Since its early 20th-century beginnings, behavioral therapy has prided itself above all on being scientific. So avoiding such unquantifiable as needs, wants, and motivation, together with excursions into the unconscious and trans personal.
Instead it has concentrated on observing and analyzing behavioral and cognitive functioning, diagnosing unproductive ways of dealing with life, and instituting systematic changes to improve outcomes. Therapists discuss methods and expectations with clients; the clients' participation is negotiated, and measures to monitor effectiveness are established. Techniques used are practical and direct, including those listed below.
Counter Conditioning An undesirable response to a stimulus is replaced by one newly elicited.
Desensitization The client is relaxed deeply, then gradually he or she is exposed to an anxiety provoking situation.
Aversion Conditioning A stimulus that is attractive to the client, but would lead to undesirable results, is paired with an unpleasant event in order to break the pattern.
Role Playing The therapist demonstrates more effective behaviors in the session. The client tries these out in real-life situations.
Behavior Rehearsal The client copies the therapist's staged rehearsal of a forthcoming situation that is expected to be problematic.
Benefits
Behavioral therapy can be a useful treatment tool in an array of mental illnesses and symptoms of mental illness that involve maladaptive behavior, such as sub-stance abuse, aggressive behavior, anger management, eating disorders, phobias, and anxiety disorders. It is also used to treat organic disorders such as incontinence and insomnia by changing the behaviors that might be contributing to these disorders
Cognitive Therapy
This grew out of behavioral thinking in the 1960s and concentrates on how people's experiences are governed by their perceptions. For example, cognitive theory sees depression as the result of sad thinking, rather than believing conversely that sad thinking is the result of a state of depression.
Cognitive Restructuring Transforming a client's thinking processes so as to influence behavior and emotions.
Rational-emotive Approach Replacing irrational beliefs with rational ones.
Assumption of Responsibility Getting clients to accept that no one else "makes" them think, feel, or do anything.
Unlike traditional psychotherapy and many other forms of therapy, cognitive behavior therapy does not involve lengthy time frames or extensive investigation into past life events. Cognitive behavior therapy is a goal-oriented short-term process, predominantly focused upon the present and future. Most cognitive behavior therapy treatments range from a few weeks to a few months in duration.
Cognitive behavior therapy therapists take an active role in the treatment process, and the patient is usually expected to complete types of "homework" exercises involving reinforcement of positive patterns. Indeed, these "corrective experiences" that occur outside of the therapy sessions are an important part of treatment.
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Living With a Learning Disability as an Adult
You have to deal with a number of issues if you have a learning disability, even if that disability was diagnosed in the childhood. The issues will be different and many more in adulthood than they were in your childhood years. Hence you will have to find new ways to cope with these challenges and issues posed by the learning disability.
With advancing age you will want to be a part of many social events like marriage, parenthood etc. And your learning disability will require you to handle these challenges in way that will allow you to be a productive part of the society and even be successful in the career you choose to follow.
Learning disabilities can have an impact on your thinking process, speech, listening power, reading ability, and writing ability. These learning disabilities will also have an impact on your reasoning and computing abilities. These means your ability to handle mathematical data may be impaired, and mathematical data is something that we use even in our daily lives to quite an extent. Therefore if there is a learning disability then we need to come up with ways to compensate and adjust as responsible adults.
There will be times when you will be frustrated and angry because others will not know how to handle your learning disability. The people talking or interacting with you might become impatient when they find that you are not able to comprehend and compute what they are saying. While in college you may find that you are not able to finish assignments and all your courses in time and this may cause frustration.
You need to find the balance between having a disability and changing your goals. You do need to know your limitations but at the same time there is no reason for you not to live a full and happy life. You should be able to enjoy relationships and being a parent, even with your learning disability.
Being a parent with learning disability can be tough and stressing. To reduce the stress of being a disability parent, you can do a number of things like take care of your time and manage it properly.
One helpful technique is to keep a calendar in a prominent place such as the kitchen or other room you frequent. You can note the times and dates that your children have to be certain places. This will give you a strong visual aid and help keep you from missing appointments and pick-up times.
