Panic disorder is characterized by un-expected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms that may include chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness or abdominal distress....

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by 6 months or more of chronic, exaggerated worry and tension that is unfounded or much more severe than the normal anxiety most people experience....

Anxiety disorders, however, are illnesses that fill people's lives with overwhelming anxiety and fear that are chronic, unremitting, and can grow progressively worse....

Do you experience sudden episodes of intense and overwhelming fear that seem to come on for no apparent reason?...

Anxiety rouses you to action. It gears you up to face a threatening situation. It makes you study harder for that exam, and keeps you on your toes when you're making a speech. In general, it helps you cope....

I recently delved into Zen in order to break this cycle and experience life in its entirety; not embracing just the good bits and avoiding the bad bits because there will be times when such things are out of our control....

First let's make a distinction between worrying and concern. Concern is acknowledging a problem and taking steps to correct it. Worrying is going around in circles, fretting, not thinking, or taking action....

Unfortunately, people with anxiety disorders tend to use their attributes to scare themselves. They overintellectualize, overanalyze, and use their creativity to envision the worst possible scenarios. Used in a negative way, our wonderful traits can make us sick....

Talking about intimacy and sexuality is never easy, from the time we are youngsters until we are very old and wise. Sex is part of our lives, and when combined with Alzheimer's Disease, it can problematic....

One of the greatest impacts on quality of life for families and their loved ones with Alzheimer's Disease is the presence of agitation behavior in the middle stages of the disease process. More than half of patients with Alzheimer's Disease exhibit some type of "agitation" behavior over the course of a year....