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....

Anxiety Disorders
Imagine someone is lying in a beautiful green meadow. Its a perfect day, the sun is shining and there is a gentle breeze wafting trough the trees all around them. Sounds of nature fill the air as they chat and laugh with their family and friends. They are surrounded by people that they love ....

Drugs and Abuse
Abuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topi....

Fragile X Syndrome
Fragile X Syndrome Fragile X syndrome is a sex-linked trait. It is caused by a break or weakness on the long arm of the X chromosome. It can be traced back to a mutation in a gene called the FMR1 gene. With Fragile X, the FMR1 gene is much bigger than normal where the CGG is repeated. The avera....

Gollum's personality in LOTR
Using "artistic license" and your own imaginations picture the scene: Sméagol is standing trial for his numerous crimes, including the murder of Déagol; the attempted murders of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee; conspiracy to commit murder (with Shelob); theft and attempted th....

Is There a Real Difference Between a Neurosis and a Psychosis
A major part of clinical psychology is the diagnoses and treatment of mental disorders. This can often be difficult and controversial due to the fact that many of the disorders can be confused with others; there aren’t always clear guidelines in which to follow. An example of this confusion ca....

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
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 ....

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....

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