Anxiety Disorder Pro

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 [...]

As complementary and alternative medicines become more popular in society the resources for advice become more common as well. Talking about health and health problems is very common in society; seems to be almost as common as talking about the weather. With the internet being at almost everyone’s finger tips, the most common place for [...]

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 [...]

Women have been having babies every since humans have roamed the earth. However, with the centuries of medicine and technology improving it has become very common for women to seek pain management for labor through drug therapy. Although epidurals are an excellent way for women to go through labor with as little pain as possible, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I used to think panic attacks were not "curable". That's because when I experienced a panic attack, it would hit me out of the blue for no apparent reason. I knew I was physically quite healthy so the panic seemed to have no cause. How do you cope with something you can't really identify? After [...]