Tag: mental disorders
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20 Habits That Improve Mental Health
Some argue that mental health is just as important as physical health; fair enough, but one could make a strong case that the former supersedes the latter. Without proper mental faculties, no level of physical prowess will overcome this weakness. βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with…
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How to Train Your Brain To Avoid Anxiety
βThe thing that makes fears and phobias so persistent is that virtually anything you do to oppose, escape, or distract from the anxious feelings and thoughts will be turned against you, and make the anxiety a more persistent part of your life.β – Dr. David Carbonell While the exact cause of anxiety, particularly anxiety disorders,…
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Schizophrenia Found to Actually Be These 8 Genetic Disorders
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental health disorder that affects more than 1% of the American population, or one in every 100 individuals between the ages of 16 to 30. Its’ symptoms include paranoid delusions, agitation, hallucinations, and dysfunctional thought processing. Until recently, schizophrenia was thought to be a single disease. However, scientists have found new…
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How Depression Changes Your Brain (And Ways to Reverse It)
It seems that more people live with depression than ever before. In fact, according to the World Health Organization(WHO), an estimated 350 million people of all ages worldwide suffer from this mentally debilitating disease. Depression can change your brain, altering the neural pathways and synapses and shrinking the size of your hippocampus, an area of…
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5 Warning Signs Of Chronic Anxiety You Should Never Ignore
“Anxiety disorders are a category of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear, where anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events.” β Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Anxiety can easily take over your whole life if you don’t know how to effectively handle…
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This Is For Every Person Who Has Ever Had Anxiety
In the fast-paced, chaotic world we live in today, it seems that more people suffer from anxiety than ever before. In fact, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 40 million adults age 18 or older in the United States have some anxiety disorder, making anxiety the most common mental illness in America.…