The next tip for taking control of your life despite the learning disability is to keep your home organized so that when you need to find something it will be there in its fixed permanent location inside your home. And in this way you can avoid getting frustrated and angry because of your inability to locate things that have been misplaced.
Even though it can be difficult, strive to remain calm and patient, even when things aren't going your way. All people have bad days at times, so try not to blame every problem on your learning disability.
With advancing age you will want to be a part of many social events like marriage, parenthood etc. And your learning disability will require you to handle these challenges in way that will allow you to be a productive part of the society and even be successful in the career you choose to follow.
Learning disabilities can have an impact on your thinking process, speech, listening power, reading ability, and writing ability. These learning disabilities will also have an impact on your reasoning and computing abilities. These means your ability to handle mathematical data may be impaired, and mathematical data is something that we use even in our daily lives to quite an extent. Therefore if there is a learning disability then we need to come up with ways to compensate and adjust as responsible adults.
There will be times when you will be frustrated and angry because others will not know how to handle your learning disability. The people talking or interacting with you might become impatient when they find that you are not able to comprehend and compute what they are saying. While in college you may find that you are not able to finish assignments and all your courses in time and this may cause frustration.
You need to find the balance between having a disability and changing your goals. You do need to know your limitations but at the same time there is no reason for you not to live a full and happy life. You should be able to enjoy relationships and being a parent, even with your learning disability.
Being a parent with learning disability can be tough and stressing. To reduce the stress of being a disability parent, you can do a number of things like take care of your time and manage it properly.
One helpful technique is to keep a calendar in a prominent place such as the kitchen or other room you frequent. You can note the times and dates that your children have to be certain places. This will give you a strong visual aid and help keep you from missing appointments and pick-up times.
The next tip for taking control of your life despite the learning disability is to keep your home organized so that when you need to find something it will be there in its fixed permanent location inside your home. And in this way you can avoid getting frustrated and angry because of your inability to locate things that have been misplaced.
Even though it can be difficult, strive to remain calm and patient, even when things aren't going your way. All people have bad days at times, so try not to blame every problem on your learning disability.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
The use of biofeedback devices in Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
Biofeedback devices measure a range of physiological variables including brain waves (Electroencephalography), muscle tension (Electromyography) and the electrical conductivity of the skin (galvanic skin response). All of these variables indicate continuums of emotional arousal. It is precisely these measurements that are used in lie-detector machines as they pick up the most subtle of physiological changes - many outside of conscious awareness. Many biofeedback devices exist and create a feedback loop for the user. Having the ability to see these readings, the user can learn to gain control over these physiological measurements by relaxing and seeing (or hearing) measurements rise and fall in response to meditation, self-hypnosis or breathing techniques.
In my private hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and NLP practice, I sometimes elect to use a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) meter with clients. Galvanic Skin Response (also called electro-dermal response) is a measure of the electrical conductivity of the skin. If I am using a GSR meter within a session, I first connect my clients to device by placing electrodes on two fingers on the same hand. After several minutes, I take an initial baseline reading. During the session, the meter readings will rise and fall in line with the emotional arousal of the client. In essence, the greater the presence of water and salt on the skin, the more conductive of electricity the skin is. Changes in sweat production in the fingertips can occur for a number of physiological reasons; however, there is a correlation between electrical conductivity of the skin and emotional arousal. A higher GSR reading tends to reflect an increase in emotional arousal (whether that emotion be anger, stress, anxiety, and startle response).
Whilst therapists develop great sensory acuity though many client hours experience, the GSR meter provides another tool to provide a clue that something is happening for the client. It is of particular use in hypnoanalysis or regression when the client has accessed an emotional memory and is experiencing it vividly. Whilst abreactions are easily spotted by a therapist, the GSR meter provides an early sign of emotional arousal that may assist the exploration of the traumatic material. The GSR reading can also be useful for testing the change in the client's emotional arousal regarding phobias before and after the change work has been completed. The client's responsiveness to hypnotic induction is clearly demonstrated by a falling reading on the GSR meter. The device can, therefore, be used to indicate when the client is deep enough into trance to make suggestions more direct. I recently conducted a hypnotherapy session and during a section about learning new skills, I mentioned being back at school to access and utilise that regressed learning state that children possess (this is a popular approach popularised by the late renowned hypnotherapist Milton Erickson). The meter rose rapidly at this moment although there were no visible changes to skin tone, breathing rate etc. At the end of the session, my client explained that she had enjoyed the experience but mention of the school had reminded her of a time when she had been bullied. Whilst not a significant event, it was nevertheless a demonstration of the usefulness of GSR meters within a therapeutic setting.
