Anxiety

Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

What is the role of trauma in the creation of anxiety? This question raises complicated, far-reaching, and deeply compelling issues. Asking one question in this area raises even more questions than it provides definite answers....

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by intensive obsessions and/or compulsions which patients experience and which absolutely interfere with workings of their minds and lives. Obsessions are commonly known as worries, fears, thoughts, or feelings that one...

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Generalized anxiety disorder usually comes across in the patient who does not worry about any one topic or fear in particular, but instead always characteristically worries. It is a free-floating anxiety that might be described...

Does Anxiety Connect the Mind and the Body?

Does Anxiety Connect the Mind and the Body?

Commonly known as somatization, the body and brain work together in an integral way to illustrate a complicated interface between the mind and the body. Anxiety often is at the root of this interface. We...

What is The Anxiety of Psychosis?

Psychosis, generally speaking, is a type of loss of reality testing; properly speaking, it is a disorder of or a problem with thinking. This shift in thinking can be one of the most difficult anxieties...

What is The Anxiety of Suicide?

Suicide is a highly complicated psychiatric phenomenon; I often see it as falling into five major categories. The first would be an impulsive act in a person with a highly self-destructive nature who becomes disinhibited...

What is the Relationship Between other Drugs and Anxiety?

There are so many different drugs of use and abuse in our society; it is impossible to discuss more than a few in this text. Several appear commonly: marijuana, cocaine, heroin, prescription opiates, and ecstasy.These...

How Does Anxiety Appear In Children And Adolescents?

Bluelifer is largely devoted to the anxiety phenomenon experienced in adults. However, children experience at least as much, if not more, anxiety than adults. After all, much adult anxiety has its roots in childhood. Behaviors...

How Does Anxiety Appear In A Family?

An example might help to introduce some ways in which anxieties within the individuals of a family sys-tem can ricochet off of one another to create an inherent anxiety pattern within a given family. The...

What If My Doctor Tells Me I Will Die Soon?

Learning that one will die soon can be the most devastating news to hear. Depending on the psychology of the listener, many reactions can follow, ranging from total rage and panic to a type of...

What Is The Relationship Between Grief And Anxiety?

Hurricanes hit; cancer strikes; drunk drivers run over loved ones. Real calamity characterizes life. These losses can devastate, leaving a lifelong impact. We might ask how we will be able to go on, or how...

What If I Fear Commitment?

People have anxiety about all kinds of interpersonal commitments. By simple decision theory, saying “yes” to one option means saying “no” to another. Jokes help to alleviate the gravity of this fear in our culture....

What If I Feel Totally Helpless?

You are not alone, as feeling helpless is such a common feeling in dealing with overwhelming anxiety. It is important to remember that even though you may feel helpless, you do not have to continue...

What If I Am Anxious That I Might Be Gay?

Another sexual anxiety is homosexual anxiety. Dis-cussing sexuality in general, or homosexuality and bisexuality in particular, can make people uncomfortable, if not frankly anxious. With a drive as strong as human sexuality—a force which draws...

What Is Sexual Anxiety?

Not surprisingly, sexual relations are a common medium through which people experience and express anxiety. Avoidance of sexual activity is one of the most common manifestations of sexual anxiety. Patients who do so may have...

Does Pregnancy Cause Anxiety?

Pregnant women and their partners or couples wishing to conceive can experience several phases of anxiety. The first is that of contemplating pregnancy. Potential parents wonder if they are ready for the responsibilities ahead, also...

What If I Am Anxious That My Spouse Is Cheating On Me?

At times, patients report concern over their spouse’s fidelity. Actually verifying that the spouse is or is not cheating can prove helpful, as spouses can feel anxious for years only to learn that for several...

Is My Rage Related To Anxiety?

Aggression is one of the most common responses to anxiety. Bar fights, stalking behaviors, sexual violence, road rage, or abuse of prisoners all come to mind. Aggression is the fight part of the fight-or-flight response....