Symptoms and treatments of anxiety

There are several different anxiety disorders, each with a distinct set of symptoms. However, common symptoms can include: sweating dizziness trembling increased or irregular heartbeat back pain restlessness and fatigue muscle tension being easily startled recurring and ongoing feelings of worry, with or without known stressors avoidance of certain situations that may cause worry, often […]

What causes anxiety?

Anxiety disorders have a complicated network of causes, including: environmental factors, such as stress from a personal relationship, job, school, finances, traumatic event, or even a shortage of oxygen in high-altitude areas genetics medical factors, such as the side effects of medicine, symptoms of a condition, or stress from a serious underlying medical condition brain […]

Anxiety

Anxiety is a general term for several disorders that cause nervousness, fear, apprehension, and worrying. These disorders affect how we feel and behave and can cause physical symptoms. Mild anxiety is vague and unsettling, while severe anxiety can seriously affect day-to-day living. Anxiety disorders affect 40 million people in the United States (U.S.). It is the most common […]

The Psychology of Hate

Recently, several members of a group calling itself “Respect the Flag” were sentenced to prison for terrorizing guests at the birthday party of an 8-year-old African-American girl in Georgia. Pointing a shotgun, they yelled racial slurs and death threats at guests, including children. It wasn’t an isolated incident. According to a recent study(link is external), there […]

The Art of Happiness

Ah, happiness, that elusive state. Philosophers, theologians, psychologists, even economists, have long sought to define it, and since the 1990s, a whole branch of psychology—positive psychology—has been dedicated to pinning it down and propagating it. More, more than simply positive mood, happiness is a state of well-being that encompasses living a good life—that is, with a […]

Why Are Families So Important?

You’ve likely heard the saying “family first” more often than you can count. Why is this saying so popular? Why are families so important that we’ve all heard and probably said this phrase before? In the most basic sense, the family is essential because it sustains society while fulfilling God’s purposes. Parents provide the basic physical necessities […]

What is Romantic love?

Love is involuntary. Brain science tells us it’s a drive like thirst. It’s a craving for a specific person. It’s normal, natural to “lose control” in the early stage of romance. Love, like thirst, will make you do strange things, But knowledge is power. It’s a natural addiction and treating it like an addiction can help you. […]