How to recognize Social Anxiety Disorder

I was 20 years old and I couldn't stand the thought of leaving my house. Worse, I had to find a job. Going on a job interview, just one, was so exhausting I had to go home and go to bed to recover from the...

My Darkest Journey: Depression

Depression is a dark, ugly monster that consumes your mind with a spreading sensation of darkness. I know about depression first-hand. For one year of my life, I survived the clutch of this evil monster from...

All About OCD

Parenting a Teen with OCD

OCD used to be called the untreatable disease. Psychologists tried to use talk therapy. The treatment that is accepted as the only successful method today is called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The way it...

Inositol for Calming Nerves, Hair Loss, Impotence, and Mental Illness

Inositol works in concert with choline to aid in nerve function (calming), reduce numbness and tingling and even impotence in diabetic patients, and reduce cholesterol. It prevents hair loss and eye problems. It is extremely effective in treating anxiety and panic and a help in stablizing mental illnesses including bipolar disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder and more. It has been shown to help in treating Raynaud's disease, pancreatitis and many other disorders and ailments.

Bach Flower Remedies: Crab Apple And OCD

The Bach flower remedy Crab Apple stands for perfect order and balance but when there is need for it in the body, the person takes it to an extreme and wants everything around him to be flawlessly perfect. It...

OCD: An Anxiety Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is one of the most common mental disorders; however, it is also one of the most misunderstood. It is only too normal nowadays to hear or even say phrases such as “I’m...

Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding

Are you a hoarder or do you know someone who is? If so, don't feel alone. Although once unrecognized, nowadays, most of us have been introduced to the problems of compulsive hoarding through the media....

You Want Pancakes And Eggs With That Bipolar Brain

I had a horrible visit at the psychiatric doctor one Friday morning. I was there for my bipolar medication check-up. Things went completely wrong from the very beginning, I slipped into one of my impulsive...

What to Do About Pre-Teen Violence? - What You Don't Know

If we've waited for the Pre-Teen Years to begin Prevention against violence, we are already too late -- It began at birth. But while prevention needs to begin in infancy, treatment is available throughout the lifespan...