What Causes Anxiety in Intimate Relationships?
Intimate relationships can be a source of love, support, and strength. They can, however, also be a source of stress, worry, and anxiety. Relationship anxiety manifests in a number of ways: behaviors like clinginess, argumentativeness, silent treatment, and...
Understanding and Treating Cleaning-OCD
Do you know someone who spends a lot of time washing, wiping, scrubbing, polishing, and tidying up? Have you ever wondered if these behaviors could indicate a psychological disorder? The compulsion to clean is a common manifestation of obsessive-compulsive disorder...
Diet, Exercise, Sleep, and Mental Health
Maggie Seaver at Real Simple stated that, based on scientific research, we know that a complex combination of behaviors and lifestyle factors influence our mental health and overall well-being, and that physical and mental health are inherently connected. So just as...
Psychosomatic Symptoms and COVID-19
Wendy L. Patrick, JD, PhD, wrote in Psychology Today that during a pandemic, public anxiety spreads faster than the disease, as people begin to experience symptoms widely publicized as being associated with the virus. This is true even when the only “exposure” they...
Height Phobia
Are you afraid of heights? How afraid? Have you ever wondered if you have a phobia (i.e. an extreme or irrational fear)? This article will explain the difference between a normal fear and a phobia of heights (sometimes called acrophobia), and end with a review of...
Care for Your Mental Health – The Importance of Self-Care
According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, act, make choices, and relate to others. Mental health is more than the absence of a mental illness—it’s...
Different ways that holidays affect Mental Health
The holiday season often brings unwelcome guests — stress and depression. And it’s no wonder. The holidays affect Mental Health often by presenting a dizzying array of demands — cooking meals, shopping, baking, cleaning, and entertaining, to name just a few. In...
Four Common Types of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
A diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) requires the presence of obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are recurrent urges, thoughts, or images that are experienced as intrusive and upsetting. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors one does to...
Is There Such a Thing as High-Functioning Anxiety?
Would it surprise you to know that some successful individuals—such as students who always ace their tests, employees who exceed performance expectations, or business people who run very profitable companies—experience high levels of anxiety? That they feel insecure,...Contact us
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