The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a $1 million collaborative study by the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute and Columbia University Medical Center to determine whether the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique can help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevent...
Thanks to those of you who visited Organized Wisdom and nominated Postpartum Progress as a top resource for information on postpartum depression. We now have 14 nominations and are leading the pack. You can still nominate Postpartum Progress or any other site you feel is a great resource on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders! I nominated PSI and the MGH Center for Women's Mental Health. Also, remember...
This is a list of blogs and a few websites on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders that I believe are helpful to women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. My criteria: blogs that are focused on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders blogs with a track record of active posting blogs that are fully supportive of the women who suffer, supportive of all types of treatments for these illnesses and...
Anxiety and stress destroy humans. Anxiety disorders not only can cost you your health but it can take the best of you without even asking for it. Depression creates gaps in relationships between people. When one is depressed he shuts away from everybody and moves away for a distance. It is hard to establish a [...]
No pain, no gain applies to happiness, too, according to new research published online this week in the Journal of Happiness Studies. People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem or learning to drive, may experience stress in the moment, but experience greater happiness on a daily basis and longer term, the study suggests.
They found that the prevalence of all common mental disorders was 27.2%, and PTSD symptoms, 4.8%. There were no substantial differences in the prevalence of PTSD symptoms between US and UK troops deployed to Iraq, which had been previously found. In UK troops, the most common diagnoses were alcohol abuse (18.0%) and depression/anxiety (13.5%).
By Pam Herstiel What Causes Fear? The way fear works in different people is curious. For some people it is so overbearing that it effects there everyday life, and can genuinely inhibit their quality of life. But Why? Some people will focus on the fear, which lead to more problems. But what are they? Among other things fear can cause Panic Attacks and anxiety disorders. When things get this far the...
This week I have updated the list of specialized treatment programs at hospitals and universities around the country for women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, which can be found here. The University of Louisville Women's Mental Health Program, the University of Michigan Perinatal Mood Disorders Program, the Women's Health Consortium program in NYC, the Columbia University Women's Program,...
There are increasingly precise molecular insights into ways that stress exposure leads to fear and through which fear extinction resolves these fear states. Extinction is generally regarded as new inhibitory learning, but where the inhibition originates from remains to be determined. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the primary inhibitory chemical messenger in the brain, seems to be very important to...
One of the people I met at the PSI conference this summer was Gabrielle Kaufman, one of the PSI coordinators for Southern California. One of the things we discussed was dance therapy. I had never heard of dance therapy, and was intrigued to find out more about what it is and how it might be used to help women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Gabrielle was kind enough to write the following...
Much has been written about MS and depression, but very little about MS and anxiety disorders, specifically panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. I found a fascinating article in the journal Multiple Sclerosis , Anxiety disorders and their clinical correlates in multiple sclerosis patients by M Korostil and A Feinstein (Multiple Sclerosis 2007; 13: 67-72),...
By Jonathan Park Stress encounters are part of our everyday lives. Stressors are unavoidable. The negativity that stress brings with it is because of the way we react to the stressors. An endocrinologist named Hans Selye proposed that there are two types of stress. There is good stress or "eustress", and there is bad stress or "distress". Eustress is felt when something good is...
By Sandy Margarono EasyCalm review EasyCalm Video Coaching Review The EasyCalm video coaching series, designed by Jon Mercer's Jon Mercer, is designed to inform the subscribed about anxiety disorders. I had to download the program which is a series of internet based videos. Jon Mercer himself took me through each stage of the program within these videos. Jon Mercer designed the EasyCalm video coaching...
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Under the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, a refugee is a person who has left the country of their nationality ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion’ and is unable or unwilling to return. In the UK, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied...
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