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Understanding a Very Anxious Person
Advice for those trying to understand and help an anxious friend or family member
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Stress Caused by Negative Family and Friends
How do you deal with family or friends treating you badly and causing you stress?
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Resources for Panic Disorder Sufferers
Having regular panic attacks can be very disabling. Information, help and support for panic disorder
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Memory and Bad Habits Provoke More Anxiety
If you suffer with a severe anxiety problem or disorder, your memory and bad habits may be helping to keep you anxious.
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Tips for Prediabetes: What I Learned When I Was Diagnosed
Advice for those who have been told they are borderline diabetic.
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Why Do You Have Nausea?
Feeling sick to the stomach without actually vomiting week after week can be very debilitating. How I found out the root cause of my nausea.
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Types of Therapy for Mental Illness Explained
There are various therapies to help those with mental health problems, but do you know which one is best for you?
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Assertive Skills for Anxious People
When we are constantly on edge and worried, our communication skills can become affected. Why is it important that we communicate well when stressed?
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Helping a Friend with Bipolar Mood Disorder
Advice when you have a friend with bipolar disorder.
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Effects of Treatment on Teenagers with Mental Illness
Having a mental illness when you are a teen can change your life.
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How I Cope With Travel Anxiety
A travel phobia can limit a person's life to a great degree. Are you scared to use public transportation?
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Is it Better to be a Parent or Friend to Our Kids?
How much friendship is healthy for a parent and child relationship or are you too strict?
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How to Handle Fear of Choking
How can you cope with a fear of choking when you have a chronic anxiety problem?
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Eating Disorder Signs for Parents
Do you suspect your teenager has anorexia or bulimia? What are the signs and how can you help?
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Anxiety Problems & the Benefits of Meditation
Learning to meditate is a great way to handle stress and anxiety disorders.
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The Best Way to Stop Panic Attacks
I spent half my life suffering with panic disorder. Although I haven’t had a panic attack in years, I remember them all too well. This article discusses the techniques that worked for me.
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Effects of Mental Health Recovery and Discharge Planning
How would you cope with being discharged from mental health services?
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Kidney Function after Kidney Surgery
Chronic kidney disease and living with one kidney
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How to Cure Fear of the Dark in Children
What can you do to address your child's worry when going to bed?
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Symptoms and Diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
How do you know if you have GAD?
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Coping With Fear of Flying
Tips for handling a flying phobia
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How to Prevent Abuse of the Elderly
How can we protect our elderly relatives when they are in the care of others?
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Severe Anxiety & Effects on Relationships
Anxiety disorders can cause relationships to break down. Good advice for anxious people and their partners.
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Stigma and Mental Illness: Exploring Derogatory Terms
People who have a mental health disorder have to live with stigma and discrimination. The popular use of slang terminology doesn't help.
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Mental Illness Treatment and Making a Complaint
A guide to filing a complaint about mental health services and treatments in the UK.
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How to Control Feelings of Depression
Can you stop yourself spiralling into a pit of depression?
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Best Gifts for Someone With Vision Problems
Here is some advice for buying practical aids for those who have failing eyesight or vision problems.
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Aging-Related Eye Diseases
What are the symptoms and risks to our sight as we get older?
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Malingering in Mental Health Care
Why would people deliberately try to fool mental health professionals and risk psychiatric treatment?
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Dealing With Dependent Personality Disorder
Do you fear being alone and think you cannot cope without someone else by your side? You may have a dependent personality disorder.
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Adrenal Fatigue and Stress Exhaustion
Morning tiredness and unexplained pains are easily put down to being stressed out, but could you have a bigger problem?
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Intrusive Thoughts and Feelings With High Anxiety
Disturbing thoughts can be a major problem for those who suffer from anxiety disorders. Why do you get them and how can you deal with them?
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Substance Abuse and Anxiety Disorder
What prop do you use to calm your nerves?
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Coping With Nephrectomy: My Silent Cancer and Kidney Removal
Renal cell carcinoma can be a silent cancer. It is often only found by chance whilst having a CT scan or MRI scan for investigating other illness.
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Major Depressive Disorder: Psychotic Depression
Depression, itself, is enough to change your behaviour and impede your functioning. Psychosis can exacerbate those changes and make the experience terrifying. Learn about how it can be treated.
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How to Cope With Schizoaffective Disorder
The symptoms of a mood disorder and schizophrenia can merge to become a disorder known as schizoaffective. Coping can be very difficult.
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Anti Psychiatry Voices
Why do many people question psychiatry?
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Psychological Abuse and Controlling Men
When we think of domestic violence, we inevitably think of physical abuse. Emotional abuse is a much less acknowledged form of abuse that can be just as traumatic.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Depression Treatment
Antidepressants are given out all too easily for depression, but there are other ways to treat depression too.
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Dealing with School Phobia and Separation Anxiety
What can a parent do when a child refuses to go to school?
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Side Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs: Should We Be Alarmed?
The potential severe side-effects from taking anti-psychotic medication seems to have been ignored for many years. What should we know about these drugs?
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When an Overdose Becomes Attention Seeking
If a person repeatedly overdoses on pills but always survives... and yet claims it is because of a desire to die, does it necessarily mean their intent is false? Is it attention-seeking behaviour?
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How to Overcome Fear of Medical Procedures and Operations
What can we do to address our fears of necessary dentistry, medical testing and surgical procedures?
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What it Feels Like to Be Pregnant
What can a woman expect in her first pregnancy?
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Best Self-Help Books for Anxiety and Depression
Self-help books for anxiety disorders and depression
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Loss of Identity with a Psychiatric Diagnosis
Identity changes are inevitable when you are diagnosed with a mental illness.
