Archive for the ‘Disorders’ Category

  1. How To Spot a Commitment Phobic

    Author: admin | Date: 01 Mar 2008, 9:04 am | Category: Disorders

    Due to negative experiences and beliefs (or sometimes a personality disorder), both sexes can suffer from commitment phobia, but more and more men seem to be suffering from this problem (or challenge).
    Let’s look at some typical behaviours commitment phobic men display in relationships.
    Commitment phobic men are tortured souls full of FEAR. [...]

  2. Public Speaking Phobia

    Author: admin | Date: 01 Mar 2008, 8:57 am | Category: Disorders

    There was this one time at band camp when I had to give this speech, but I wet my pants just before I stepped on stage. Uh, not really. The band camp thing is from “American Pie,” which I’m sure you remember. And although I’ve never been to band camp, I still have a few [...]

  3. Fear of Spiders

    Author: admin | Date: 01 Mar 2008, 8:52 am | Category: Disorders

    Arachnophobia is the scientific name for the fear of spiders. It is the most common example of an animal-based phobia and many people experience it mildly. For some people it has very intense effects. Different people suffer to different degrees and to those who do not suffer them phobias seem irrational, the afflicted person reacts [...]

  4. 10 Best Ways To Relieve Stress

    Author: admin | Date: 26 Feb 2008, 10:41 pm | Category: Disorders, Featured

    Finding ways to relieve stress are great ways to relieve anxiety. By relieving anxiety, one is able to head off anxiety attack symptoms and cure anxiety itself. Stress is the number one cause of anxiety attacks and by handling stress, one learns how to deal with panic attacks and find other anxiety solutions. Stress relieving [...]

  5. Top 10 Bizarre Phobias

    Author: admin | Date: 26 Feb 2008, 3:59 pm | Category: Disorders, Featured

    From Wikipedia: “A phobia is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one’s control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the [...]

  6. Phobias

    Author: admin | Date: 26 Feb 2008, 3:42 pm | Category: Disorders

    A phobia is an intense fear reaction to a particular thing or a situation. With a phobia, the fear is out of proportion to the potential danger. But to the person with the phobia, the danger feels real because the fear is so very strong.
    Phobias cause people to worry about, dread, feel upset by, and [...]

  7. What to do about a phobia?

    Author: admin | Date: 26 Feb 2008, 3:28 pm | Category: Disorders

    A phobia is an irrational fear that is driven by our emotions, which is why will-power, facts and reassurance tend to have little impact. Of course, this doesn?t stop us trying to intellectually ?understand it? so we examine the past and try to remember or figure out how the phobia developed in the belief that [...]

  8. What is a phobia?

    Author: admin | Date: 26 Feb 2008, 3:26 pm | Category: Disorders

    A phobia is a mainly irrational fear of something. It is not an illness. It is not a mental disorder. Nor is it a lack of will-power, or ‘moral fibre’, or determination.
    A phobia can make one’s life miserable, cause embarrassment, and undermine self confidence and self esteem.
    However you do not have to ‘learn to [...]

  9. Causes of Depression

    Author: admin | Date: 31 Jan 2008, 6:47 pm | Category: Disorders, Featured

    Causes of depression include loss, unexpressed anger & disturbed brain chemicals. Different causes require different treatments for depression.
    Though the exact cause of depression hasn’t been determined, we do know that women experience it twice as often as men. Symptoms of depression vary from person to person - but there are common indicators of depressed feelings. [...]

  10. Treating People With Schizophrenia

    Author: admin | Date: 18 Jan 2008, 5:29 pm | Category: Disorders

    Psychological disorders don’t have to ruin lives or relationships. Antipsychotic mediation, psychosocial therapy and even surgery can treat people with schizoprenia.Treating people with schizophrenia involves reducing the chances of relapse and decreasing the symptoms of schizophrenia. Treatments for schizophrenia are improving and research is forging ahead, but many people with schizophrenia still suffer from regular [...]

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