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This really sounds bad. 40,000 local kids suffer from anxiety disorder and in the city of Metro Vancouver alone.

More seriously, 80% of the children suffer in silence and may carry the anxiety disorder condition into adult where treatment may be more difficult.

The reason behind the silence?  An anxiety disorder “used to be thought of as a sign of weakness,”Robichaud continued, “but it’s actually a sign of strength to go about your daily routine. It takes a lot of work to be anxious. It’s physically exhausting.”

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Here is a simple receipe to mitigate anxiety, via courtesy of Hilton Head Island.  It consists of hot oil and salt, your typical cooking items.

Maybe pouring a vat of warm oil onto your forehead or floating in 10 inches of water mixed with 1,000 pounds of salt don’t intuitively seem like ways to unwind. But on the island, shirodhara massage and floatation therapy are two offbeat treatments now being offered to those feeling frayed by the regular rhythm of life.

Via Islandpacket

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Good news. Research from Macquarie University suggests certain self-help treatments for social anxiety disorder may be just as effective as more traditional, therapist only treatments.

This is critical as mental health conditions such as anxiety growing in prevalence across the globe and there is need to have more innovative, cost-effective and accessible treatments.

Recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the study investigated the efficacy of pure self-help through written materials for severe social phobia and self-help augmented by five group sessions with a therapist. These conditions were compared with a waiting-list control and standard, therapist-led group therapy.

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Following the recent tragedy in Minnesota, mental health experts began speculating that anxious people could develop full-blown bridge phobia, also known as [tag-tec]gephyrophobia[/tag-tec]. Perhaps due to Murphy’s Law and by the repeat broadcast of the incident by media, these people will be on a bridge and they have a panic attack that’s not related to the bridge, and after, they avoid bridges.

Bridge phobia, or an intense fear of another situation or object, is similar to panic disorder, a medical condition characterized by a brief, intense episode of high-level anxiety or terror, according to Johnston. Up to 12 percent, or 6.3 million Americans, suffer from specific phobias, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health.

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Originally developed as an anti-anxiety drug, Pagoclone is becoming a more common treatment for stuttering. It blocks a chemical called dopamine in the brain. Research has suggested that people who stutter have an excess of dopamine in the area of the brain that controls speech timing.

It is estimated that over 3 million Americans stutter. Stuttering affects individuals of all ages but occurs most frequently in young children between the ages of 2 and 6 who are developing language.

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If you are one of those party goers who likes bingeing on party drug ice and alcohol, be ready to experience much greater levels of general anxiety. 
At Macquarie University, Brain researchers found that young rats fed a combination of alcohol and methamphetamine displayed much greater levels of general anxiety in the long term than rats that consumed either drug alone.

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