Biofeedback devices will never replace the skill of a therapist nor the importance of watching and listening but they can be a useful adjunct to the therapists toolkit in certain situations.
In my private hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and NLP practice, I sometimes elect to use a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) meter with clients. Galvanic Skin Response (also called electro-dermal response) is a measure of the electrical conductivity of the skin. If I am using a GSR meter within a session, I first connect my clients to device by placing electrodes on two fingers on the same hand. After several minutes, I take an initial baseline reading. During the session, the meter readings will rise and fall in line with the emotional arousal of the client. In essence, the greater the presence of water and salt on the skin, the more conductive of electricity the skin is. Changes in sweat production in the fingertips can occur for a number of physiological reasons; however, there is a correlation between electrical conductivity of the skin and emotional arousal. A higher GSR reading tends to reflect an increase in emotional arousal (whether that emotion be anger, stress, anxiety, and startle response).
Whilst therapists develop great sensory acuity though many client hours experience, the GSR meter provides another tool to provide a clue that something is happening for the client. It is of particular use in hypnoanalysis or regression when the client has accessed an emotional memory and is experiencing it vividly. Whilst abreactions are easily spotted by a therapist, the GSR meter provides an early sign of emotional arousal that may assist the exploration of the traumatic material. The GSR reading can also be useful for testing the change in the client's emotional arousal regarding phobias before and after the change work has been completed. The client's responsiveness to hypnotic induction is clearly demonstrated by a falling reading on the GSR meter. The device can, therefore, be used to indicate when the client is deep enough into trance to make suggestions more direct. I recently conducted a hypnotherapy session and during a section about learning new skills, I mentioned being back at school to access and utilise that regressed learning state that children possess (this is a popular approach popularised by the late renowned hypnotherapist Milton Erickson). The meter rose rapidly at this moment although there were no visible changes to skin tone, breathing rate etc. At the end of the session, my client explained that she had enjoyed the experience but mention of the school had reminded her of a time when she had been bullied. Whilst not a significant event, it was nevertheless a demonstration of the usefulness of GSR meters within a therapeutic setting.
Biofeedback devices will never replace the skill of a therapist nor the importance of watching and listening but they can be a useful adjunct to the therapists toolkit in certain situations.
What Can I Expect When Working With A Therapist/Coach Who Uses NLP?
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NLP is a multi-dimensional methodology of communication, personal development and change. It seeks to understand the dynamics and interaction of the human nervous system and mind (neuro), language and communication (linguistic) and the organisation of human thought processes and patterns (programming) to effect positive and beneficial personal change.
If we were to think of the brain as a computer running a large number of 'programs' (the brain's 'software'), NLP teaches the client to reorganise or re-pattern the way that these 'programs' are run to enable dramatic transformations and changes to take place.
The Historical Development of NLP
The development of NLP began in the 1970s when Dr. Richard Bandler & John Grinder set out to understand and model what it was that made the most effective communicators so effective.
Bandler and Grinder believed that therapists were among the most effective communicators as they were able to initiate amazing transformations within their clients apparently just through talking with them. With this in mind, they set about modelling some of the leading therapists of the day, including Fritz Perls (the founder of Gestalt therapy), Virginia Satir (a renowned family therapist) and Milton H. Erickson M.D. (the world's leading hypnotherapist at that time). In modelling the verbal and non-verbal patterns used by these most elegant and persuasive communicators and proponents of personal change, they identified a variety of patterns that could be used to replicate the astounding results they had observed in the work of these pre-eminent therapists. NLP started out, therefore, as a field to study and model the structure of excellence in communication. This approach to understanding the structure of subjective experience, language and thought processes became known as Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
The field of NLP has continued to develop and be refined over the last thirty years and is now widely used in many areas of change work and personal development. It is not simply a technology to fix problems but seeks to go far beyond that to facilitate 'generative' change i.e. to empower the client to make improvements in all areas of their life.
