Tag: anxiety
member name: Michael C. Miller, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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October 29, 2007 12:32 PM EDT --
The people I’ve met who get panic attacks describe them as very powerful — and very negative — experiences: Sudden, intense surges of anxiety are accompanied by uncomfortable physical . . .
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June 02, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
I have a neighbor who prides himself on having the perfect lawn. He spends hours each week tending, mowing, and weed-whacking his yard. I get tired just watching him.
Perfectionism can be exhausting. . . .
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January 21, 2008 11:06 AM EST --
Recently I had coffee with a friend who is worried about her 86-year-old mother, who lives in the Midwest. "Lately it seems like she's worried about everything," my friend told me. "She . . .
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February 25, 2008 01:47 PM EST --
It's become a tradition in my family. After we drop our kids at camp near Augusta, Maine, we stop in Freeport on our drive back to Boston.
Freeport is the home of clothing retailer L.L. Bean, which . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:06 AM EDT --
Like many people, I enjoy a late-night snack—especially when the Boston Red Sox are playing a late game or if I'm burning the midnight oil to get some work done. The occasional late-night snack . . .
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May 19, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
I've written here in the past about the use of meditation for reducing anxiety and as part of comprehensive treatment for depression. Another technique that may help some people is hypnosis.
One . . .
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July 28, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
Although bipolar disorder is diagnosed largely on the basis of whether a manic or hypomanic episode has occurred, the condition’s most painful burden may be depression and disability.
Full recovery . . .
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June 16, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
Positive psychology is sometimes dismissed as so much happy talk. But in some circumstances, these techniques provide a much-needed balance to psychiatry's traditional focus on psychic pain and pathology. . . .
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July 14, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
As the treatment arsenal for bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder has expanded in recent years, some experts have become concerned that lithium — a mainstay of treatment since FDA approval in 1970 . . .
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April 07, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
In January 2008, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study that seemed to question the effectiveness of antidepressants. Since then, I've been fielding occasional questions from . . .
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August 26, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
When it comes to panic disorder, medication alone is rarely sufficient to provide relief from symptoms.
Part of the challenge in treating panic disorder is that it has many manifestations and varied . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
I know some people who can’t wait to get to the gym, but I am not one of them. I do go, though, because exercise seems to have endless health benefits.
And lately I’ve been more and more convinced . . .
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October 15, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
A report in the British journal Nature provides vivid evidence that other animal species suffer from the psychological symptoms of traumatic stress that we like to think of as human disorders.
Elephants, . . .
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November 19, 2007 10:08 AM EST --
One of my coworkers is going through an emotionally difficult time right now. Her son, who is 18 months old, wails inconsolably whenever she and her husband leave him with a babysitter. They feel awful—but . . .
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December 17, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
Many patients are interested in learning about alternativeapproaches to treating their anxiety. One technique they ask about is musclerelaxation. This technique, sometimes enhanced by biofeedback, is . . .
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January 04, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
About 20% of people who make an appointment with a mental health professional never show up, and another 20% never come for a second visit. Forty percent of patients who start taking an antidepressant . . .
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October 01, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
Over the decades that I have been practicing psychiatry, no diagnosis has been more difficult to pin down than post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). For some mental health professionals, making a diagnosis . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:16 AM EDT --
I have often heard people describe eating as a way to deal with anxiety, depression, or stress. It's a pretty common experience. Researchers are interested to find out exactly how common it is, and . . .
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November 05, 2007 09:38 AM EST --
Two of my psychiatrist friends, who have very different research interests, share a practice in common. One is an internationally respected biological psychiatrist who studies how the brain reacts during . . .
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November 12, 2007 10:02 AM EST --
A friend called me the other day because he was worried about his teenage daughter, who’d begun plucking out some of her hair. Was it just a passing bad habit, he wondered, or should he worry it . . .
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