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Bridge tragedy could increase anxiety in some people

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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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Anti-anxiety drug as medical treatment for stuttering

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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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Drug Ice and alcohol anxiety

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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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Judgemental May Increase Risk of Anxiety

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I have always thought that being judgemental or picky will result in being more high stress and suffer greater emotional fluctations. Looks like I am right.
Recent study at the University of Vermont’s Department of Psychology shows that among 154 young adults at their early 20s, there is a significant association between certain mindfulness skills and high levels of both negative affectivity (also known as neuroticism) and anxiety sensitivity.
Basically, the more anxiety a person experiences, the less they will be able to practice mindfulness skills.  In general, mindfulness is a key element of Eastern spiritual practices such as Buddhism. More research is needed to show a definite link, but intuitive wisdom suggests that mindfulness skills lead to a healthier, happier emotional state.

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Brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety

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According to a recent national survey on 42 subjects from a pool of 1,099 undergraduate college students using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), brain activity reflects differences in types of anxiety. 

By using psychological tests to categorize them as “high anxious apprehension,” “high anxious arousal,” or neither, the anxious apprehension (verbal rumination, worry)  group exhibited enhanced left-brain activity and the anxious arousal (intense fear, panic, or both) group had heightened activity in the right brain.

What this signifies is that

“This is biological validation of the proposal of the psychological differentiation of types of anxiety,” Miller said. “Whether you want to treat anxiety psychologically or biologically – and we know that either type of intervention affects both the psychology and the biology of the person – these findings are a reminder that you might want to assess people carefully before you embark on a particular type of treatment.”

Their work appears this month online in Psychophysiology.
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Depression, Fatigue and Anxiety

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If you suffers from depression, take more rest in order to have higher work productivity.
According to the American Psychiatric Association’s 160th Annual Meeting in San Diego, depression coupled with fatigue, sleep problems or anxiety causes greater significant drop in productivity than just depression along. In addition, the study also showed that co-occurring fatigue or sleep problems significantly increased depression-related healthcare cost
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