Anxiety
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Gadgets boost presentations, relieve stress
Stressed? Maybe the emWave Personal Stress Reliever can help. According to the gadget’s maker, all you have to do is place your thumb on the sensor, or if you prefer, attach its ear sensor. After it detects your pulse, its breathing pacer will get in sync with your heart rhythms while you employ stress-reducing techniques included in its guide. At the very least, playing with the gadget is sure to take your mind off your worries, at least for a while.”
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Monday, December 08, 2008
Reducing the Fear Factor
Workers look for reassurance from their employers as the financial downturn raises economic anxiety to new heights.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Stress, Anxiety Can Make Allergy Attacks Even More Miserable and Last Longer
STRESS, ANXIETY CAN MAKE ALLERGY ATTACKS EVEN MORE MISERABLE AND LAST LONGER
A new study shows that even slight stress and anxiety can substantially worsen a person’s allergic reaction to some routine allergens. Moreover, the added impact of stress and anxiety seem to linger, causing the second day of a stressed person’s allergy attack to be much worse.
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
Social Worker Uses HeartMath Techniques with Katrina Victims
Butch Robicheaux, a clinical social worker, discusses how he used HeartMath’s Quick Coherence technique and the emWave PC Stress Relief System to help people deal with the emotional aftermath following a natural disaster. He also shares how he has used this with a client with postpartum depression.
ADHD • Anxiety • Depression • HeartMath • PTSD • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Family Stress And Child’s Temper Extremes Contribute To Anxiety And Depression In Children
Small children who grow up in a family where the mother has psychological distress, the family is exposed to stress or is lacking social support, are at higher risk of developing anxious and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Girls are more vulnerable than boys, and very timid or short-tempered children are more vulnerable than others to develop emotional problems.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Foreclosures take an emotional toll on many homeowners
The housing crisis is wrenching the emotional lives of legions of homeowners. The escalating pace of foreclosures and rising fears among some homeowners about keeping up with their mortgages are creating a range of emotional problems, mental-health specialists say. Those include anxiety disorders, depression and addictive behaviors such as alcoholism and gambling. And, in a few cases, suicide.
Anxiety • Depression • Economy • Relationships • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Men are more likely than women to crave alcohol when they feel negative emotions
Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol.
Addiction • Anxiety • Depression • Women • (0) Comments • Permalink
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Free Webinar – Transforming Anxiety
Renowned psychologist and author of Transforming Anxiety, Deborah Rozman, Ph.D. will discuss HeartMath solutions for relieving anxiety. This webinar describes a simple, straightforward, drug-free method to transform anxiety. Changes brought about through this method are fast-acting and long-lasting.
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Anxiety, Mood Disorders Put Cancer Patients At Risk For PTSD
Breast cancer patients who have a prior history of mood and anxiety disorders are at a much higher risk of experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder following their diagnosis, new research suggests. A study of 74 breast cancer patients at the Ohio State University Medical Center found that 16 percent of them (12 women) suffered from PTSD 18 months after diagnosis.
Anxiety • Cancer • Depression • PTSD • Women • (0) Comments • Permalink
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Virtual reality Tube ride reveals extent of public paranoia
The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, demonstrates that suspicious or paranoid thoughts are much more common in the general population than was previously thought and that they are almost as common as anxiety and depression.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Managing Stress Can Lower Heart Death Risk
Emphasizing an old adage, new medical research confirms that keeping stress levels under control can significantly reduce the risk of a heart attack or death in patients with coronary artery disease. Although a correlation between stress and various heart ailments has been established in the past, this is the first observational study to examine the effect of anxiety or depression treatment on a heart patient’s risk factors.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Patients with larger social networks may fare better after an operation
A new study published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that patients with a large support network of family and friends report feeling less pain and anxiety prior to having a surgical procedure, which can have a substantially positive impact on their postoperative recovery. The findings suggest that it is important for clinicians to be aware of the close relationship between patients’ social networks and their impact on preoperative pain and anxiety, and how these relationships can affect patient recovery after major operations.
Anxiety • Pain • Relationships • (0) Comments • Permalink
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Sept. 11 Terrorism Continues to Impact Mental Health of Americans
Long after Sept. 11, 2001, Americans’ terrorism-related thoughts and fears are associated with increased depression, anxiety, hostility, posttraumatic stress and drinking, University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have found.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
The Role of Stress in Just About Everything
You live in a majorly stressed out world. You’re never very far from a ringing cell phone or a guilt-inducing laptop. Traffic makes you flip out. And as if stressing out over lines, health, your job, your grades, or global terrorism wasn’t enough, along comes the APS Observer with one more thing in your life to stress out over: Stress.
Anxiety • Brain • Cardiovascular Health • Emotions • Genetics • Hormones • Immune System • Optimism • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Researchers find Sept. 11 stress increases risk of heart problems
Stress and fear in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may be making Americans sicker, according to a groundbreaking new study by UC Irvine researchers. For the first time, acute stress responses to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have been linked to a 53 percent increased incidence in cardiovascular ailments over three years following Sept. 11.
9/11 • Anxiety • Cardiovascular Health • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink