can positively influence health. But if you tend to become anxious in social settings, you may not be gaining the potential benefits. Social phobia or anxiety ...
• Anxiety and Depression
  Surveys show that many people with major depression also have an anxiety disorder, while half of anxiety-disorder sufferers also have symptoms of clinical depression. Now there's evidence of genetic commonalities between the two conditions. It's an ...
• My Battle with Childhood Sexual Abuse
  My first memory of emotional abuse was when I was three years old. Mum left me with the next door neighbour who was the local flasher. He didn't think anything of showing himself to ...
• Overcoming Childhood Abuse and Neglect
  My mother left when I was 3. I bounced around without a home — lived with my grandparents, sometimes my father, sometimes aunts and uncles. I suffered horrendous abuse. Emotional, physical, sexual… sometimes I think ...
• Symptoms of Selective Mutism
  Selective mutism is a rare type of anxiety disorder whose main distinguishing characteristic is the persistent failure to speak in specific social situations (e.g., at school, or with playmates) where speaking is expected, despite ...
• Anxiety Disorders: The Role of Psychotherapy in Effective Treatment
  Everyone feels anxious and under stress from time to time. Situations such as meeting tight deadlines, important social obligations or driving in heavy traffic, often bring about anxious feelings. Such mild anxiety may help make ...
• How To Beat Negative Thinking
  Do you always remember criticisms and never compliments? Do you spend hours mulling over previous mistakes? You may be in the grip of negative thinking — but there is a way to escape the pattern. For ...
• Relaxation Helps Ease Fears and Phobias
  Dave is frightened of flying. In an airplane he gets nervous and thinks about the plane crashing. Amy avoids going to the dentist. She becomes apprehensive, fears the pain and is embarrassed by her nervousness. She ...
• An Overview of Anxiety and Depression
  When stress builds up, there is the potential for it to develop into longer-term problems. Anxiety and depression both are extremely widespread in the modern world, so an awareness of the common symptoms may help ...
• Tips to Cope with a Panic Attack
  A panic attack is a sudden rush of physical symptoms -- like shortness of breath, muscle spasms, and nausea -- coupled with uncontrollable anxiety and sometimes a sense of impending doom. Visits to the emergency ...
• If Your Child Has Problems, It May Due to Lack of Sleep
  If your child has frequent health or emotional problems, consider that a lack of sleep may be all or at least part of the problem. Every function in the body is affected by sleep. And ...
• The Power of Music To Reduce Stress
  The soothing power of music is well-established. It has a unique link to our emotions, so can be an extremely effective stress management tool. Listening to music can have a tremendously relaxing effect on our minds ...
• Medications and Car Accidents
  It is not clear why older adults have a higher rate of car accidents. Some speculate that vision loss or slowed reaction time plays a role. But a recent Canadian study suggests that a class ...