Anxiety is a complex mechanism that is triggered to help us deal with many of our day to day activities. Therefore anxiety is a normal reaction to stressful situations that people experience. However anxiety can become overwhelming and dominating, that is the exact point when it becomes what medics call 'chronic anxiety'. The most common symptoms of anxiety are severe headaches, sweating,...

Anxiety is a normal reaction to things that tend to frighten you or when you feel uncertain or overly stressed. Often anxiety brings sweating, muscle tension and an increased heart rate with it. Anxiety increases when you have financial problems, work problems or family problems. Here are a few methods that you can use to control your anxiety levels and also use in preventing panic attacks as...

Looking along my bookshelf, my eye was caught by a title, Triumph Over Fear: A Book of Help and Hope for People with Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Phobias by Jerilyn Ross ??? originally published by Bantam Books in 1994. When I picked it up again, I was surprised to see how long ago it was published. It seems to have survived in my memory well as striking a good balance between the use of...

Is there an effective remedy for anxiety? If you suffer from anxiety we first have to take a look at what you should avoid, even before we go deeper into the causes of anxiety: * Avoid Coffee I found this one a bit though myself a while back when I had to give up coffee for good. It was not easy and I can understand anyone, because I have been a caffeine addict for almost 10 years. And...

As our knowledge about depression continues to expand, it is becoming increasingly important to develop a careful and thorough approach to diagnosis. A comprehensive history is necessary to identify various medical causes of depression, any contribution of substance abuse, and a history of psychiatric comorbidities, such as anxiety, psychosis, or personality disorders, because each of these...