What can I expect from seeing a therapist or life coach trained in NLP?
A session with an NLP trained therapist or life coach will typically be quite conversational with the practitioner using a range of language skills and strong observational and listening skills to elicit precisely how the client is experiencing 'reality' and using transformational and hypnotic communication to help the client change their subjective experience of 'reality' to gain new perspectives and become aware of the wide range of possibilities and opportunities that are available.
In contrast to many approaches to therapy, NLP works on an assumption that old experiences or traumas do not have to be relived in order for change to occur. NLP believes that all experience is subjective and that we respond to our internal representation of events, not to the events themselves. Experience has a structure inside our minds so if we change the structure, we change the experience.
As human beings, we are driven by a large number of automatic 'patterns' or 'programs' that are largely outside of conscious awareness. An NLP practitioner will concentrate less on 'why' the client is experiencing the issues or problems they are experiencing and more on 'how' the client uses certain 'patterns' and 'programs' to hold the issue, problem or limiting belief in place.
So, the practitioner will focus on understanding the context of the problem (when/where does it occur... when doesn't it occur?), the process the client goes through in order to produce the problem (what triggers the problem off... when is everything OK?), and the structure of the problem within the clients mind (does the client criticise themselves inside in a harsh tonality first, get a feeling in the stomach and then perhaps make pictures in their mind of things going wrong?).
In much the same way that Bandler & Grinder modelled excellence, an NLP practitioner will seek to understand the structure of their problem and work with the client to interrupt or spoil the limiting pattern and replace it with something more useful. Also, the client will undoubtedly have experienced many positive and resourceful states that can be accessed and utilised to overwrite the previously held limiting behaviour or belief 'programs'.
Human beings are the most amazing learning machines so if we can easily learn limiting behaviours then we can equally easily learn more useful behaviours and access more resourceful emotional states. A good example of this is a phobia. People can develop debilitating phobias from a single bad experience. It is this capacity to learn rapidly that is utilised by an NLP practitioner to eliminate the phobia just as quickly as it was originally acquired.
There are a large number of powerful techniques that NLP practitioners use to change the structure of how the client subjectively experiences reality and to facilitate permanent and positive changes.
Hypnosis will often also play a part during sessions with an NLP practitioner. Hypnosis is a powerful way to ensure that learnings are integrated into the subconscious more quickly and permanently than perhaps could be achieved without hypnosis. Even if a formal trance induction does not take place during your sessions, you can be sure that a skilled NLP practitioner is communicating at many different levels to help facilitate change.
What can NLP be used for?
NLP is successfully used to overcome phobias, addictions and depression, reduce anxiety and stress, eliminate limiting beliefs, gain greater control over emotional states, improve communication, enhance performance, achieve goals, and perhaps most importantly, find ways to increase the amount of happiness and joy people have in their lives.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Anxiety Attack Therapies
Are you having trembling, sweating, contraction of the chest?. When a person feels extreme fear one can safely consider that the person is suffering from symptoms of anxiety attack. However, the same person can have different signs and symptoms during an anxiety attack and most of the symptoms do not last more than half an hour.
The panic attack symptoms are nothing new and have affected as many as 20 million people in the USA, which works out to be one in every 14 people! The panic attack symptoms could include nausea, hypertension, obsessive-compulsive behaviors and other symptoms.
Getting treatment for panic attacks can be as simple as having a great diet, relaxation or a regular exercise. Eating properly and nourishing your body the nutrients it needs is an important step to equipping your organs and blood with the enzymes it needs to perform its job. Taking the time to enjoy life is one of the verybest anxiety disorder therapies for you.
Using Therapy And Medication To Attack Your Anxiety Attack Symptoms
There are different kinds of therapies available that can help you to control panic attack symptoms. There is a treatment called behavioral therapy that can be used to help anxiety disorder sufferers to relieve their symptoms. This therapy involves altering the way the sufferer perceives or thinks certain situations. By changing the way you perceive certain situations, those particular situations can become less intimidating and help with the tendency to inflate a situation to an unmanageable level. This anxiety disorder treatment is usually used for patients who suffer from certain phobias like social phobias or social anxiety disorder.
