College Students: Why Are We Seeing an Increase in Psychological Disorders?
What could explain why the numbers associated with psychological disorders among college students have risen so greatly over recent years?
Eating Disorders: The Hidden Problem of College Students
For a freshman student, the start of college may cause some phase of life adjustment anxiety. Focusing their energy on their eating and weight can often be a way to gain the control that they can’t find in other aspects of their lives.
Infidelity: Has it Increased Since the Internet?
Have the Internet and cyber-space made it easier than ever to cheat within a marriage or a relationship?
Separation Anxiety and School Refusal
The beginning of a new school year can be a threat to some children, resulting in elevated anxiety levels and possible school-related disorders, such as separation anxiety disorder and school refusal.
What is Religious OCD?
People with religious OCD strongly believe in and fear punishment from a divine being or deity.
How to Overcome Extreme Fear of Doctors
Not knowing what will happen at the doctor can frighten some anxious patients
Superstitious Behavior Psychology
When rituals need to be repeated over and over to avoid perceived negative outcomes and this pattern begins to rule someone’s life, it causes more anxiety than it relieves. At this point, the superstitious behavior psychology can be, and often is, a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
HOCD
Straight people who suffer from HOCD spend countless hours wondering if they could really be gay or could suddenly become gay.
Anxiety and Sexual Disorders
Researchers have seen connections in those suffering from panic disorder, anxiety disorder, and social anxiety disorder who also have noted an increase in impairment of sexual function, arousal and desire, and a decrease in satisfaction and enjoyment of sex.
Postpartum Depression and Anxiety – How to Overcome Them
Postpartum depression and anxiety can affect nearly 15% of new mothers at some point during the first year after giving birth. Postpartum depression can be a very serious mood disorder and is different than having the “baby blues.”