Anxiety

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Agoraphobia • Wikipedia
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. As a result,… View
Anxiety Attacks - 10 Tips To Help You Cope • Dr. Kathy Nickerson
It can come from out of nowhere. One minute, you're shopping and looking for the perfect sweater to match your new pants. The next minute, you're breathing heavily, your heart… View
Anxiety Disorder Recovery: Discovering a Life Worth Living • Jennifer Lafferty O’Connor, PhD, Remuda Ranch
Anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness in both children and adults, affecting one in six individuals in America each year. Although these disorders vary distinctly in… View
Anxiety Disorders • The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
What are Anxiety Disorders? Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. It helps one deal with a tense situation in the office, study harder for an exam, keep focused on… View
Anxious and Depressed Teens and Adults: Same Version of Mood Gene, Different Brain Reactions • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
An NIMH study using brain imaging shows that some anxious and depressed adolescents react differently from adult patients when looking at frightful faces. This difference occurs even though the adolescent… View
Anxious and Healthy Adolescents Respond Differently to an Anxiety-provoking Situation • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Brain scans show heightened activity among anxious adolescents exposed to an anxiety-provoking situation when compared with normal controls, according to an NIMH study published in the November 2008 issue of… View
Anxious Youth Have Disturbed Brain Responses When Looking at Angry Faces • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
When looking at angry faces so quickly that they are hardly aware of seeing them, youth with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have unchecked activity in the brain’s fear center, say… View
Cells May Provide Target for New Anxiety Medications • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
A specific population of brain cells could provide a target for developing new medications aimed at helping people learn to mute the fears underlying anxiety disorders, according to NIMH-supported scientists.… View
Coping With Crisis • Wikipedia
The psychological definition of coping is the process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or… View
Don't Panic • Tina Tessina, Ph.D.
There is always something in the news or on TV to scare us. Hysterical articles in the media sell papers, and attract eyeballs to websites, but are usually exaggerating the… View
Emotion-Regulating Circuit Weakened in Borderline Personality Disorder • National Institute of Mental Health
Grey Matter Changes Linked to Runaway Fear Hub Differences in the working tissue of the brain, called grey matter, have been linked to impaired functioning of an emotion-regulating circuit in… View
How to Get Help for Anxiety Disorders • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
If you think you have an anxiety disorder, the first person you should see is your family doctor. A physician can determine whether the symptoms that alarm you are due… View
How to Heal the Emotional Scars of Scary Moments • Gloria Arenson, MFT
The first therapist I ever went to was a very kind and wise woman. One day, in a moment when I was feeling angry with myself and she was trying… View
Imposter Syndrome: If I am so great, why do I feel like such a fake? • California Institute of Technology Counseling Team
Introduction of the Imposter Syndrome The Imposter syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist even in face of information that indicates that the opposite… View
Makeover Your Mind - Tools to Help Manage Anxiety • Dr. Kathy Nickerson
Now that the New Year has begun, I bet you’ve noticed a trend on TV and in the media: it’s makeover season! It’s hard to check out at the supermarket… View
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
“I couldn’t do anything without rituals. They invaded every aspect of my life. Counting really bogged me down. I would wash my hair three times as opposed to once because… View
Panic Attacks • Wikipedia
Panic attacks are very sudden, discrete periods of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.[1]… View
Panic Disorder • The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder and is characterized by unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms that may include chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of… View
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder • Wikipedia
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [1][2] (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events that threatened or caused grave physical harm. It is a… View
Role of Research in Improving the Understanding and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIMH supports research into the causes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of anxiety disorders and other mental illnesses. Scientists are looking at what role genes play in the development of these… View