Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is often used to teach Fibromyalgia and other chronic pain sufferers how to cope with their illnesses.It is said to help treat many conditions and diseases like FM, back pain, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.  It helps determine how well a patient manages their pain and teaches them how to take control of it.  Depression plays a key role in the inability to be proactive in our treatment.  So, our state of mind is very important when it...

Imagine that you are on a hamster wheel, you can't stop it, you are forced to keep running and as you run you must perform certain actions, each a certain amount of times in a particular order. If you tried to stop the fears would overcome you, so you have to go on and on. For a sufferer of OCD or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder this is their life.

Sadly this illness can strike at any age from childhood to late middle age and the causes are still not confirmed. We have no...

Extreme or sustained anxiety leads to potentially damaging physical effects on our bodies. During times of anxious thoughts our bodies takeover and begin travelling through three phases of stress.

First, the body goes into fight or flight mode. This is the initial and immediate response to perceived threats If we're anxious our bodies assume danger is near. You experience a surge of energy and adrenaline which gives you the strength to fight off danger or run for safety.

For...

Sigmund Freud is said to be the originator of the classical theories of psychoanalysis. The various theories from Freud were made available in the form of various lectures published in the period from 1917 to 1933. Classical psychoanalysis aims at providing a deeper insight into you. This branch of psychoanalysis is aimed at helping a person to understand more about his or her behavior, strengths, as well as weaknesses. This method or therapy tries to reveal the unconscious self in...

I found out that the long-term effects of these prescription drugs for ADHD treatment for children have not even been determined yet! That means we are giving our children drugs we really don't know what effect they will have on them later in life. And to top it off, most Psychiatrists' drug of choice for ADHD treatment are the Psycho-stimulants that not only have harsh side effects but only treat the symptoms, not the problem.

Here are some of the reasons I found why you...

Sometimes I long for the old days. The days when people still had time. Father went to his job and mom stayed at home. Nowadays we never have enough time anymore. We are busy and we are stressed. But sometimes I remember how it used to be. I found three easy ways to solve stress.

Like many of us I am a working mom. I used to rush cooking the food for my family. I used to get stressed and rush housecleaning. My mind already thinking about what is next to do. I know now...

Two physicians, Friedman and Roseman, have written extensively about personality, cardiovascular disease, and stress. These researchers have described two stress-related personality types-type A and type B. Most people are neither type exclusively but fall somewhere between the two.

Type A personality is characterized by an urgent sense of time, impatience, competitiveness, aggressiveness, insecurity over status, and inability to relax. People with type A behavior...

The other day I found my mind wandering. I was trying to concentrate and I just couldn’t get my mind focused. Has this ever happened to you?

Let me ask you this, have you noticed recently that your mind tends to wander no matter what you are doing? Do you walk into a room only to forget why you even came in? I want you to know that you are not alone. This sort of absentmindedness plagues a huge percentage of the world’s population.

The real problem with...

The Fear of Panic Attacks in Children

When a child has a panic attack it can be a very scary experience. It's distressing to see a child shaking and short of breath. It can be a nightmare for the parents especially when they are not sure what is happening because they could think that their child is choking to death. It's important for all parents to know what a panic attack is like so that they can be prepared and so take the appropriate action should it ever happen to...

Arachnophobia is the extreme, debilitating, and persistent fear of spiders. It is not the rational fear of spider bites, not the sensible caution of avoiding old wood piles where the brown recluse like to lurk, not the refusal to handle a pet tarantula, but the panic attack brought on by the thought of spiders, the heart palpitations and trouble breathing experienced when a spider is in the room...an anxiety level that may require treatment in order to function without debilitating...