Social Anxiety Disorder Tips

Play Therapy uses a psychotherapeutic approach to help children between the age of 3 and 12 to explore their lives and help them express their repressed thoughts, emotions, and feelings through play. Sometimes play therapy is used for adults as well. Therapeutic play typically takes place in a comfortable and safe playroom, where the least amount of rules are forced on the child, the child is encouraged to express him/herself freely, and it allows the therapist to observe a child s decisions, ch...more

The words 'stress and 'anxiety' are often used interchangeably, but bear different meanings in medical terms. Stress is caused by particular situations or events in one's life that makes one feel frustrated, angry, worried or even anxious. The stress response is different for each individual such that the same event can often elicit disparate responses. For example:

Public speaking excites some but terrifies others;

Pressure from deadlines increases productivity in some but ren...more

You may face stress and anxiety in life because of innumerable reasons, starting from job-related stress to personal stress. Stress is capable of causing great distress, which may hamper your daily activities, your thinking and your entire life in general. It is essential for you to identify the cause of stress and anxiety and then adopt ways to cope with it.

Here are some important tips for busting stress and anxiety:

Keep active: Exercise does not eliminate stress, but it hel...more

Over 85 percent of the women experience the trauma of Premenstrual syndrome which haunts them for those few days of every month. Women undergo physical as well as mental or emotional disturbances like mood swings, anxiety, bloating of the belly as well as cramps in the abdomen.

There are certain lifestyles changes along with natural remedies which can ensure the betterment of the PMS

Avoid the smoke: If you are smoking, you are not only increasing the PMS issue but also the c...more

Midlife crisis may start at a transitional chapter in a person s life- when the person leaves behind youth and enters an elderly phase. This usually happens in the 40s or 50s.

What causes a Midlife Crisis?

Contrary to popular belief, it is not just men who have to live through a midlife crisis but women are just as likely to be its victims as men are. For men, their insecurity may stem from being seen as failures in their respective fields and they focus on flaunting their ach...more

A certain psychiatric condition which causes a person to be functionally impaired in social and occupational settings is known as Impulse Control Disorder. Most of you are granted with the ability to think before you act but it isn't the case for people suffering from such a condition. People diagnosed with this condition are not able to withstand the urge to do something detrimental to themselves or other people.

This condition is similar to other disorders such as kleptomania, compuls...more

Pain is an all-too-familiar problem and perhaps one of the most common reasons that people visit a physician. Alleviating pain, unfortunately, is not always easy. Chronic pain caused by a sprain or injury is more complex, as it lasts for weeks to years. Furthermore, this type of intense pain causes feelings like hopelessness, anger, anxiety and sadness. To treat chronic pain effectively, one needs to address all three aspects - emotional, physical and psychological.

Psychological treat...more

While the world has always been faced with large-scale tragedies, we have to admit that we now live in a space where these are thrown at us (mostly in the face) without too much control about it. These could terrorist attacks, the stampede at religious places, floods, earthquakes, derailed trains, retained hostages, landslides, etc. The list is growing too long and is only set to increase. Whether we like it or not, each of these events is covered in minute detail and flashed as news and there i...more

In today s times, depression has spread within the society like an epidemic. People with depression wake up feeling low, spend their day drowning in anxiety and end the day without any hopes for the future. Although the symptoms may be different, children are not safe from the clutches of depression either. It is more difficult for them to express their anxiety and helplessness due to their lack of understanding of the concept of depression.

Five percent of children suffer from depressi...more

Often children are seen as resilient and capable of bouncing back from almost any situation. Traumatic experiences can however lead to long-lasting and severe effects that might stay even in their adult lives if they aren t dealt with. Trauma might result from any such thing that can disrupt their safety and leave them vulnerable. These include verbal, sexual or physical abuse, an unstable environment, domestic violence, separation from parents, bullying, severe illness, or invasive medical proc...more