Excessive anxiety is troublesome.  For many, it can be an immobilizing experience.  Anxiousness can be associated with social avoidance and withdrawal, can be a factor in relationship difficulties, can create painful symptoms, and trigger a need to rehash issues related to our past and future.  Anxiety triggers the "fight or flight" response, ramping up our sympathetic nervous system.

The most successful treatment approach to dealing...

Stress is a natural response of our body to conceived threats and pressures in life; while anxiety is simply a feeling of worry; nervousness or an intense apprehension of real or imagined danger. It could also be a strong wish to do something; especially if the wish is unhealthy strong such as being anxious to do the right thing. Hence, anxiety sometimes occurs as a result of lack of confidence in self.

Both stress and anxiety are normal reactions in our body in response to...

More and more frequently we hears about brutal violence towards defenceless and innocent persons. Who can act so violently? Who can be so sadic? “They are mentally ill persons, they’re disturbed… they are monsters!”: this is the most frequent expression pronounced by people who read and listen about these horrible deeds. We use to think that these horrible acts can be thought and realized only by monsters, and not by normal men. “I wouldn’t ever...

Every Parent's Nightmare

Most of the parent-child conflicts are those centred on daily activities like going to bed or waking up, limitations of going outdoors and school homework. Many parents feel as they are engaged in a constant power struggle with their children. Parents feel frustrated and worn out and the children feel questioned and irritated. In cases of extreme hostility between the two, a child may feel threatened and determined to resist his parents'...

There are various types of theories or information that comes with psychology that can be useful. Psychological theories are useful to a psychologist because, if it written, they can always refer to it again to find more truth or meaning to a certain reasoning.

This kind of theories also help the psychologist in the legal world where the psychologist is helping the police try and find a criminal that has committed a certain crime and the police are baffled with how to move...

What The Place, Time And How You Eat Betray

You are what you eat.

All Day Long:

Although actually full, you feel the need to give just a little bit more to yourself. Essentially feeding your lack of self assuredness.

Anorexic:

Taught not to give in to basic pleasures even moderately, this being the devil’s way, you have actually denied yourself living.

At Home:

Although you are not a spendthrift, you are known to have been labeled at times...

When we study about memory in organism, we can use different point of view. We can study the memory using the cognitive psychology, cognitive neurology or any other standpoints. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, at least we can group memory in three categories, sensory register, Short-Term Memory (STM) and Long-Term Memory (LTM).

After perceived by one of the senses, a stimulus then passed to the sensory register for the organism to recognize the coming stimulus....

This is much like asking: "Is Medicine or Psychology scientific?" The answer is: "Some aspects are very scientific and some are not. As well, some practitioners are more competent than others. Also, some aspects of Psychology involve projective techniques (e.g. the Rorschach Inkblot test) which rely heavily on the skill of the practitioner and do not easily stand up to "hard core" validation measures. They can, nevertheless, be accepted as scientific if they...

Crowds have never been a problem before and neither has speaking up in front of a large room of people, but all of a sudden it seems to send you into a nervous fit of shaking, sweating, increased heart rate and feeling nauseous. The room swirls and it feels like fainting is the next thing that is going to happen. What is this? What has caused the individual to experience one or more of these symptoms?

What this sounds like is a panic attack. Some people may have always...

Difficulty in breathing. Dizzy spells. Feeling restless. Are you feeling these symptoms of having an anxiety attack?Yes, it is. The worst thing there is it might not just be a symptom but a condition wherein anxiety panic attacks occur which may lead to chronic disease when not treated.

Having anxiety attacks is a feeling that you don’t like to feel ever. I know how it feels and I understand it because I too experienced you are going through.But I succeeded the battle of...