Article by John C Allen

While there are a number of risk factors for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), there is one common thread for all those who suffer from it: real trauma. While not everyone who lives through a traumatic situation develops PTSD, our understanding of PTSD has evolved over the last few decades – and so has our understanding of the impact different kinds of trauma can have on our minds and bodies.

Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, flashbacks, exhaustion, and more extreme effects, have shown up throughout history and are often connected with war and conflict. Our modern understanding of PTSD was formed in the 1970s after the Vietnam War; soldiers continued to experience life-impacting effects long after they came home. Read the rest of this entry

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Article by Jaimeve

Is a condition where the person feels extremely worried or anxious on a regular basis. Exaggerated feelings of worry or anxiety are normal in some situations, but for people who have generalized anxiety disorder or related conditions, the feelings are out of proportion with the situation at hand.

People with generalized anxiety disorder are unable to stop worrying about everyday events and situations, and may become overly concerned with money, work, school, health or their families. They spend their days in constant worry or anxiety over certain situations, and they often end up feeling worn out, depressed, sad, and cannot enjoy relationships or social activities.

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Article by Denise M. Daniels

A generalized anxiety disorder can be described as excessive worry about every day things, a feeling that leaves behind a lot of tension and lasts for more than 6 months. This tension and anxiety will interfere with one’s way of life such that they are not able to function properly. You spend most of the time worrying; you feel impending doom and are overly anxious about things that would not usually worry you. When left unchecked, generalized anxiety disorders can lead to panic attacks.

Here is how this happens. Panic attacks can generally happen because of a feeling of increased tension and worry in a person. The more you worry, the more your body is convinced that there is some danger, and so starts preparing itself for defence. The typical defence reaction is called fight or flight; the body is getting ready either to fight the enemy, or to run away. It will start to feed the muscles with more energy, the heart will pump a little faster to make sure that more blood is moving amongst the muscles, and the muscles themselves will tighten just in case they have to move into action.

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Question by : I have severe anxiety disorder and have to go to truancy court for missing school?
I’ve been recently diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder and i have court for truancy. I don’t know what will happen at court and im kinda scared. What will happen at court?

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Article by Alisha

To know about generalized anxiety disorder first you should understand the overall symptoms and causes of anxiety disorder. It is a mental illness which a person has to face when diagnosed to it. In this disorder the person causes to a common symptoms is worry, fear and anxiety. People who are diagnosed to this disorder constantly think about the situation which happens on daily basis. For example, they always think that if I get affected to this disease or if this happens, then what one can do and many more queries. This kind of person lives the questions like what, why, how, when and other which makes them think constantly and repeatedly. This disorder also known as GAD, has to face many problems in their life. A person diagnosed to it then there may be various changes in their mental and physical behavior which are noticeable. In anxiety disorder they get physically ill and affected including muscles aches, twitching, fatigue, sweating, headache, irritation, hot flashes and lot more other symptoms.

When a person is affected to this disorder they get more concerned and possessive about their belongings and life including money, work, health, relation problems or any other problem. Most of the times they get very hyper in certain situation which are cannot be controlled, if you see such kind of symptoms then one should not avoid it. This anxiety level in some situation gets out of control and the person diagnosed to it gets and panic attack while suffering the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. Thoughts, worries, fear and scariness are the most common symptom which they have to suffer in their daily life. If this disorder triggers you then it is generally been said that the symptoms and the worries remains around for six months, if one does not go for a medical treatment then there are chances that the anxiety disorder may remain for years. So before the symptom of GAD increases and goes to the danger level one should go for check to your family doctor which will test the symptoms and recommend to mental health doctor.

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Question by : How to cope with panic attacks during exams?
I have panic disorder. My panic attacks happen precisely in closed spaces, like classrooms. I KNOW I will have a panic attack during my exams since I’ll have to be closed in a classroom 3 hours without permission to leave, in a hot place full of people.

What to do? I’m thinking of taking meds but then I’ll be VERY sleepy and not able to focus, plus meds make me sleepy but they don’t take the panic attacks away!

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Article by Iris0326

Are you experiencing symptoms of social phobia? It is characterized by the onset of fear when the person is exposed to or asked to perform before a group of people. The mere thought of it could send one in a state of panic. In some cases, the anxiety is so severe that the person just faints.

What’s more, it has many effects on your mental and physical health. It makes life much less enjoyable and it leaves sufferers out of many good opportunities. Therefore, social phobia is very important to be treated.

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