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[23 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

A phobia can be defined as a fear not based in reality. When a person has a phobic attack, they get panicky feelings; their respiration and heart rates increase; they may experience feeling choked up like their heart is in their throat; the palms of their hands often get sweaty; they may experience a ringing in their ears; and they often find that they are unable to partake in an activity. These feelings motivate the individual to avoid the situations and environments that cause them.

Specific Examples Of Phobias:
For instance, if someone has a fear of driving, they would display these symptoms whenever they endeavor to drive, or maybe even when they just think about driving. Or a freight attack may …

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[23 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

A study reveals, “a 20-year-old worker has a 3 in 10 chance of becoming disabled before reaching retirement age.”
If you suddenly find yourself out of job because of disability, do not lose hope. There is disability insurance and benefits program that you can avail in the US to help you tide over the times you were disabled and thus off work.
Employer disability insurance program
Majority of employers offer medical, dental and life insurance benefits to their employees nowadays. On top of that, some offers disability benefits, which can range from short-term disability and long-term disability, or both.
You may want to know what your own company can offer you. Read the copy of your employee’s manual or contract of employment. …

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[23 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

 

Mental illness is a psychological pattern that occurs in an individual and it causes distress and disability. This medical condition disturbs a person’s thinking, daily doings, feeling and ability to maintain with others. Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. The most important thing is that it can be recovered.


Medical illnesses can take many forms, just as physical illnesses do. Mental illnesses are still feared and misunderstood by many people, but the fear will disappear as people learn more about them. To get the proper information you must get the following information.


Mental illness is very common. One from every four people in Britain …

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[21 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

Emotional freedom techniques or EFT works for the immediate and permanent elimination of various phobias. Many EFT practitioners have cured all sorts of phobias of people who have battled with it for years or all their lives.
The EFT in solving phobias involve redirecting the old thought patterns or response mechanisms of phobic people to the thing or situation they have a phobia about and basically creating a new set of more useful patterns or mechanisms of behavior to replace the old phobic response.
Thousands of testimonies from people who have been cured of their phobias have spread the word about the success of EFT. There were even known instances of phobias being cured in a single EFT session only.
In fact, EFT …

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[21 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

When poverty, natural disasters and conflicts are prevalent, people become more prone to mental problems. In fact, more than 200 million people all over the world suffer from mental disorders today, most of which are suffering from depression.

There are several types of mental disorders. Organic brain disorders are common as they include cardiovascular disorders, drug and alcohol related symptoms as well as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease which become more common in old age. There are also mood and anxiety disorders which are most common as they refer to depression and panic disorders. Meanwhile, personality disorders are a result of people’s inability to cope with stressful events and patients with such disorders end up behaving in an unusual or strange way …

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[19 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

Majority of young people with social phobia are frequently preoccupied with negative views of themselves. These children are afraid they will speak or act foolishly, be rejected by peers, or publicly fail when performing school tasks. Children with social phobia may in fact be less adept in social interactions.
When social phobia develops in childhood, the symptoms generally last at least six months, which distinguishes it from the temporary social awkwardness that many children briefly experience in new environments. Peer relationships, school functioning and attendance, and family functioning may all suffer as a result of a child’s social phobia.
Social phobia may look different in young people than in adults. While adults recognize the excessiveness of their discomfort in social situations, …

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[15 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

Phobia relates to fear developed by a person towards a particular thing or issue. Though it sounds weird, it is very natural for people to suffer from one or the other kind of phobias. For general people, phobia may sound silly, but that is the truth. A person will have phobia for one or the other things.

The most common phobia known to people is called claustrophobia. It means people are afraid of closed places. It could be a dark room or enclosed space. If people are put inside such places, they will surely be afraid. Similarly, there is another phobia relating to water. It is called hydrophobia. The word hydrophobia relates to fear of water. For some people, hydrophobia is …

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[15 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

To keep the memories of abusive experiences aside, some lock their emotions, thoughts, and experiences away. Some describe their disturbing memories as if they are in a file folder, hard drive, cabinet, on a shelf, or out of the body. For others, the “containers” are described as being hidden from view, out of sight, maybe out of mind. Despite being sealed shut by these distractions, each container wants to be unopened, despite the person’s fear of opening them. Trauma therapy means opening the containers, carefully, and with appropriate and clinically sound support. Releasing trauma’s hold on the body can be a gift, albeit one to open with awareness.
Your Body Has Memory
As you remember from part one of this article, the …

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[14 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

Bipolar mood disorder is the new name for what was called manic depressive illness. The new name is used as it better describes the extreme mood swings – from depression and sadness to elation and excitement – that people with this illness experience.
What are the symptoms of bipolar mood disorder?
Elevated mood – the person feels extremely high, happy and full of energy. The experience is often described as feeling on top of the world and being invincible.
Mania: A person in the manic phase may feel indestructible, full of energy, and ready for anything. Other times that person may be irritable and ready to argue with anyone who tries to get in the way.
Irritability – the person may get angry and …

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[14 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, you should know that Social Security disability benefits may be available to help ease some of the financial strain you may be experiencing.

 

You should also know that the average approval rate for Social Security disability claims is only 25% – 30%. Those sure don’t seem like very encouraging numbers.

 

Particularly since bipolar disorder is such a serious mental illness that, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, affects close to 5.7 million people yearly in the United States alone.

 

Avoid the #1 Reason Others Fall Into the Denied Category

 

The number one reason so many disability claims are denied is actually very simple and completely avoidable.

 

It’s basically because most …

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