Results for Panic Disorders

Learn how you can use a mood and anxiety chart with panic disorder to track your symptoms, triggers, and coping, to help prevent a relapse.

Patients with chronic depression and panic disorder appear to experience more side effects from antidepressants than those without panic ...

Like many mental illnesses, anxiety can be hidden. But panic attacks are often frighteningly visible.

Parenting a teenager can be even more difficult when your teen is faced with a mental health disorder. Following are some tips to help you.

Learn about the diagnostic criteria of panic disorder and how panic disorder could be diagnosed by your doctor or therapist.

Dinner and a movie? Let's do this
When you suffer from an anxiety disorder, getting through a date can seem near impossible.
It may help to know you’re not alone. An estimated 18 percent of all American adults suffer from an anxiety disorder of some kind, ranging from social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder and general anxiety. There’s a good chance you’ve gone on a date with someone who’s had a panic attack over the thought of dinner and a movie.…

Cindy Aaronson, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine, secretary of the Board of Directors for ADAA
She is a clinical researcher and practitioner specializing in generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and major depression treatment using cognitive behavior therapy
Everyone has bad days when things just aren’t going well and we just feel off. This can be in response to…

For my first podcast interview, I scored a meeting with Dr. Mark Wiederhold of the Virtual Reality Medical Center in San Diego. Before I researched him, I knew only a small bit of what they did and who they helped. I learned so much about their work talking with him. I showed up for what I thought was going to be a 20-minute interview, and got an experience that spanned almost 3 hours. Unfortunately, I could only present about 20 minutes of the…

EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprogramming) therapy is useful in treating many anxiety and panic disorders. Learn how to self-administer this therapy

Photo courtesy of Eliza Florendo
On the very first day of my very first internship, I was 20 minutes late. I stood a few blocks away from the downtown New York City office, breathing heavily, tears streaming down my face. Riding the 6 train from 77th Street to Canal Street, I had been completely fine. But now, I was having a panic attack .
I've prepared myself for this. It's just an internship. It will be fine, I kept telling myself.
But as…

Panic attacks are quite common, but just because you experience an attack doesn't mean you have a panic disorder.

Get tips for helping a spouse or partner who suffers from panic attacks due to an anxiety or panic disorder.

Generally known as alcoholism and alcohol abuse, alcohol use disorders are medical conditions that doctors can diagnose when a patient's drinking causes distress or harm. See if you recognize any of these symptoms in yourself.

Emotional Health Columnist Therese Borchard offers 10 techniques that may prime your parasympathetic nervous system and stop a panic attack.

Anxiety disorders can severely impair a person's ability to function at work, school and in social situations and can interfere with a person's relationships. There are effective treatments for anxiety.

It’s a common misconception that ADHD is only a childhood condition and does not affect individuals after adolescence.

How eating disorders affect family, friends and loved ones. Steps to take to help a family member recover. Approaching a loved one, treatment, support systems, emotions..

It can be difficult to verbalize what it's like to experience mental illness, so photographer Katie Crawford decided to show people instead of tell them....

A short, sharp look into the 10 personality disorders.

An estimated 24 million people in the U.S. have eating disorders, and they aren’t all women and girls.