Disorders | Psychology Articles - Part 3

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Review: Mind Habits - reduce stress levels and boost your confidence and self-esteem
In these days of interactive games, brain training, and other make ‘yourself better’ programs Mind Habits brings something to the table that is supported by research and looks at stress, self-esteem and confidence in a fun and practical way. Worrying about your next date or the big presentation to your boss? Feeling low? Instead of running [...]
How can the web help educators?
Thanks to Heather Johnson for this excellent guest post on how to bring IT into the classroom. Web 2.0 has created many opportunities in all different kinds of fields since its inception within the past decade. The educational field has not been dismissed from the phenomena as there are many creative ways that educators can [...]
The Emerging Mind
Over on the BBC website there are a collection of annual lectures called the Reith Lectures. Each year specialists in their field give lectures on their area. Back in 2003 the lectures were called ‘The Emerging Mind‘ and were lead by the noted neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (who I’ve talked about here a few times in relation to his work [...]

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Symptoms of the Psychological Disorder Schizophrenia
Author: admin | Date: 18 Jan 2008, 5:25 pm | Category: Disorders
What is schizophrenia? It’s a poorly understood, complex psychological disorder characterized by psychotic episodes. Nobody knows for sure who gets schizophrenia or why.Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder or mental illness that involves severely disturbed moods, thoughts, and behaviors. Researchers aren’t certain exactly what causes schizophrenia. Many people with schizophrenis have lost touch with reality and [...]

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Revolutionary Treatment of Depression
Author: admin | Date: 06 Jan 2008, 5:53 pm | Category: Disorders, Social Psychology
It seems incredible that a successful form of psychological therapy could be based on telling people their thoughts are mistaken. And yet that is partly how cognitive therapy works.
“The founding father of cognitive therapy is Aaron T. Beck a psychologist not well known to the lay public, but widely revered amongst psychologists.”
This type of therapy [...]

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Is Depression Contagious?
Author: admin | Date: 04 Dec 2007, 4:18 pm | Category: Disorders
Like the flu, depression is a highly contagious disorder that can be transmitted socially. It is especially apt to take up residence in a household, jumping from one family member to others. And just as individuals can be depressed, so can whole families, often without their awareness.

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Bipolar Disorder: A Mistaken Diagnosis
Author: admin | Date: 04 Dec 2007, 4:11 pm | Category: Disorders
One of biggest difficulties concerning bipolar disorder is the thorny issue of mistaken identity. It’s a wonder that it even gets treated. A lot of people only notice the low mood swings, never mind those unbelievable highs that seem to send them to the moon. Bipolar disorder affects some 2 to 5 percent of Americans, [...]

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Searching for Sleep and an Insomnia Cure
Author: admin | Date: 01 Dec 2007, 1:35 pm | Category: Disorders
Although there are many different sleep problems, insomnia is by far the most common. Insomnia is characterised by problems in falling asleep, waking during the night or early in the morning. Most of us will at some time during our lives suffer from insomnia to some degree. Most insomnia will cure itself, however sometimes it [...]

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Post Natal Depression
Author: admin | Date: 21 Nov 2007, 8:07 pm | Category: Disorders
Sarah put her hands over her ears to try to block out the cries of her five month old daughter, alone in the house she felt overwhelmed by emotion and unable to move. Since Rosie’s birth she had experienced increasing anxiety, felt that she was a useless Mum and had suicidal thoughts. Luckily for both [...]

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How hypnosis works
Author: admin | Date: 21 Nov 2007, 8:01 pm | Category: Disorders
There is so much misinformation out there about hypnosis, we decided that we would set the record straight about exactly what hypnosis is and how it works. You see, many people still think that hypnosis is about putting someone into a weird state, telling them to do something, and then that thing will happen. But [...]

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Panic Attack and Anxiety Cure
Author: admin | Date: 21 Nov 2007, 7:45 pm | Category: Disorders
Although an ‘anxiety cure’ is not possible or desirable, new, more appropriate patterns and associations can replace unhelpful ones, leading to an effective cure for panic attacks..

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How panic attacks spread
Author: admin | Date: 21 Nov 2007, 7:43 pm | Category: Disorders, Psychology
For survival purposes, once we have ‘learned’ that a certain situation is dangerous by panicking, the mind ‘remembers’ this fact to ensure that the next time it sees a similar situation, it can give you the necessary anxiety or panic to enable you to run or fight, just like the woman in the story.
This is [...]

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Panic Attacks and Anxiety
Author: admin | Date: 21 Nov 2007, 7:42 pm | Category: Disorders
There is much written about anxiety and panic attacks. Why? - because they are an essential part of being human. Panic attacks and anxiety are abilities that have kept us safe for millions of years, allowed us to survive, evolve and succeed as a species.

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