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Psychiatric Evaluation: Crisis Care of Depression
When we become depressed and reach a crisis point, it is the opinions of professionals that really count as far as treatment is concerned.
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Natural Alternatives for Common Health Problems
Treating colds, headaches, indigestion and anxiety, doesn't have to mean taking prescription medications.
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Effects of Stress in People with Mental Illness
Those with a mental illness find stress very difficult to deal with without support.
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Caring for Our Children: Importance of Discipline
How we care for our children and teach them good values is important.
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Coping with Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Tips for those with emphysema, COPD, or chronic bronchitis
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Communication Problems in a Psychiatric Ward
A mental health crisis can be very traumatic, but it is made worse by bad communication.
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Stress Overload: Nonepileptic Seizures
What happens when stress builds to gigantic proportions? What happens when stress converts itself into a physical manifestation? This article explains what nonepileptic seizures are.
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Abandoned Asylums and Community Psychiatry
Is community care for mental health improving the service generally?
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How to Deal With Psychiatric Abuse
If we need the help of the psychiatric service, we all hope for a good relationship with those who treat and care for us. What can we do when this fails?
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Patients Safety in Psychiatric Wards
We all read shocking stories about violence and mental health issues and of course we tend to believe what the media tells us. How much of this is true? We need to know the facts in case there comes a time when we need to have mental health inpatient care in a crisis.
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Promoting Mental Health
Sometimes we need support or even intervention to avoid a mental health crisis. How can we promote and support mental health in our society?
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How to Treat Mild Anxiety Disorder
How do you cope with anxiety when it becomes a way of life for you? Are you a worrier who does not know how to relax? Learn about the symptoms and treatment options for mild anxiety disorder.
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How to Deal With a Depressed Coworker
Sometimes people find it difficult to share their feelings in the workplace due to discrimination or stigma. Could you give someone at work the support they need if they are suffering from depression? Would you know what to say or do?
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Seasonal Anxiety Disorder
Seasonal depression is quite common. Do you feel you may be suffering from anxiety disorder connected to either winter or summer?
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How to Cure a Blushing Phobia
For some people blushing can become something to fear and dread so that it interferes with their daily lives. How can we address a fear or phobia of blushing?
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How to Beat Feeling Lonely or Depressed
Some people prefer their own company to that of others and that's OK. When being alone is keeping you isolated for all the wrong reasons you could suffer depression also. How can you stop the vicious cycle of loneliness and depression?
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How to Conquer Your Fear of Dog Phobia
Dogs make good family pets but a dog bite can leave a person with a dog phobia for life. We have so many dogs in the world it is difficult to avoid them so it makes sense to address your fear of them. There are therapies and self-help strategies to deal with this problem.
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How to Help Your Social Anxiety Disorder
Having a social phobia can severely interfere with your everyday life. There are ways to address social anxiety without taking medication.
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Health Anxiety with Anxiety Disorders
Health anxiety is probably more common than you think when you already have an anxiety disorder. When we become preoccupied with every little twinge or bodily symptom the results can feel harrowing.
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Online Cures for Panic Disorder
Can you trust that cure you found online for panic disorder?
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What You Should Know About Anxiety Disorder Medication
Do you know everything you should about your anti-anxiety medication?
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Panic Attacks - Reaction and Control
Stop trying to control panic disorder
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Postnatal Depression and Postpartum Psychosis
Postnatal depression and severe puerperal psychosis can happen to any new mother. Researching the features of both is important to be able to recognize these conditions in yourself.
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4 Reasons You Should Take Responsibility for Your Panic Disorder Behavior
Are you really addressing your panic disorder? Long-standing panic disorder can create a multitude of bad habits. Taking responsibility for your panic or fear problem is a big step towards your recovery.
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Depersonalization and Derealization: Symptoms of Severe Anxiety
A severe anxiety problem or bout of depression can produce many odd symptoms. Depersonalization and derealization are two of the worst symptoms a sufferer may encounter.
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Depression and Anxiety: Comorbidities in Mental Health
Depression and anxiety commonly exist together. Can one of these make a primary mental illness diagnosis worse? Here's what you need to know about comorbidities in mental health.
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Stress and Physical Illness - The Anxiety Related Question
Have you ever got the impression your doctor seems to blame too much on your anxiety. If you suffer high levels of stress you may find as a result that you suffer more physically.
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Psychiatrists in Adult Mental Health
Interesting facts for service users about psychiatrists in the UK
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Mental Health Forums - The Good and Bad
Are online groups and forums a positive help for mental illnesses?
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Anxiety Disorders and Changing Bad Habits
Looking at how your habits may be contributing to your anxious state.
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Anxiety Disorders & Dr Claire Weekes Books
Dr Claire Weekes pioneered a treatment to address anxiety disorders that is still used widely today.
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Treating Elderly Patients in Hospital with Dignity
Going into hospital for a short or long stay can be unsettling for anyone. For the elderly, it can be a confusing and worrying time and we need to be taking care of them adequately. What happens when their needs are not met?
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Quality of Nursing Care Today
Do you feel the standards of hospital care have declined?
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How Does Panic Disorder Start?
A panic disorder can only develop if you have a negative first panic attack experience. What turns a panic attack into a panic disorder?
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Agoraphobia - Shopping and Panic
People take going shopping for granted. What happens when this everyday activity brings such fear that you totally avoid doing it?
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Acid Reflux GERD - Mystery and Confusion
Do you suffer with acid problems such as burping, heartburn and sore throat?