Tag: Anxiety
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Chronic Illness and Mental Health: Recognizing Depression
Chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes may make you more likely to have or develop a mental health condition. It is common to feel sad or discouraged after having a heart attack, receiving a cancer diagnosis, or when trying to manage a chronic condition such as pain. You may be facing new limits…
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Panic Disorder: When Fear Overwhelms
Do you sometimes have sudden attacks of anxiety and overwhelming fear that last for several minutes? Maybe your heart pounds, you sweat, and you feel like you cant breathe or think clearly. Do these attacks occur at unpredictable times with no apparent trigger, causing you to worry about the possibility of having another one at…
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What Is Depression?
Depression affects how feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working. Depression is a condition in which a person feels discouraged, sad, hopeless, unmotivated, or uninterested in life in general for more than two weeks and when the feelings interfere with daily activities. Different Types Of Depression Two common forms of…
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Are You a Worrier?
Do you often find yourself worrying about everyday issues for no reason? Are you always waiting for disaster to strike or excessively worried about things such as health, money, family, work, or school? If so, you MAY have a type of anxiety weakness or disorder called Generalized Anxiety Disorder. It can make daily life feel like a…