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Mental Healths Importance in Todays World - A Psychologists Perspective
A growing recognition of the fact that "mental health is fundamental to a person’s overall health, indispensable to personal well-being and instrumental to leading a balanced and productive life" likely contributes to the fact that about 15% of our country’s population now use some form of mental health services in any given year. Nonetheless, despite effective treatments, according to Dr. Satcher’s 1999 Surgeon General's Mental Health report, "N Read More...
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Information On Eating Disorders
Psychologists qualify an eating disorder as something of a mental illness that affects a person’s eating habits in such a way that drastically disturbs the physical health of that person. An in-depth analysis by psychologists and psychiatrists list the types of eating disorders as Anorexia Nervosa, Beriberi, Bulimia Nervosa, Hyperphagia, Kleine-Levin Syndrome, Rumination, Binge Eating Disorder, Orthorexia, and Pica. Among these, Anorexia Nervosa Read More...
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Mental Health - What Are Anxiety Disorders?
Everyone experiences anxiety at one time or another. It is a normal reaction to stress. It can "help" a person deal with tense situations in the office, to study harder for an exam or keep focused on important speeches and lectures. Anxiety helps one to cope. If it becomes excessive, or an irrational dread of everyday situations, it becomes a disabling disorder classified as an "anxiety disorder."
There are five major types of anxiety disorde Read More...
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