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,...

Stress

Stress is one of the worst things to affect the life of an individual. Though it does no bodily harm directly, it can wreak havoc with your psychological makeup. Apart from that, stress is a cause of some of the fatal physical ailments, like high blood pressure, heart attack and cardiac arrest, as well as minor health problems, like poor digestion, insomnia, headaches, too much weight loss/gain, etc.

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A lot of parents and guardians of autistic children often ask themselves whether autism can be cured. Unfortunately it cannot be cured. You might often see many ads on products and books that offer cures for autism, but they are only misleading you. There is no actual cure for autism. There are only treatments that can make it easier to live with autism. Here are a few treatments to help autistic people.

Therapies

There are a number of therapies available that help...

Panic attacks and anxiety disorders affect even 5 year olds. The difference between these panic attacks on children and the same on adults is that the former one is tougher to detect. It is often misdiagnosed as a deficit disorder when it actually happens to be a panic attack on the child. Even hyperactivity is suspected sometimes, the main reason being the symptoms are close to being the same for both these kind of disorders. So it is often misdiagnosed in children.

While...

Panic attacks are common to us all.  What is different is the degree of these attacks, as it is different from one person to the next. Nevertheless, panic attack becomes “acute” when our normal day-to-day living is affected drastically by this condition.

Although it is natural for everyone of us to experience overwhelming feelings of panic and anxiety when we are confronted with threatening situations, acute panic attacks are made worse by the fact that no...

Reactive Attachment Disorder is a severe developmental disorder caused by a chronic history of maltreatment during the first couple of years of life. Reactive Attachment Disorder is frequently misdiagnosed by mental health professionals who do not have the appropriate training and experience evaluating and treating such children and adults. Often, children in the child welfare system have a variety of previous diagnoses. The behaviors and symptoms that are the basis for these...

"Cure" is not the right word to use for anxiety attack. As anxiety is a natural feeling which anyone can experience, it would be misleading to say that you can eliminate it forever. But make no mistake, a cure is possible.

And by cure I mean achieving a state which you no long have irrational fear, and is able to live the life you used to prior to being stuck with anxiety attack. This is what it means to be "cured" of anxiety attack.

However, take note...

A neurosis has different characteristics depending on the psychological type of each one. Here is a list with only the basic general symptoms:

1- The person becomes distrustful and considers everyone a possible enemy.
2- The person becomes too interested in other people’s opinion about them.
3- The acceptance of an absurd solution for a problem, a secret solution that the person knows that could be considered crazy and this is why they never reveal it to...

Most people shudder when they hear the word 'hypnosis'. They relate the word to a situation where a hypnotist gets to make people, who are plucked from a show audience, to do all sorts of stupid things like clucking and strutting around like a chicken. Most people are quite afraid of the prospect of being under the control of another person and so they are reluctant to be hypnotized.

You can however control your own hypnosis and through self hypnosis you can help yourself in...