Not very long ago I added a small chat room to Anxiety Guru and let's just say that it didn't work out. My goal has always been to inform and educate people about anxiety disorders but I also aim to create an online community - a support network I guess you could say. Lofty goals aside, the chat room thing fell through because I think people visited the site at different times and more than likely missed each other or were turned off by the 'live' nature of chat. With the new forum readers will be able to post questions, answer questions,
More About The Causes Of Anxiety Disorders
As of today scientist don't know what causes anxiety disorders but they have some good guesses. Click the image to read about what those guesses are. Do you have a theory about the origin of anxiety disorders?
Study: Social Anxiety Sufferers Are More Sensitive To Negative Comments
It's bound to happen at some point in everyone's life. Somebody makes a negative comment and it hurts your feelings in a big way. But according to a new study conducted by researchers affiliated with the National Institute Of Mental Health social anxiety sufferers react more to these types of comments. The study subjects were split into two groups - those with and without social anxiety disorder . The two groups were shown a series of negative comments and those without an anxiety disorder were found to react far less negatively than their
Life With Anxiety And Obsession
Click on the image to read story. In this short article a man describes his life with anxiety and how it finally ended up causing him to go from simply anxious to obsessed. Although slightly humorous I wanted to share the article as an example of why you don't want to have an untreated anxiety disorder. In a recent article I wrote called "The Building Blocks Of Anxiety Disorder" I explained the reasons why anxiety can build up over time. This article is really about what can happen to a person when they allow their anxiety to
Watch: Sherwin Nuland Talks Depression, Obsession, Recovery
Having an anxiety disorder often means that you will likely also struggle with depression at some point. I mean how could you not? There is only so much a person can take before they feel exhausted and defeated by their constant introspection and seemingly futile search for relief. This video of American surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland is a great example of what depression and anxiety can do to a person but also what they can do to recover. The treatment used by Nuland, electroconvulsive therapy (shock treatment), is somewhat outdated and
Why Some People Respond to Anxiety Medication And Others Don’t
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Bad Economy Causing More People To Seek Help For Mental Ailments
An Illinois hospital near Chicago has seen a sharp increase in the number of people seeking help for mental ailments. This has had an adverse effect on the hospital's ability to accept new patients. The Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates, IL has turned away at least 1,200 patients this year alone. (click image to read more)
Watch: Young Woman Struggles With OCD And Fear Of Death
A young Utah woman struggles with the anxiety disorder OCD and a morbid fear of death. But instead of hiding from her fears she has decided to confront those fears headon. She has teamed up with a campus psychologist who has suggested that she visit her local funeral home to help her overcome the OCD and phobias that rule her life. (Click image to watch video)
Doctoral Thesis Finds That Anxiety Sufferers Are Symptom Hyperactive
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