Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms: When do you trust the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder?

Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009

In short...NEVER! The most common symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder include frequent worry, inability to relax, trouble falling asleep at night, or trouble staying asleep. And these are just the behavioral symptoms. There are also the nasty physical symptoms such as stomach aches, nausea, indigestion, muscle twitches, headaches, sweating, muscle ...

Controlling Panic Attacks

Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009

Many people experience panic attacks at some point in their life.  But some have better luck controlling panic attacks than others.  People that suffer from panic attacks range from someone that has maybe experienced it once, but doesn’t have such a large problem with them, to someone that has a ...

Overcoming Panic Attacks and the False Wizard

Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009

Overcoming panic attacks is a critical quest of each person who suffers from this debilitating disorder. The sudden rapid heartbeat, difficult breathing, nausea, feelings of dread, even chest pains that resemble heart attacks...who would go through these terrifying episodes if they could prevent it? But the person sensing a panic ...

Brainwave Meditation CD - Brainwave Evolution

Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009

Meditation is good for our body and soul. Though nobody know exactly when meditation started, researchers speculate that primitive hunter-gatherer societies may have discovered meditation and its altered states of consciousness while staring at the flames of their fires. Over thousands of years, meditation evolved into a structured practice. Indian ...

Yoga For Anxiety: Why more and more doctors are prescribing yoga for anxiety

Posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009

I had suffered for years with panic and anxiety (and its related symptoms: depersonalization, dizziness, panic) before I finally got the nerve (so to speak) to confront my family physician about it. I went into his office expecting him to write me a prescription (which he did) and that would ...

Alcohol Addiction

Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009

To find out if their patient has problem drinking, or even alcoholism, physicians often use the CAGE screening questions to help determine if they have a problem which should be addressed. The first question is based on the letter "C" and asks if a person has ever thought about Cutting ...

What can I do to protect my children from developing an eating disorder?

Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009

It is important to start by emphasising that there are many factors involved in the development of eating disorders. When a child develops an eating disorder, it is not because their parents have ‘done something wrong’.  Experts believe some people may have a genetic predisposition which places them at an ...

Commitment Phobia: The root cause of your fear of commitment

Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Commitment Phobia has often been described as a fear of decision, a fear of putting all your eggs in one basket. It is a fear that you may make the wrong decision and have to spend a great deal of time in regret of this decision. Subconsciously, I believe that ...

Shyness is not a disease

Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009

This is something i have long argued about, i have a wealth of experience in treating shy and socially phobic people from severe to moderate to not very shy at all. Also at www.happy-minds.co.uk we treat depression and anxiety with great success. We treat it with words and we treat ...

The Fraud of Psychiatry

Posted on Monday, November 9, 2009

If you were wondering whether or not the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is based on objective science then consider this: In the 1950's the DSM listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In fact, its authors labeled many behaviors that most of society, at the time, deemed ...