Mental illness encompasses a heterogenous group of disorders ranging from exaggerated response to stressful events to altered mentation from specific neurologic or genetic abnormalities.
The symptoms of TS generally appear before the individual is 18 years old. TS can affect people of all ethnic groups; males are affected 3 to 4 times more often than females.
Avoidant personality disorder is characterized by pervasive feelings of inadequacy, social inhibition, and extreme sensitivity to what other people think.
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affects along with marked impulsivity.
Do you wipe off the doorknobs in your home each time someone touches them? Or do you consistently go to great lengths to avoid walking on sidewalk cracks?
All most everybody worries about what will happen in the future. The prospect of not knowing if something good or bad will happen to you in the near future can produce a lot of fear and anxiety.
Over compulsive disorder affects people in many different ways - at least 2% of the population are being driven to despair trying to cope with this disorder.
In some cases of anxiety and depression a patient clings to hope by taking anti-depressant drugs in hope that it is the answer to their prayers in relieving them of their symptoms.
If you are like me forgetting familiar people and things can be a painful and baffling aspect of aging. There is however both good and bad news with memory loss.
What gives a person suffering from over compulsive disorder (OCD) the right to chastise others e.g. children/husband and wife's on their behaviour when we as a patient have no control over our own.
No one ever has a problem dealing with happiness or feeling good. When joy comes into our life we experience it freely, but when sadness or grief is present, we often struggle with them.
Despite major advances in understanding stress, depression and anxiety, most sufferers are still being told four myths about the root cause of their problem.