The aim of the treatment is to expose the sufferer to the things that trigger their condition. Hopefully they will realize that the consequences for these kind ofsituations are not nearly as bad as they thought.. The behavioral aspect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a must for people desperately looking for help for anxiety. By teaching the persons breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and the desensitization process, the therapist will help the sufferer alter his behavior slowly. People who need help for anxiety due to paranoia will step-by-step be taken through several stimulated experiences, where step-by-step the fear of people will be overcome.
One sure-fire way of getting in control of the anxiety symptoms is to take medication which may help you to break the vicious cycle. Todays anxiety medication is very effective in treating anxiety attacks. Your physician will tell you which medication you should take. Remember that it normally takes several weeks for the medication to have any effect. There is a number of different and effective medications are available. These different groups of drugs are "Azapirones", "Benzodiazepines", "Tricyclic Antidepressants", "Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors", "Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors".
The most often prescribed drug type to panic attack suffers is the benzodiazepine drug type where "Alprazolam" is the most prescribed of that type of drug. However, the benzodiazepine is a medication drug class that claims it solves anxiety symptoms in 70-80 percent of the patients. One problem with this is that the pamphlet that is included together with the drug informs that benzodiazepine can CAUSE anxiety!
Beta blockers are the best drug class to control anxiety attack symptoms and are normaly prescribed to prevent rapid heartbeat, symptoms related to shaking and trembling. The beta blockers also have less side effects than any other forms of medication, but they can cause insomnia and other sleep-related issues like nightmares. In the case of anxiety panic attacks, as the beta blockers does not actually cure the panic attack, most health care professionals do not prescribe beta blockers.
Medication And Anxiety Attack Therapy Working Together
therapy can often be used together for treatment of anxiety attacks. When the patient changes the way they perceive certain things, the behavioral therapy is successful. If medication is prescribed, it can take weeks to fully work. Medications as an anxiety attack treatment help regulate certain chemicals that the brain needs. By combining the two treatments, the sufferer can effectively battle their anxiety attacks.
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The panic attack symptoms are nothing new and have affected as many as 20 million people in the USA, which works out to be one in every 14 people! The panic attack symptoms could include nausea, hypertension, obsessive-compulsive behaviors and other symptoms.
Getting treatment for panic attacks can be as simple as having a great diet, relaxation or a regular exercise. Eating properly and nourishing your body the nutrients it needs is an important step to equipping your organs and blood with the enzymes it needs to perform its job. Taking the time to enjoy life is one of the verybest anxiety disorder therapies for you.
Using Therapy And Medication To Attack Your Anxiety Attack Symptoms
There are different kinds of therapies available that can help you to control panic attack symptoms. There is a treatment called behavioral therapy that can be used to help anxiety disorder sufferers to relieve their symptoms. This therapy involves altering the way the sufferer perceives or thinks certain situations. By changing the way you perceive certain situations, those particular situations can become less intimidating and help with the tendency to inflate a situation to an unmanageable level. This anxiety disorder treatment is usually used for patients who suffer from certain phobias like social phobias or social anxiety disorder.
The aim of the treatment is to expose the sufferer to the things that trigger their condition. Hopefully they will realize that the consequences for these kind ofsituations are not nearly as bad as they thought.. The behavioral aspect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a must for people desperately looking for help for anxiety. By teaching the persons breathing exercises, relaxation techniques and the desensitization process, the therapist will help the sufferer alter his behavior slowly. People who need help for anxiety due to paranoia will step-by-step be taken through several stimulated experiences, where step-by-step the fear of people will be overcome.
One sure-fire way of getting in control of the anxiety symptoms is to take medication which may help you to break the vicious cycle. Todays anxiety medication is very effective in treating anxiety attacks. Your physician will tell you which medication you should take. Remember that it normally takes several weeks for the medication to have any effect. There is a number of different and effective medications are available. These different groups of drugs are "Azapirones", "Benzodiazepines", "Tricyclic Antidepressants", "Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors", "Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors".
