According to a new Mayo Clinic study, children who avoid situations or objects that frighten them are more likely to develop anxiety issues in the future. Study author Stephen Whiteside, a pediatric psychologist with the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center, said, “We found that avoidance predicted future anxiety. Kids who tended to avoid at ‘time one’ also tended to have worse anxiety one year later.” The findings were published in the journal Behavior Therapy. Two short surveys developed... 

A recent study showed that some well-known sleeping medications can increase the risk of death even if they were taken only 18 times in a year. The risk of death is increased when sleeping pills were taken in large numbers. The researchers reviewed the survival rates of 10,500 volunteers who were taking sleeping pills for an average of 2 and half years during 2002 to 2007. The average age of the patients was 54 and all of them have some type of medical condition. The pills taken by the patients include... 

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 prescribed or natural to deal with it he committed suicide. There are so many names we all know of people who have suffered some form of mental illness... 

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 ADD and gain some perspective on just what adults with attention deficit disorder live with from day to day. The wonderful news is that there are treatments... 

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 is often called a panic attack. Panic attacks should not be ignored. They need to be examined seriously. A panic attack can be an unbearable, even incapacitating experience. Fear, whether warranted or... 

We all get that feeling in the pit of our stomach when we are about to do something new and challenging. Your heartbeat quickens and you may start to feel clammy, or sweaty. This happens because we have an innate ‘fight or flight’ reflex inherited from our ancestors. We get a sudden rush of adrenaline which prepares us for the dangers ahead. If you are prone to having panic attacks, then you will know that you get these feelings multiplied by a hundred. The walls start to close in and you can’t... 

Anxiety attacks can have too debilitating effects on people who suffer from them. In fact, it is a torture even to see someone get anxiety or panic attacks. This is a condition which emerges due to excessive thinking and botheration about something specific and can eventually transpire into anxiety attacks. The people who get panic attacks can get them at any point of time. They can suffer from sudden bouts of panic attacks mostly when they are outside the realms of their comfort zone. Often, they... 

Social Anxiety Disorder is when the very thought of having to interact with people disables you to have a stable personal and professional life. That’s when your problem of social anxiety disorder is already on the increasing order. However, you need to keep certain things about this disorder in mind. Social Anxiety Disorder is a disease – Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) has been classified as a disease. This implies that when people suffer from this disease, it is not that they are just shying... 

Anxiety is any normal emotion. But anything too much is not good for you. Whether you are going for an exam or you are meeting a very important person who can take you business to heights, there is a certain level of anxiety in such cases. Although it can be bit uncomfortable, it is our body’s tendency to prepare itself for a stressful situation. Our body’s nervous system which controls automatic functions of the body like heart beat, breathing, digestion etc can be affected when a person gets... 

Social anxiety disorder refers to a condition where an individual feels or experiences anxiety due to his expectation of negative reactions from others. Everyday social situations can cause extreme anxiety in these people. Most of these people find it difficult to interact with strangers and start finding excuses to avoid the situations where they might meet strangers. Such people may find it difficult to eat in the company of others and in worse conditions of social phobias they will find it difficult...