Smoking is Good for Both Anxiety And Depression
Comments OffIf you believe that Smoking is Good for Both Anxiety And Depression get real. According to a new joint study held by Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), University of Bergen and King’s College in London with 60,000 participants, 5.9% have both Anxiety and Depression, known as HADS. Figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO) show [...]
Smaller babies more prone to depression, anxiety later on
Well, it might turn out that plump babies are happy babies indeed as said by popular wisdeom, according to the December 2007 issue of Biological Psychiatry. A landmark public health study has found that people who had a low birth weight are more likely to experience depression and anxiety later in life. The survey tracked more than 4,600 people born in Great Britain in 1946 for symptoms of anxiety and depression over a 40-year period which also represent an important chapter that conditions in the womb do indeed have an effect on our future development aka the “nature versus nurture†debate.
40,000 local kids suffer from anxiety disorder
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.
Stressed? Oily or salty treatments may ease that anxiety
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. [...]
Self-help Treatment For Social Anxiety Can Ease Burden
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.
Bridge tragedy could increase anxiety in some people
Following the recent tragedy in Minnesota, mental health experts began speculating that anxious people could develop full-blown bridge phobia, also known as gephyrophobia. 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.