The most often prescribed drug type to panic attack suffers is the benzodiazepine drug type where "Alprazolam" is the most prescribed of that type of drug. However, the benzodiazepine is a medication drug class that claims it solves anxiety symptoms in 70-80 percent of the patients. One problem with this is that the pamphlet that is included together with the drug informs that benzodiazepine can CAUSE anxiety!
Beta blockers are the best drug class to control anxiety attack symptoms and are normaly prescribed to prevent rapid heartbeat, symptoms related to shaking and trembling. The beta blockers also have less side effects than any other forms of medication, but they can cause insomnia and other sleep-related issues like nightmares. In the case of anxiety panic attacks, as the beta blockers does not actually cure the panic attack, most health care professionals do not prescribe beta blockers.
Medication And Anxiety Attack Therapy Working Together
therapy can often be used together for treatment of anxiety attacks. When the patient changes the way they perceive certain things, the behavioral therapy is successful. If medication is prescribed, it can take weeks to fully work. Medications as an anxiety attack treatment help regulate certain chemicals that the brain needs. By combining the two treatments, the sufferer can effectively battle their anxiety attacks.
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How To Deal with Fear Attacks
A great many of us are familiar with fear and stress. These are normal situations in our lives and once we pass these troubles we tend to forget about them. Unfortunately there are people who live with fear and panic their whole lives. For these people panic does not mean a reaction to a normal uncomfortable situation, instead it means wondering when you will be terrified and helpless next. This is what having panic disorder can do to you.
Fear disorder is a very bad condition. The sentiments arising from this disorder are irrational to the situation. They have a tendency to seem in response to stressful gatherings in our lives. These may be gatherings like getting married, having your first child, even switching your job. Fear disorders generally start from panic attacks. These can sometimes arise during teenage years to early adulthood.
Fear attacks and their symptoms are connected with panic disorder. The symptoms can be from a fast beating heart, dizziness, nausea, paralyzing terror, smothering sensations to a panic of death. Sometimes panic disorder can lead to various phobias, substance abuse, medical complications and in severe cases, suicide.
The sufferer of panic disorder will live in constant and persistent panic of future panic attacks reoccurring. The effect of living with panic disorder is that you tend to restrict your life in certain areas so that you avoid triggering another panic attack. While we may believe that this behavior is strange, for the panic disorder individual this sort of lifestyle tends to be a nightmare.
The effects of panic disorder ranges from mild to being socially impaired to the more severe and weakening condition of agoraphobia, where you are housebound for a big part of your life as you wish to avoid another panic attack. With panic disorder, phobias are usually the result. Here phobias do not start with regards to specific objects or gatherings in one's life. Instead going through a panic attack in different places or situations will cause the phobia to start itself.
People who may have had four or more repeated panic attacks and who think that they might have another similar bout of pure mind numbing panic should have a visit with a psychiatrist who is an specialist in anxiety and panic disorders. This is very important because the longer your condition is left untreated, the more the quality of your life will degrade.
Many therapists concur that the best ways to treat panic disorder is with cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy and in other cases a combination of these two along with prescription medication. These are all good methods to control your panic disorder, however these will remain only means and not possible cures if you do not take the initiative in seeing a trained psychiatrist as well as finishing the course of treatment.
Fear disorder is a very bad condition. The sentiments arising from this disorder are irrational to the situation. They have a tendency to seem in response to stressful gatherings in our lives. These may be gatherings like getting married, having your first child, even switching your job. Fear disorders generally start from panic attacks. These can sometimes arise during teenage years to early adulthood.
Fear attacks and their symptoms are connected with panic disorder. The symptoms can be from a fast beating heart, dizziness, nausea, paralyzing terror, smothering sensations to a panic of death. Sometimes panic disorder can lead to various phobias, substance abuse, medical complications and in severe cases, suicide.
The sufferer of panic disorder will live in constant and persistent panic of future panic attacks reoccurring. The effect of living with panic disorder is that you tend to restrict your life in certain areas so that you avoid triggering another panic attack. While we may believe that this behavior is strange, for the panic disorder individual this sort of lifestyle tends to be a nightmare.
The effects of panic disorder ranges from mild to being socially impaired to the more severe and weakening condition of agoraphobia, where you are housebound for a big part of your life as you wish to avoid another panic attack. With panic disorder, phobias are usually the result. Here phobias do not start with regards to specific objects or gatherings in one's life. Instead going through a panic attack in different places or situations will cause the phobia to start itself.
