By Chris Beazer
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety-related disorders every year. The disorder usually presents itself in childhood or adolescence, but can occur in adulthood as well. Anxiety also effects all people regardless of race or national origin. More information continues to emerge linking stress and heredity to potential factors that make some...
By N/A
More than 15 million people in the United States will suffer from one or more bouts of depression in 2009, according to a PBS report entitled "Depression, Out of the Shadows." While the medical community prescribes behavior-control drugs to combat the effects of depression, studies conducted by the National Institutes of Health indicate that some herbal treatments may alleviate the...
By Audrey Finkel Esposito
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a treatable developmental disorder that prevents children (and some adults) from focusing their attention. Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that involves rapid, often surprising mood swings. Both disorders have enough similarities that they are oftentimes mistaken for each other, especially in children. Symptoms for bipolar disorder and...
By John L
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, also know as ADHD and formerly as ADD, is a condition from which millions of children suffer, according to the Mayo Clinic. ADHD brings with it some problems, involving an inability to focus, that have a drastic affect on a child's schoolwork. Hyperactivity symptoms are also part of ADHD, which is why the old term for the condition, attention deficit...
By PokerPlayingDad
Cases of ADHD are not always diagnosed by a doctor or by educators before an individual matures. Sometimes, it is in the workplace where these issues are finally discovered. In the workplace, the level of competition increases, and the need to be able to focus on specific tasks becomes extremely important. Some of the areas an individual with ADHD can struggle with are areas where he is required...