Sometimes we have to take medication in order to get whole again. Though prescribing antidepressant medicine is a last resort treatment, it can be absolutely necessary in certain situations. For example, I had a friend who has had panic attacks for over 2 years. She has tried every treatment possible to decrease the attacks, but [...]

With an estimated 40 million Americans living with the impacts of anxiety disorders, the need for property treatment is evident. This mental illness can create symptoms that make getting through everyday life difficult at best. Fortunately, there are a host of anxiety medicine options that patients are often given to coincide with other forms of [...]

Anxiety is a part of life for everyone. But how is anxiety disorder different from normal anxiety? That’s the question I had. I had to learn three important facts about anxiety. First, it’s only a disorder if the attacks last a long time – well past any event that could have triggered anxiety. Second, a [...]

Sometimes children get fidgety, jittery and don’t want to be away from mom and dad. Some of that is normal, of course, and part of growing up. But excessive anxiety is not normal and needs to be addressed. Kids are unfortunately frequently diagnosed as having something else like hyperactivity or ADD. That’s because they have [...]

Anger is a useful emotion that has a time and place. But anger can also become a venting crutch to release anxiety about other issues. Have you ever had someone get angry with you, and your response was, “you’re really overreacting”? They might very well be overreacting but not to the situation at hand. The [...]

It’s so easy to feel guilty about everything when you have low self-esteem. A person with low self-esteem seems to believe they are responsible for everything and nothing he or she does is good enough. These guilty feelings include thinking you don’t spend enough time with the family or you should be making more money. [...]

Think about how many people in your life you've met that are always victims. They blame everything that happens to them on someone else. It's really annoying to be absolutely honest. It's a mindset that should be considered an anxiety disorder in its own right in my opinion. Victims blame their parents, schooling, circumstances, bad [...]

I started having trouble sleeping when I reached the age of 45. There was really no reason for it that I could pinpoint. I just started sleeping restlessly and for fewer hours. It made me really tired. It got to the point where I would have a hard time staying awake at my work computer [...]

Social anxiety is one of the many classes of anxiety disorder. As is the case with the other forms of this condition, the symptoms can be very real to the person suffering from them. In fact, they can be so strong that complete avoidance of triggers is the defense mechanism that kicks in. Understanding the [...]

Okay, I admit I’m a perfectionist, but not in the way you might think. I like everything in order in my life, but I also discovered I try too hard to please everyone else. The result was I pleased no one including myself. In fact, the harder I tried to please my husband, my kids, [...]