People who may have had four or more repeated panic attacks and who think that they might have another similar bout of pure mind numbing panic should have a visit with a psychiatrist who is an specialist in anxiety and panic disorders. This is very important because the longer your condition is left untreated, the more the quality of your life will degrade.
Many therapists concur that the best ways to treat panic disorder is with cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy and in other cases a combination of these two along with prescription medication. These are all good methods to control your panic disorder, however these will remain only means and not possible cures if you do not take the initiative in seeing a trained psychiatrist as well as finishing the course of treatment.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Diagnosing schizophrenia
Diagnosing schizophrenia is quite a complicated procedure involving a lot of spent time observing the person's actions and way of thinking. That person may start developing different symptoms like anxiety, confusion and starting to be suspicious on other people, mostly those that don't agree with their view of things around; they may even refuse to admit the fact that they need help. Doctors have to put a correct diagnose so they will look for both positive and negative symptoms; strange thinking, hallucinations and delusions are positive signs and apathy, emotional flatness, inability to concentrate, wanting to avoid people or to be protected are negative symptoms.
Strange thinking is also a major symptom in schizophrenic people. Their ideas might seem a bit strange to other people making little sense to them. Logical thinking may also present a problem to them. Loneliness and isolation may install because of the inability of the patient to properly talk.
Hallucinations are another problem in schizophrenia patients. According to a research, up to 4% of people hear voices but that doesn't pose a problem for them. In the case of sick persons this is an entirely different thing: they may hear voices or sounds that other people don't, this voices being sometimes familiar, friendly or critical. In the case of people diagnosed with schizophrenia the most common hallucinations are critical or unfriendly voices. This voices may have been in their mind all their life, but they have been triggered to be more aggressive by a particular event.
The delusions are the experiences or beliefs that the patient has regarding facts that don't exist.
The negative symptoms are named so because they are not noticed as easily as other signs of the illness. They might be such signs as being withdrawn, apathetic, and unable to concentrate. It is all so often that patient shows either a very chaotic behavior, much depending on people's response towards them, or a very mellow way of being sitting in a certain spot and not moving for hours. Because of this kind of actions people tend to discriminate and ignore other persons with mental problems, making them fell depressed and isolated.
As much as one in every hundred people is diagnosed with suffering of schizophrenia usually between the ages of 20 and 30. The number of men and women found with the illness is roughly the same, but the age of men tends to be smaller at the time when they are diagnosed.
Diagnosing schizophrenia is quite tricky sometimes, and that is why a second opinion should always be looked after to be shore no mistakes have been made.
Strange thinking is also a major symptom in schizophrenic people. Their ideas might seem a bit strange to other people making little sense to them. Logical thinking may also present a problem to them. Loneliness and isolation may install because of the inability of the patient to properly talk.
Hallucinations are another problem in schizophrenia patients. According to a research, up to 4% of people hear voices but that doesn't pose a problem for them. In the case of sick persons this is an entirely different thing: they may hear voices or sounds that other people don't, this voices being sometimes familiar, friendly or critical. In the case of people diagnosed with schizophrenia the most common hallucinations are critical or unfriendly voices. This voices may have been in their mind all their life, but they have been triggered to be more aggressive by a particular event.
The delusions are the experiences or beliefs that the patient has regarding facts that don't exist.
The negative symptoms are named so because they are not noticed as easily as other signs of the illness. They might be such signs as being withdrawn, apathetic, and unable to concentrate. It is all so often that patient shows either a very chaotic behavior, much depending on people's response towards them, or a very mellow way of being sitting in a certain spot and not moving for hours. Because of this kind of actions people tend to discriminate and ignore other persons with mental problems, making them fell depressed and isolated.
As much as one in every hundred people is diagnosed with suffering of schizophrenia usually between the ages of 20 and 30. The number of men and women found with the illness is roughly the same, but the age of men tends to be smaller at the time when they are diagnosed.
Diagnosing schizophrenia is quite tricky sometimes, and that is why a second opinion should always be looked after to be shore no mistakes have been made.
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