Understanding neurochemistry, clinical symptoms, and interpersonal strategies is vital for managing PTSD, narcissism, and various mood disorders.
Anxiety is a common and potentially devastating behavioral health problem. While the symptoms are similar in kind to ordinary nervousness, they are much more severe and significantly impede normal functioning. Insomnia is a symptom commonly associated with anxiety, and treating anxiety often improves insomnia.
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If you follow a gluten-free diet, any product with wheat, barley or rye is off-limits. Cornmeal is made from dried corn kernels, and thus contains none of these ingredients.
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Many people experience anxiety while driving. This anxiety can be managed with certain relaxation techniques and thought changes. Anxiety is a normal response to stress that can become a debilitating disorder if it prevents you from performing required tasks, such as driving.
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Although the most important vitamins that protect you against stress and depression are the B vitamins, they cannot be stored in your body.
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A chemical imbalance is a diagnosis made by physicians and psychiatrists to explain why changes in the neurological state of a person occurs.
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Anxiety disorders affect about 20 percent of the adult population. These disorders have an adverse effect on daytime performance and nighttime sleep. They also put people at risk for substance abuse.
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Attention deficit disorder, or ADD, is a neurologically based behavioral condition that affects both children and adults. Some of the prescription medications used to treat this disorder have gained attention and controversy due to the unwanted effects and potential for abuse of these powerful drugs.
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Everyone has an attachment style, a part of your personality that determines how you behave in interpersonal relationships. Insecure attachment styles include attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance. An avoidant attachment style is characterized by reluctance to trust and rely on others and fear of intimacy.
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Your brain contains a number of chemicals called neurotransmitters that control your emotions, reactions, moods and even your physical movements. Your body synthesizes these chemicals naturally, but if it makes too much or too little of either one, your moods—and even your personality—may change.
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Autism spectrum disorders are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that affect higher brain functions. Autism becomes apparent before the age of three when impairments start affecting multiple areas in a person's life, says the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.
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Sprouts have the potential to provide significant nutritional heft to your regular diet. The process of seed germination results in a dramatic increase in their vitamin content over a very short time span.
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Many foods contain nutrients that are vital to hormonal and neurochemical activity and balance in our brains. Symptoms of depression and anxiety are worsened by vitamin and nutrient deficiencies. Foods rich in the following nutrients can help reduce anxiety and improve mood.
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The flu, or influenza, is a viral infection that mainly affects your nose, lungs and throat. The flu can cause diarrhea, vomiting and a decreased appetite. Although the flu may have similar symptoms to the common cold or the stomach flu, it is the effects of the influenza virus.
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For many people, fear of flying has nothing to do with worrying about the airplane crashing. Rather, flying triggers claustrophobia, which is a fear of being trapped in small, enclosed places such as an airplane cabin.
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Anxiety is a ubiquitous experience. When severe, it can indicate a psychiatric problem. Various medical conditions can cause anxiety. Before concluding that anxiety stems from psychological problems, a physician should assess the patient to rule out the presence of these conditions.
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Cymbalta and Prozac are two popular antidepressant medications manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company. Although there are many similarities between the two medications, there are also many differences.
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Your hands and other body parts shake slightly from the time awaken until your head hits the pillow, due to tiny muscle fibers contracting and releasing randomly. Normally, you will not notice this shaking unless it begins to interfere with normal activities like writing or eating.
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Seroquel, or quetiapine fumarate, is an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These mental illnesses are caused by severe chemical imbalances in the brain. Schizophrenia symptoms include disabling interference with thoughts and perceptions.
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Feeling hopeless and worthless, not being able to sleep, gaining weight from overeating and constantly feeling sad are symptoms of depression and things that most people would want to change. People seek help for depression with therapy, medication, group therapy and support from friends and family.
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According to Jeanne Segal, PhD, signs of autism become evident between the ages of 18 and 36 months old, with diagnosis typically taking place by the age of three. However, symptoms can be noticed as early as infancy.
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