http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:00:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Anxiety disorders are the most common of emotional disorders, annually affecting more than 20 million Americans. Anxiety which interferes with normal activities like going outside or interacting with other people. Anxiety attacks are the most extreme example of an anxiety reaction. Anxiety disorders fill people's lives with overwhelming anxiety and ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/articles/anxiety-and-anxiety-attacks/ Many people have funny notions about what causes anxiety attacks. There are all kinds of myths and misinformation. Anxiety attacks are hard to deal with as it is without having people look at you strangely, like you are afflicted with some sort of communicable disease. Worse yet some people banter ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/articles/have-you-discovered-the-cause-of-your-anxiety/ Although anxiety is accepted as being a normal and healthy emotion, some people suffer from intense anxiety, which ends up affecting their lives and causing them to keep away from certain situations that they used to be able to deal without difficulty. If you are suffering from anxiety then you ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/articles/finding-the-effective-treatment-for-your-anxiety-disorder/ Many anxiety sufferers turn to medication in an attempt to control stress and alleviate anxiety and panic attacks, but unfortunately, anxiety medications are not always a panacea to restore emotional balance and calm. In fact, anxiety medications do not "cure" anxiety at all -- they merely attempt to lessen the ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/articles/when-anxiety-medications-fail/ People with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) go through the day filled with exaggerated worry and tension, even though there is little or nothing to provoke it. They anticipate disaster and are overly concerned about health issues, money, family problems, or difficulties at work. People with GAD cannot get rid of their ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/articles/anxiety-counseling-and-treatment-from-huntley-cary-and-rolling-meadows/ Fear, anxiety are controllable. Panic, worry, fright can be rid of. Knowing what are, how work, fear, anxiety, helps solve problems, control fear and anxiety. Anxiety and fear causes crisis. One must understand fear and anxiety, how fear and anxiety work, to control anxiety, manage fear. Can be overcome anxiety and ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/articles/how-to-manage-anxiety-control-fear-overcome-fright-panic-worry/ Estimates of the numbers of people suffering from major depressive episodes and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) vary significantly. Between 10% and 25% of women and between 5% and 12% of men will suffer a major depressive episode. Fewer people, between 5% and 9% of women and between 2% and 3% ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/uncategorized/major-depressive-episode-treatment/ In diagnosing the symptoms, the Psychiatrist or Psychologist must take the following into account: * These symptoms must cause clinically important distress, or impair work, social or personal functioning, and they should not fulfil the criteria for Mixed Episode. * The symptoms are not ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/mental-disorders/major-depressive-episode-diagnostic-caveats/ In order to be diagnosed as suffering from a major depressive episode, the patient must meet the following criteria: Over a two week period, the patient has consistently experienced five or more of the following symptoms, and these behaviours must be outside the parameters of the patient's normal behaviour. Either depressed ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/mental-disorders/major-depressive-episode-2/ Major depressive episode is a key symptom of major depressive disorder. It is characterized by severe, highly persistent depression, which is often manifested by lack of appetite, chronic fatigue, lethargy, and sleep disturbances (somnipathy). The victim may think about suicide, and in fact an increased risk of actual suicide is ... http://www.psychotherapy.ro/resources/mental-disorders/major-depressive-episode/