ANXIETY DISORDER
A mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities
Examples of anxiety disorders include panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Symptoms include stress that’s out of proportion to the impact of the event, inability to set aside a worry, and restlessness.
Treatment includes counseling or medications, including antidepressants.
Overview from Wikipedia: (Anxiety Disorder)
Unidentified sources of stress, lasting more than six months.
World Patients: 4.5% of the total population.
Sex Ratio: M:2F
Age Onset: Ages 15-35.
Symptoms: Several different symptoms.
Causes: Unidentifiable, often a combination of genetic, environmental and psychological factors.
Medications: Several types.
Therapies: Cognitive Therapy-Identifying and reducing errors in thinking; identifying “triggers,” “mindfulness.”
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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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- Correction to: Parental Meta-Emotion Philosophy and Emotion Coaching in Families of Children and Adolescents with an Anxiety Disorderby Katherine E Hurrell on May 18, 2024
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- Can mindfulness-based interventions reduce PTSD symptoms? An umbrella reviewby Branislav Jovanovic on May 18, 2024
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating, often chronic condition with substantial cross-national lifetime prevalence. Although mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) may help reduce PTSD symptoms, efficacy results are inconsistent. Despite many systematic reviews (SRs) examining MBIs for PTSD, SR quality has been neither evaluated nor synthesized. We conducted an umbrella review to summarize and evaluate existing evidence regarding MBIs for PTSD, identifying 69 SRs (27...
- Mental health in nursing homes: The role of immigration in the long-term care workforceby Hankyung Jun on May 18, 2024
One-fourth of nursing home residents are diagnosed with anxiety disorders and approximately half live with depression. Nursing homes have long struggled with staffing shortages, and the lack of care has further heightened the risk of poor mental health. A key solution to both problems could be immigration. Prior studies have documented how immigrant labor could strengthen the long-term care workforce. We add to this picture by exploring the impact of immigrant inflows on the mental health...
- Does working memory training improve emotion regulation and reduce internalizing symptoms? A pair of three-level meta-analysesby Xiaobing Cui on May 18, 2024
CONCLUSION: WM-T could yield certain emotional effects, but only to improve explicit emotion regulation capacity and reduce anxiety symptoms. In addition, some measures could enhance the effect, such as targeting specific populations, increasing the number of training sessions (≥15) or duration (>450 minutes), using negative material, and using n-back training tasks.