4.Anxiety is often a self fulfilling prophecy.If we think we will be anxious someplace and are afraid of it, it gives it more power and it is more likely to come. Anxiety needs us to be afraid of it. So if we are afraid it can take over. When we stop being afraid of...
During a panic attack or sudden anxiety episode, the fight-or-flight response is activated, which can lead to an intense cascade of uncomfortable symptoms, including shortness of breath and hyperventilation. Whether you have had a single panic attack or have been diagnosed with panic disorder, ex...
Measurement of anxiety is desirable for the benefit of drug development and understanding the brain function and mental well-being. Animal models offer the advantages of detailed neurobiological analysis, experimental manipulation of specific components in the brain circuits that underlie psychopathology, and...
sociologists, therapists, sex educators, and young adults, I heard many other theories about what I have come to think of as the sex recession. I was told it might be a consequence of the hookup culture, of crushing economic pressures, of surging anxiety rates, of psychological frailty, of...
I think there's many reasons. But I think one reason is that we have to change our understanding of what depression and anxiety actually are. There are very real biological contributions to depression and anxiety. But...
Polluted air and steadily rising temperatures are linked to health effects ranging from increased heart attacks and strokes to the spread of infectious diseases and psychological trauma.
“All (airport personnel) can really do is stamp a document and give the claimant their hearing date,” added Thomas. Thomas said that CBSA personnel lack the resources of police and intelligence agencies, adding that it can take even the most well-resourced agencies upwards of a year to pro...
volitional factors with smaller effects differentiate enactors and ideators, including impulsivity, substance use, depression, anxiety, or a behavioral disorder diagnoses (Mars et al. [73]; O’Connor et al. [85]). Yet, tests of several other factors (e.g., fearlessness of death, pain ...
Researchers produced evidence to support what most of us already knew--that a cup of tea is the answer to any crisis.Dr. Malcolm Cross, a psychologist at City University London, tested the anxiety levels of a group of people following a (41) situation and revealed that even a single cup...
It is "the worst named" disorder, says the chief executive of charity ADHD UK Henry Shelford, who suffers from the condition himself. "We don't have a deficit of attention. We have a control of attention issue." Some adults also suffer from anxiety and sleep problems as ...