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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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Talking to Your Doctor for D...
Talking to Your DoctorHow well you and your doctor talk to each other is one of the most important parts of getting good health care. ...
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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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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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