Alternative Therapies-Part 2

Biofeedback: Learning to control muscle tension and "involuntary" body functioning, such as heart rate and skin temperature, can b...

Alternative Methods in Mental Health Care

What are alternative approaches to mental health care? An alternative approach to mental health care is one that emphasizes the interrelatio...

Agoraphobia

The fear of traveling is the common definition of agoraphobia. This can be a serious condition in which a person isn't able to leave the...

Adult Attention Deficit Disorder

Adult attention deficit disorder, or adult ADD, can be a very frustrating condition to have. Almost all of the initial research and focus fo...

Addiction and Personality Disorder

Substance abuse and dependence (alcoholism, drug addiction) is only one form of recurrent and self-defeating pattern of misconduct. People a...

World Mental Health Day 2008

Celebrated during the 10th of October, mental health day is an international educational campaign which aims to extend knowledge on mental h...

Winnebago Mental Health Institute Its History and Development

If we speak of a primary center for treatment of mental illness in Wisconsin, Winnebago Mental Health Institute or WMHI is the first facilit...

When the Cure Harms

Zoloft is an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor); a prescription drug that combats depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress diso...

When Fear Paralyzes

General Anxiety Disorder affects roughly 4 to 5 million people of the American population alone. The symptoms are many and vary from person ...

When Anxiety Becomes a Personality Disorder

Very severe anxiety can sometimes lead doctors to diagnose people with personality disorders. Symptoms of the two most prevalent ones are de...

What is Mental Health: Key Concepts in Mental Health

Definition Mental health is defined as a state or condition on which an individual feels a sense of well-being. This gives him or her the ca...

What is Trichotillomania?

It is a compulsive hair-pulling disorder that can lead to permanent hair loss on the head and can also affect eyebrows and eyelashes. This c...

What is Social Anxiety

Social anxiety disorder symptoms can vary. Some individuals may only suffer from a specific fear such as eating or drinking, speaking, or w...

What is Social Anxiety Disorder?

Social anxiety disorder may be easily misdiagnosed or even be mistaken as a form of shyness. Having said that, many sufferers of social anxi...

What is a Mood Disorder?

Mood disorder has become a bit of a generic term when discussing mental health. In reality, the term mood disorder refers to one of two spec...

Types of Self-Injury

The most common form of self-injury is actually cutting yourself. There are many reasons this may occur. One is the feeling of guilt over a...

Two Herbs that Help with mental distress

We often here of how well plants, especially herbs, can help increase the effectiveness of the body's immune system. Mental distress is...

The Types of Depression

Depression can take many forms. Seasonal affective disorder, clinical depression, and bipolar depression and postpartum depression are all c...

The Psychopathic Personality

Are the psychopath, sociopath, and someone with the Antisocial Personality Disorder one and the same? The DSM says "yes". The psyc...

The Most Common Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors

*When people are obsessed at avoiding being dirty or contaminated, they frequently wash their hands and feet, clean and bathe their bodies....