Panic Disorder is hereditary, though studies of identical twins show that not everyone who inherits a predisposition for it will go on to develop symptoms. This means that heredity is not the only cause of the disorder. Childhood Circumstances and Parenting Styles can Contribute Certain childhood circumstances are usually present in people who eventually develop …
Is there something you are continually drawn to; something you have always wanted to do, but haven’t had the nerve? Maybe you thought you shouldn’t change careers and follow your lifelong desire to be a history teacher, because you didn’t know if you’d be any good at it. Maybe you thought you weren’t really talented …
Sometimes a family member/caregiver does not know what to expect from day-to-day or minute to minute when managing a loved one with dementia. Here are some tips for handling delusions and the dementia patient from a recent talk by New York neurologist Dr. Norman Pflaster. What are Delusions? People with dementia may suffer from delusions, …
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Doctors and therapists who do not specialize in panic treatment and who don’t properly explain the causes of troubling symptoms, often do not earn enough credibility to convince their Panic Disorder patients that they are not “going crazy” or dying. Feelings of dying and going crazy are symptoms, not outcomes of panic attacks. But the …
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