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Product DescriptionThis digital document is a journal article from Behaviour Research and Therapy, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: As a follow-up to our earlier report [Behav. Res. Ther., in press] on the level of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), depressive symptoms, and frequency of diagnoses of probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among college students at three public universities (Albany, NY, Augusta, GA, and Fargo, ND) resulting from the September 11, 2001. Terrorist attacks, we surveyed comparable groups of students (total, n=1313) from these three institutions in the weeks following the first anniversary (2002) of the …
Phobia (FO-bee-ah): a persistent irrational fear of an object, situation, or activity that the person feels compelled to avoid. (Wood 689) And that is only the start of it. Phobias can interfere with your ability to work, socialize, and go about a daily routine (American). People who have phobias are often so overwhelmed by their anxiety that they avoid the feared objects or situations (NIMH). For most people, the simple pleasures of life are striped from them.
Symptoms of a phobia include the following:
· Feelings of panic, dread, horror, or terror .
· Recognition that the fear goes beyond normal boundaries and the actual threat of danger.
· Rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, trembling, and an overwhelming desire to flee the situationâall the physical reactions …
It is true that even today with communication channels open and increasing daily, very few people are aware of mental health conditions that affect the brain functioning of human beings that appear perfectly normal but are subject to fits of depression and emotional imbalance frequently, or for long periods even. This is termed as bipolar disorder, a brain condition that can adversely affect the daily life of those diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which prevents them from functioning normally as healthy individuals, loss of motor skills, speech problems as well as difficulty in controlling emotions.
If left untreated, patients suffering from bipolar disorder can become extremely moody, experience abnormal highs and lows in happy to sad and manic depressed moods and even …
Research on brain structure and function, neurochemical messenger systems (neurotransmitters), and brain-body connections suggests fundamental, delicate, two-way relationships between the brain’s environment and mood, behavior, and resistance to disease.
One focus of brain research has been to identify and integrate traditional medical and psychiatric knowledge with new psychobiological and “psychoneuroimmunologic” data.
Researchers in the field of psychobiology study the biologic basis of disturbances and have established some relationships between mental disorders and changes in the structure and function of the brain.
Findings on research about mental disorders suggest that the health care community ought to place as much emphasis on emotional health as it places on physiological health and ought to recognize how biological, emotional, and societal problems combine to affect individual …
In order to become successful in life, it is quite essential to be healthy and wise. While any sort of physical restrictions of the body can be fought with and dealt with, the central processing unit of our body that is our brain needs to be absolutely perfect in order to live a happy & successful life. For all our errands what we primarily need is a sharp brain so as to understand our environment and act promptly & make well evaluated decisions.
Along with a perfectly working brain, what we need is a control over our emotions. Being over excited or unduly angry all the time would not help us in any way. Quoting in …
Do you find that you have wild mood shifts from depression to euphoria? Do you find that your life is being compromised by your unstable mental state? Do you find yourself sometimes talking over people and talking too fast? Did you have episodes of super creativity with lots of ideas but unable to focus on any one in particular? Have you engaged in very risky behaviors believing there was no way you could fail? Have your actions caused severe damage to your life or that of your family? Have you entered depression that lasted for 4 days or more and then reverted back to euphoria? These are typical symptoms of bipolar disorder.
This mental disorder that affects millions of Americans and …
Symptoms of Bipolar disorder have been found in a greater percentage of women across America. Survey suggests that the count of women getting diagnosed with the disorder increases every year. The signs and symptoms can vary from mild to severe. There may even time when a person does seem to be normal. So Let’s take a look at this psychiatric disease.
Signs of Bipolar Disorder
Characterized by mood disorder, bipolar disorder is identified as shift in the mood, energy and functioning ability of a woman. You can further distinguish it by a woman experiencing several cycles of manic episode. Their episodes involve abnormally elevated frame of mind along with depressive symptoms or episodes. But, what actually causes these episodes?
Causes (or Triggers) behind …
There are many illnesses which have been known to cause much confusion in people, especially in recorded history, such as depression. This disorder was suffered by historical figures such as King David and Job (from the Hebrew bible). Hippocrates even mentioned having depression, which was then contemporarily known as Melancholia, caused by the excess of ‘black bile. Old medical physiologyy stated there were four humours based on the four main bodily fluids black and yellow bile, blood and lastly, phlegm. For years to come, depression was portrayed in arts and literature. what do we understand about depressive disorder today?
Depressive disorders have been around for centuries, and many people have suffered without getting diagnosed and …
Bipolar disorder also known as manic-depressive illness can have serious consequences on the sufferer’s life as well as those around them. The patient needs constant attention either from their treating psychiatrist, close friends and family.
In America, there are approximately two million people diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Yet, most of them are unaware that anything is wrong. Symptoms begin to show out during adolescence or early adulthood in most of the cases. There is nothing to worry about because bipolar is a treatable disease. People need to know how to recognize the different symptoms to get the proper treatment after the diagnosis.
Being down and depressed does not necessarily occur in bipolar patients. Their moods go up and down and switch between …
Anxiety attack is the condition caused by an abnormal response to external stress that in turn, effects biological changes in the body. People that suffer from these attacks and related physical symptoms may feel as if they are going to have a heart attack, suffocate or pass out at times. Stress related triggers can cause unwelcome symptoms, and scary side affects that in reality, are not life threatening to the person who experiences them.
The basic cause of an attack is related to an imbalance in neurons in the amygdala area of the brain. This part of the brain deals primarily with processing emotional reactions in association with human memory functions. While the condition may seem complicated to deal …
