
VR and Anxiety
First, what is social anxiety? Social anxiety is one of the most common types of anxiety disorders in the world today. Social anxiety is a...
Help for Anxiety and Mental Disorders
First, what is social anxiety? Social anxiety is one of the most common types of anxiety disorders in the world today. Social anxiety is a...
I’ve been talking a lot about how anxiety has affected me. It’s ever present, it’s painful, and it’s fucking exhausting. I struggle with it every...
Those suffering from one of the anxiety disorders often choose to “self-medicate” as a way of coping. However, this only results in a vicious cycle of this self-treatment, followed by increased anxiety. Although a temporary respite, the substance abuse severely affects the way a person copes with increased anxiety. In other words, it just makes the problem, the disorder, more intensive, requiring more self-medication, and is often described as “the spiral of addiction.”
Anxiety is at the crux of a great deal of mental illnesses. The pain of a mental illness is that it comes from within you...
Exposure therapy is nothing revolutionary, but it is now being recognized as an effective method of conquering people’s fears and anxieties. It is now regularly...
Panic attacks can be the bane of your existence, and can make being out and about in the world extremely daunting. Never knowing when –...
Many of the most common anxiety disorders, such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or Social Anxiety Disorder, are well known. This, naturally, may lead people who...
Social Anxiety Disorder (known as SAD, but not to be confused with Seasonal Affective Disorder) is an anxiety disorder that results in extreme shyness. It...
Anxiety can be the bane of people’s existence, causing sleepless nights and panic attacks that are hugely detrimental to quality of life. While the symptoms...
At some point in their lives, more than 60% of the population will experience an anxiety attack. Sometimes called panic attacks, such occurrences can be...