Mothers of those with mental illness share a special burden that they rest of us can only begin to imagine. They have raised and loved a person, but that person seems to have disappeared. In her book, Cutting the Soul: A …
There was a review of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in this week's New England Journal of Medicine by Stein and Sareen (1). I just did a bit of a critical review of the concept here and thought I would look at what these …
According to WebMD (n.d.), social anxiety disorder, or social phobia, is where “a person has an excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations.” With individuals who have social anxiety disorder, they may fall into one of …
Persistent anxiety and uncontrollable worry for at least 6 months characterize generalized anxiety disorder. First-line treatments are cognitive behavioral therapy or pharmacotherapy with a selective serotonin-reuptake or …
by Altheia Luna. Suffering from social anxiety is like tiptoeing along the edge of a very steep cliff. The slightest look, the subtlest tone of voice, the smallest gesture that anyone does can set you off into a tirade of insecure, …
