Category Archives: Anxiety
Anxiety frequently arises fr...
It is helpful to identify several of the most salient age-related themes, contexts, and expressions of anxiety in the later adult years. As might be ...
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Cohort in anxiety
Why is this octogenarian so preoccupied with even very small financial matters and such a penny-pincher when there seems to be no need for being ...
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Personality in anxiety
Stereotypes about “the old person” perhaps misrepresent reality most enormously with respect to personality. Attitudinal studies such as those cited earlier have found that elderly ...
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Health in anxiety
It is easier to describe an individual’s functional status, than to ascribe this status confidently to “aging.” Gerontologists have learned to be cautious in offering ...
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Race with anxiety
Hardships, deprivations, and unequal access to social resources show race-linked patterns from infancy onward. Differential risk factors can both reduce the chances of surviving into ...
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Gender in anxiety
Many sources of anxiety in the later adult years are mediated by genderrelated experiences. Survival is itself correlated with sex/gender: the differential survival gap favoring ...
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Anxiety disorders in the UK
Anxiety disorders in the UK The best estimates suggest that: one in four people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year; ...
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What are phobias?
What are phobias? Here are the key symptoms a mental health professional will look for to decide whether a fear is severe enough to be ...
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Psychoanalytic theories of a...
Psychoanalytic theories of anxiety The deeper we penetrate into the study of mental processes the more we recognize their abundance and complexity. A number of ...
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Definitions of anxiety
Definitions of anxiety Bearing in mind that there is still no single definition of anxiety, let’s now look at a couple of helpful attempts. The ...
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