Category: Anxiety Disorder
Dealing with Teen Anxiety
Feeling anxious during the teenage years is incredibly normal. For some, the teen years are the most stressful years of their life. Feeling anxiety can be a motivator for some teenagers who are nervous about a test or upcoming event. Anxiety can encourage them to want to study harder or break through nervousness about talking…
Facts about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental anxiety disorder that produces repeated thoughts or images that are unwanted. Those who suffer from obsessive thoughts are often aware that they are irrational but they can’t shake them, or resist their presence. OCD can be crippling to those who suffer from it. It can affect their job, their…
The Different Kinds of Anxiety Disorders
Everyone experiences a little nervous energy sometimes. Preparing for a speech, cramming for finals or walking into a job interview can certainly raise blood pressure and make the body tense, but true anxiety disorders present these uncomfortable feelings over and over for prolonged periods of time. The discomfort caused by anxiety disorders, for instance, panic…
Anxiety Awareness
“Everyone gets nervous, it’s normal!” . . . “It’s all in your head.” . . . “Just breathe, you’ll be fine.” . . . Have you ever heard one of these responses after admitting that you have been or are currently experiencing anxiety? Unfortunately, many people are uncomfortable or uneducated when it comes to mental…
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Understanding OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder that is defined by repetitive behaviors involved in reducing anxiety, as well as intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety, or both. Day-to-day functioning can be difficult for someone with OCD since the symptoms of this disorder can be life-encompassing and seem inescapable. Statistics indicate that 1–3% of…