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. 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
Stressed out: Work anxiety costs business big in absenteeism, turnover, low productivity
Cool. Now there is a value to stress and work anxiety. At a bill of … $300 billion a year!
Stress in the workplace is costing American business $300 billion a year.
That is the figure the American Psychological Association puts on the loss of productivity, absenteeism, turnover and increased medical costs caused by stress at work and one in four has called in sick as a result of stress. Talk about productivity.
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.
Anxiety Quiz – Diagnoise your Anxiety Degree
The US new generation of mental healing expert, Pennsylvania University’s Dr. David D ?Burns once designed a set of self-diagnosis quiz for anxiety and melancholic named Bayrns melancholia detailed list (BDC)?
This self-diagnosis table might help you to diagnose whether you have anxiety or depression fast.
Please in conform to on your mood item to grade:
Not 0 mild 1 moderate 2 serious 3
1st, sad: Whether you always do feel sad or sorrowful?
2nd, is discouraged: Whether you did feel the future is uncertain?
3rd, lack of self-respect: Whether you think oneself do not have value or thinks oneself is a loser?
4th, feels inferior: Whether you think that you lacks the ability to do what you will like or different from others?
5th, compunction: Whether you all you to is to rebuke oneself ?
6th, hesitation: Whether you do not make decision?
7th, anxious restless: In this period of time you feel angry or whether not at the tip-top condition?
8th, loses the interest to the life: You lose interest in work, family, hobby or friend?
9th, loses the motivation: Whether you feel makes that you do not have the least power unable to recover after a setback?
10th, self-impression of pitiful: Whether you did think oneself is already senile or loses the charm?
11th, appetite change: Whether you did feel has a poor appetite? Or can not help overeating and overdrinking?
12th, sleep change: Whether you do lose the vigilance? Or feels lack of physical strength all day or drowsy?
13th, loses the sexual desire: Whether you have lose the natural interest?
14th, hypochondriasis: Whether you do worry own frequently health?
15th, suicide impulse: Whether you did think that living does not have any value,?
Total score: ____
After tests, please figure out your total score and selects your melancholy degree.
Anxiety Meds or Alternative
There are as many different and diverse anxiety treatments as there are anxiety disorders. You can choose either traditional anxiety meds or you could go for an alternative route. No matter what type of alternative anxiety meds that you choose to try, talking with your doctor or a psychiatrist will let you know what’s best for you.
Besides the known remedies of Aromatherapy, there are the healing properties of herbalism, where you use fresh and or dried herbs to achieve the results that you’re looking for. Before you go out and buy different herbs though you should consult a trained and experienced herbalist. This way you’ll not only know the different herbs that you can use, you’ll be aware of their side effects, if they’re good for you to use, and the best ways to take them and the dosage amount.
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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 [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.
