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People often ask me how I turned my health around while working 50-plus hours per week, and being on government aid. (Yes, it's poss...

If you ask families of schizophrenic patients to explain about the onset of this disorder, no two accounts will be completely the same. A li...

People wrongly relate schizophrenia symptoms with multiple or split personalities, antisocial behaviors and other mental disabilities. Other...

Schizophrenia is one of those words that everybody uses but few people actually understand. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that i...

What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is an incurable mental illness. It is taken to be a psychotic disorder that makes the person unable t...

Catatonic type schizophrenia Patients with this subtype of Schizophrenia may exhibit extremes of behavior including catatonia. Some may al...

Are you the kind of person who is always “on,” constantly driven to achieve? Or are you more of a slacker type, less motivated by the promis...

In the midst of checking on your laundry at the laundromat, a sign that reads “Now Open” catches your eye. Your curiosity is peaked. With ti...

Everyone has a friend that’s an optimist, while another is a self-proclaimed realist. I’ve always acted as the former, and called the latter...

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder that causes patients to experience extreme bouts of panic when in open areas. Often this related to a fea...

Public speaking is not an easy task for everyone. There are a number of people who find it difficult to address a crowd. Be it a topic of th...

We all live with some kind of fear buried within us. The fear of heights, water and fire find a top spot in the list of fears that exist in ...

Do you have a phobia? If you do try and imagine facing that phobia right now. It could be a spider, it may be a glove or it could be walking...

Here you can find some essential and simple fear of flying advice: Trial Run If you’re afraid of flying and have a long flight coming up...

Most common fear among people today is fear of public speaking. Imagine yourself in a situation where you have to deliver a speech in front ...

If you ask families of schizophrenic patients to explain about the onset of this disorder, no two accounts will be completely the same. A li...

Marilee, a client of mine, was commitment phobic. "I’d love to be in a loving relationship," she told me in one of our counseling ...

Fear of the dark also known as Nyctophobia is common among young children who often fear that something catastrophic may happen to them in t...

People wrongly relate schizophrenia symptoms with multiple or split personalities, antisocial behaviors and other mental disabilities. Other...

Arachnophobia can be triggered by the mere thought of a spider or even by a picture of one, in some cases. Many people who fear spiders feel...