By Christine S on July 7, 2010
Throughout history people have suffered with mental illnesses and many were left untreated because there were no treatments. There are hundreds of famous and infamous people who suffered some form of mental illness, most without treatments which led to their deaths. Vincent van Gogh suffered from Bi Polar disorder and since there were no medications [...]
Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health | Tagged animal therapy, Anxiety, anxiety disorders, control stress, group family, health issues, mental disorders, mental health issues, mental illnesses, mild symptoms, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, self help groups, stress anxiety, symptoms, treatment
By Lori on May 17, 2010
Bipolar disorder is considered to be a mental illness that comes with serious depression and mania. Also such a disease is known as manic depression. People with bipolar disorder suffer from wide temper tantrum with periods of normal mood in between. If you come across a person who has maniac episodes, he can experience an [...]
Posted in Bipolar disorder | Tagged bipolar, correct diagnosis, Depression, disease, disorder, early adulthood, energy, flight of ideas, illness, manic depressive illness, persistent sadness, person, provocative behavior, temper tantrum
By Bob Dylan on May 9, 2010
For those dealing with Adult ADD, the very symptoms of attention deficit disorder can cause mild to extreme anxiety. Performance anxiety, social phobias and generalized feelings of anxiousness may come bursting through at the most inopportune and important times! To understand where anxiety stems from, it is necessary to look at the symptoms of Adult [...]
Posted in ADD, Anxiety, Mental Health | Tagged adults with attention deficit disorder, Anxiety, anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder, extreme anxiety, lack of concentration, social phobias, symptoms, symptoms of attention deficit disorder
By Lori on January 27, 2010
For people who are trying to recover from an addiction it should be understood at the outset that there is a lot of time and patience involved in recovery, especially in the beginning. It can be a very difficult road and it takes a strong commitment in order for the recovery to be successful. The [...]
Posted in Mental Health
By Lori on January 20, 2010
Many times people have suicidal thoughts especially in these current times of financial disasters and other economic worries. Money woes are not the only reasons for suicidal thoughts. When a relationship breaks up or the death of a close loved one happens, there are a lot of people who just cannot handle it. They would [...]
Posted in Depression, Mental Health | Tagged Depression, Everything, happiness, suicidal person, suicidal thoughts
By Lori on January 18, 2010
Dementia is a disorder that affects different parts of the brain through the loss of memory, attention problems, and language issues. It is characterized by the progressive deterioration in cognitive and thought functions. While it typically strikes older people, it can also affect younger adults as well. The symptoms are individual to the person who [...]
Posted in Mental Health | Tagged Anxiety, different parts of the brain, loss of memory, memory loss, moodiness, progressive deterioration, short term memory, symptoms, symptoms of dementia
By Lori on January 17, 2010
While there has been many strides made in the battle against Alzheimer’s Disease, there is still a long way to go in preventing or curing this debilitating disease. Most Alzheimer’s symptoms become so severe that full time care is required for the patients. The statistics for this disease are also somewhat staggering. Nearly 4.5 million [...]
Posted in Mental Health | Tagged exercise, health, mind and body, symptoms
By Lori on December 25, 2009
According to main medical and psychological dictionaries, schizophrenia is said to be a psychiatric diagnosis describing a neuropsychiatric or mental disorder. Schizophrenia could be recognized by the presence of certain abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. In general, a person suffering from schizophrenia expresses paranoid and bizarre delusions, disorganized speech and thinking with [...]
Posted in Mental Health | Tagged diagnosis, dysphoria, expression, illness, initial stage, person, psychiatric diagnosis, schizophrenia, social withdrawal, speech, type, types of schizophrenia, undifferentiated type, word salad
By Lori on December 21, 2009
The famous Hollywood actress Eva Mendes, who is also known for her animal rights protection activities, asks people to refrain from buying fur while shopping for the holidays. The actress says that even in case you purchase a fur glove with the little ornament, it means that the animal was killed for this glove to [...]
Posted in Eating Disorder | Tagged actress, animal, Anorexia, antidepressant drugs, anxiety symptoms, body, case, condition, ethical treatment of animals, Eva Mendes, extreme weight loss, fact, fur, glove, hollywood, hollywood actress, horrible scenes, Hugo, irregular heartbeat, loss, menstrual periods, mind, overweight, people for the ethical treatment of animals, periods women, PETA, respiratory embarrassment, Than Wear, treatment of animals, video, wear fur, weight
By Bob Dylan on December 3, 2009
To be afraid from time to time is inevitable. Whether it is caused by the near miss of an almost car accident or a very sick friend in the hospital, everyone will occasionally feel fear. But when fear is felt almost continuously or seemingly for no valid reason at all, it constitutes a disorder. This [...]
Posted in Anxiety, Panic Attacks | Tagged exercise, immune system, panic attack, panic attacks
