Category Archives: Anxiety
Acute Anxiety
The history of humanity is full of moments where human lives have been jeopardized by war. revolution, earthquakes, or other upheavals. Fear of death is ...
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Risk Factors for Depression
The fact that depression is more common among women than men has been thoroughlydocumented, but it is important to go beyond this basic epidemiologic finding ...
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THE LEVELS OF DISORDERS
There are distinct degrees of severity in mental disorders, but the traditional distinction between neurosis and psychosis is today a controversial issue. Pinsker and Spitzer ...
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What is depression?
What is depression?Everyone feels down or sad sometimes, but these feelings usually pass after a few days.When you havedepression, you have trouble with daily life ...
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Can Liberate Energy and Redu...
Here is one of the more significant emergent areas in gerontology. The basic thesis is that people often must “plow under” some of their creative ...
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Loss of Efficacy, Control, a...
Early in life one must often work to achieve efficacy, control, and confidence. “I can accomplish; I can manage; I can do” are self-judgments that ...
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The Cognition-Anxiety Link
Many associations are found between cognition and anxiety at all age levels. This linkage may be especially salient among elderly adults. For example, memory lapses ...
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Elderly people tend to be an...
Elderly people tend to be anxious about dying, not death The three themes already mentioned all converge here. Dying and death are realistic concerns in ...
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Normative transitions and un...
Normative transitions and uncertainties tend to keep people on an anxious footing. Again, the basic phenomenon here is one that can be experienced by people ...
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There is often a reduction i...
There is often a reduction in the resources available to cope with anxiety. Many people deal with stress, threats, and conflicts by moving away from ...
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