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5 Strategies for Reducing Stress at Work Even if you love your job, work can be a significant source of stress in your life. This stress can cause symptoms such as headaches, anxiety, trouble focusing, fatigue, and sleep problems. In some cases, this stress leads to changes in behavior, such as starting to use tobacco, withdrawing from social activities, and changes in eating. While…

How to Manage Family Stress It doesn’t take an expert to know that managing family life can prove incredibly stressful. Between shuttling kids off to several activities, keeping a clean home, managing finances, and getting food on the table, family stress can add up quickly. It’s no wonder that 79 percent of American adults report feeling stressed sometimes or frequently throughout the day. If…

Can a Therapist Help Me with Stress? Even the most experienced professionals have difficulty defining stress. In some ways, stress is the way that the body responds to certain triggers, particularly those that require an immediate reaction. However, if you have a mentally or emotionally taxing life, you know that stress can take place in the mind as well. Although most people use the…

How to Tell if Your Child is Having a Panic Attack As a parent, few things are scarier or more stressful than seeing your child sick. When that illness is mental, parents can feel completely helpless. To make matters worse, mental illness sometimes looks different in children and adolescents than in adults. So, it can be hard for parents to recognize what’s happening with their…

5 Myths About Panic Attacks Only 36.9 percent of the 40 million American adults with anxiety disorders seek treatment for their conditions. A lack of treatment can cause emotional symptoms to worsen and even hurt their physical health. Several factors may keep people with panic attacks from seeking treatment. For example, lack of access to affordable treatment can be a problem. Another issue is the…

How to Calm Yourself During a Panic Attack When you have a panic attack, you may find that your heart races, your breathing gets shallow, and you believe that something awful is coming your way. In the middle of these spells, it’s difficult to feel like anything can help. However, if you practice a few strategies now, you can be ready to stop panic…

How Untreated Anxiety Affects Physical Health Each year, nearly 1 in 5 American adults suffers from an anxiety disorder. This type of disorder can include panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and specific phobias. Although anxiety disorders remain highly treatable with therapy and/or medication, fewer than 40 percent of patients with these illnesses seek professional help. Unfortunately, people with anxiety who do not get…

What Patients Should Know Before Taking Antidepressants When it comes to treatments for depression, there is a lot of misinformation out there. Unfortunately, these myths sometimes keep people from getting the help they need or cause unnecessary anxiety when they do decide to get help. For example, many patients feel extremely nervous about starting antidepressants. While patients should use caution when taking all medication,…

Clinically Edited & Approved by: Deena Altman, PA-C How to Tell if Your Child or Teen May Have Depression An adolescent dies from suicide every 100 minutes, making it the third leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 24. Even after teens and children overcome depression, it can have long-lasting effects on their brains. Untreated depression can cause the brain to deteriorate,…

Postpartum Depression: Unique Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatments The weeks following labor and delivery often bring about intense emotions, even when all parties remain healthy and everything goes as planned. While some low moods, crying, and confusion are normal, some new mothers experience debilitating emotions in the postpartum period. When new parents experience postpartum depression, it can mimic major depression and other mood disorders in…