Anxiety Disorders: Symptoms, Risks, and Treatments Feeling anxious can be normal in a stressful situation. It’s a way our body tells us to prepare for danger and to be alert to a threatening event, known as a “fight or flight”...
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) GAD is a mental health condition characterized by persistent and excessive worry about various events or activities in one’s life. Unlike the occasional stress or concern that everyone experiences, GAD involves a constant state of apprehension...
Health Anxiety Therapy and How to Manage Health Anxiety Are you very concerned about your health? Being worried and cautious about your health is normal and even necessary. It ensures that you pay close attention to changes in your body...
Panic Disorder and Its Management Individuals who experience panic disorder go through frequent unexpected panic attacks and fear about when the next attack will occur. This leads to them actively avoiding places, events, or behaviours that they believe are triggers...
Panic Attacks at night: Nocturnal Panic Attacks (NPAs) When you are woken up from sleep at night by the feeling of intense fear, terror, or discomfort this can be described as a nocturnal panic attack, or panic attack at night....
Separation Anxiety Disorder exhibits as an excessive fear or anxiety when away from one’s major attachment figure (e.g. parents), resulting in emotional distress, sleep difficulties, or rumination. While it is normal for infants and toddlers to show distress when separated...
Social Anxiety Disorder involves experiencing intense fear or anxiety when in social situations. This fear usually centres around worries that one will be judged by others, and can manifest as early as 13 years old. Social Anxiety Therapy is one...
What is Agoraphobia? Agoraphobia therapy Agoraphobia is a psychological condition that goes beyond a simple fear of open spaces. The word itself derives from the Greek term “agora,” which historically described a public gathering place. In the modern clinical sense,...
Conduct Disorder is a persistent pattern of behaviour in children and adolescents in which they repeatedly violate the rights of others or disregard fundamental social rules. These behaviour patterns manifest across multiple settings—home, school, and social environments—and significantly impair a...