Just as anxiety and the corresponding emergency response can range in degrees of severity, anxiety attacks can also range in degrees of severity. For instance, a moderate degree threat will produce a moderately high degree emergency reaction whereas an extreme threat will produce a very high degree...
Hallucinations in the context of extreme sleep deprivation One of the most comprehensive studies of how sleep deprivation affects mental health, including symptoms like hallucinations, involved 261,547 adults from 56 countries. People who were sleep-deprived were more than twice as likely to say they...
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Sleepwalking is dangerous because you can hit yourself, run into furniture, or run into other people. In extreme cases, people can leave their houses or even jump out of windows. It’s important to know that you can wake up a person who’s sleepwalking, but with caution. A person sleepwa...
Insomnia; difficulty sleeping or getting good sleep night after night Feelings of guilt and worthlessness Feeling helpless Feeling hopeless Feeling trapped with on options Moderate to extreme pessimism Feel physically and emotionally down and “blue” Irritable; everything seems annoying Loss of interest ...
Alcohol abuse, during times of withdrawal or extremeintoxication Types of Generalized Seizures There are six kinds of generalized seizures: Clonic seizures In a clonic seizure, your muscles have spasms, which often make your face, neck, and arm muscles jerk rhythmically, on one or both sides of...
Richard Winter, Psychotherapist and Emeritus Professor of Practical Theology and Counseling, Covenant Theological Seminary, answers the question, “Why do depressed people experience extreme mood swings?” 7. Memory and concentration problems Prolonged stress can impair cognitive functions, making it ...
Sleep Apnea Signal: You Fall Asleep Anytime, Anywhere If you can’t help but doze off in a dark movie theater or you consistently pass out on the couch watching TV, this could point to some extreme apnea-related exhaustion. “Since your sleep is being severely disturbed, most of these pe...
There is no set treatment for sleep paralysis, but doctors usually direct diagnosed patients to improve their sleep schedule and maintain a better bedtime routine. In more extreme cases, patients may be prescribed a low dose of antidepressants, according to theNational Health Society of the UK. ...
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental condition that causes major abnormalities in mood, thoughts, energy, and behavior—the kind of changes that cause noticeable impairments to your day-to-day life. We all have ups and downs, but people with bipolar disorder experience these in extreme states, ...