repeated and inescapable stress may cause the body’s stress-response system to remain in fight-flight-freeze mode for longer than expected, causing multiple physical and emotional distress symptoms. In some cases, significant and/or long-term exposure to the stress of...
If you use certain medications or illegal drugs or withdraw from certain drugs, you may experience some symptoms of anxiety disorder. Unspecified and other specified anxiety disorders With these conditions, your anxiety may not fit into any other category but is significant enough to cause stress an...
Biological:Researchers are studying how delusional disorders might happen when parts of the brain aren’t normal. Abnormalbrainregions that control perception and thinking may be linked to the delusional symptoms. Environmental/psychological:Evidence suggests thatstresscan trigger delusional disorder.Alcoholand...
Thyroid problems manifest with different symptoms depending on the underlying cause. Thyroid disorders are conditions that affect the thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped gland in the front of the neck. The thyroid has an important role in regulating numerous metabolic processes throughout the body. Dif...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Of all the anxiety disorder types above, generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorders are the most common among the populace in the U.S. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) This is a chronic anxiety disorder (must affect a person for a period of not ...
Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are both first line treatments for PTSD that have been studied extensively and shown to be effective treatments for reducing PTSD symptoms [8], also in patients with severe co-occurring disorders such as psychotic disor...
Mental disorders are any illnesses with significant psychological or behavioral manifestations that are associated with either a painful or distressing symptom or an impairment in one or more important areas of functioning.
Autoimmune disease, any of a group of conditions or disorders that result from malfunction of the immune system, in which immune components react against the body’s own normal cells. More than 80 autoimmune diseases are known, the majority of which cann
Eating disorders are serious conditions that can lead to long-term physical health effects – but recovery is possible witheating disorder treatment. In this post, we explain some of the signs and symptoms of eating disorders, possible causes and how to get help for yourself or a loved one. ...
-related headaches are in the manual's appendix, with the exception of headaches related topsychoticdisorders orsomatic symptom disorder(SSD), where a person experiences one or more disruptive physical symptoms (like headaches) and then have excessive thoughts or health concerns about those symptoms....