Adult ADHD and Comorbid Anxiety
ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This psychological disorder started out as a mere counterpart of ADD, which stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. ADHD is a well-recognized condition that is distinguished by inattention, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, or a combination. The c....

ANXIETY
Anxiety is one of the most common feelings of humankind. Individuals may experience some form of anxiety ranging from mild to panic and can be situational. What is anxiety you may ask? It is a feeling of uneasiness that activates the autonomic nervous system in response to a vague, nonspecific threa....

Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder was first recognized as a distinct condition in 1987 by the American Psychiatric Association, and 1997 by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV. It is listed in the DSM IV as a Somatoform disorder. Body dysmorphic disorder is an excessive preoccupatio....

Childrens book Reviews
Childrens Book Reviews Friends at School ISBN: 978-1-59572-040-5 Brief Summery: A delightful, heart-warming book featuring children of mixed abilities busily working and playing at school. This book illustrates the true meaning of the word inclusion. It shows that given the oppo....

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy, pioneered by Aaron Beck that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. CBT teaches that when our brains are healthy, it is our thinking that causes us to feel and act the way we do. Therefore, if we are ....

Hypochondriasis
The mood disorder commonly known as hypochondria is also called hypochondriasis or health anxiety. This disorder of the mind causes the sufferer to believe that real or imagined physical symptoms are the result of a serious disease. Often no amount of reassurance, even from medical professionals,....

Love Gone Wrong in Lolita
It all started with two people named Adam and Eve. Sex, that is, has been around since the beginning of time and has morphed into many different forms since then. There has always been the traditional sexual relationship between a man and a woman where respect, faithfulness and love come into play....

Moving Towards self acceptance
Moving Towards Self-Acceptance How an individual perceives her self physically can significantly influence how she perceives and responds to others, to her relationships, to her environment, and to her life objectives and potential. Self-image can positively or negatively affect an individual....

Obessive Cumplusive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder One in 50 adults in the United States currently has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and twice that many have experienced this disabling disorder at some point in their lives. OCD affects both males and females, but males start to show signs at an earlier ag....

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. But I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go.....

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, also known as OCD, is caused when a chemical imbalance in the brain causes the affected region of the brain to become overactive. The chemical affected in the brain is serotonin and communication between the frontal lobe, along with deeper parts of the brain are disru....

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD) INTRODUCTION When it comes to obsessive-compulsive disorder, there are common features that are associated with it. Those common features are: of sweating, accelerated rate of heartbeat, and restlessness. All show that a person is experiencing the symptoms of ....

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: St. John's Wort VS Zoloft
INTRODUCTION Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a frequent, chronic, costly, and disabling disorder that is present in several medical settings, but is under recognized and under treated. This anxiety disorder is characterized by recurrent obsessions and uncontrolled compulsions where the person exp....

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Today we toss psychiatric disorders at each other like we are throwing confetti on New Year's Eve. The phrase will be, I flew into "manic," or don't be obsessive, or how compulsive. We think we know what all the terms mean. However for some it is not so easy to be flip....

Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Introduction We all have traditions and a certain way we like to do things and those traditions become a part of our lives. If we skip or do not do them we feel as if something is missing. However, when the traditions become so ingrained that we must do them over and over again or we feel that s....

OCD
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD stands for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. But what does Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder mean? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is a type of anxiety disorder that causes someone to experience obsessive, unwanted thoughts, and to compulsively try to get rid of th....

OCD
OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Worries, doubts, superstitious beliefs all are common in everyday life. However, when they become so excessive and begin to take over your life, its a much bigger problem then. When in your everyday life you begin hearing the same lines as You walked on my f....

OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. People who have OCD are often or always troubled by ideas or images that stick in their mind. These thoughts, called obsessions, are sometimes bizarre. They feel anxious and force them to behave in ways that make no sense. They may ....

OCPD
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is a pervasive characterological disturbance involving one's generalized style and beliefs in the way one relates to themselves and the world. Persons with OCPD are typically deeply entrenched in their dysfunctional beliefs and genuinely see their way....

Paternity Leave For Men
Pregnancy is all about the woman -or so society seems to assume. A new mother automatically will recieve maternity leave from her work after birthing her child so that she has time to connect with her son or daughter and to recover from some of the raging hormones that toy with her body and mind. Ho....

PTSD post traumatic stress disorder
The Mental Scars of War (How does Post traumatic Stress Disorder affect returning Middle East soldiers, compared to the soldiers who returned home from the Vietnam war?) Post traumatic stress disorder, and the effects of PTSD are a big part of returning war veterans these days, presently fr....

Tourette's
Question: What makes it tic? Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by tics; involuntary, rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way. Although the word "involuntary" is used to describe the nature of the tics, this is not entirel....

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