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Eileen Bailey

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Anxiety and Medications During Pregnancy

  You have anxiety and you just found out you are pregnant, or maybe you are thinking of becoming pregnant. What do you do? Do you continue taking anxiety medications? What are the risks of possible birth defects? Is there a risk to you or your baby if you stop taking medication? What do you need to know?     Pregnancy is a... Read moreChevron
posted 04/19/2011, comments (0)|
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Famous People with Anxiety Disorders: Celebrities with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

According to The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) about 40 million American adults who are 18 and older have an anxiety disorder. This means that a little over 18 percent of the American adult population suffers from some type of anxiety disorder. That is a lot of people! It seems nobody is immune from the ill effects related to... Read moreChevron
posted 01/10/2011, comments (0)|
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Jerry Kennard

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Explaining OCD: A Cognitive Approach

In a previous Sharepost I wrote about the ways in which obsessions and compulsions relate. In this post I'm focusing on one of the leading models to help explain why some people develop OCD while others don't.   Over the past couple of decades a huge amount of research has been undertaken into why people with OCD interpret their thoughts... Read moreChevron
posted 10/25/2010, comments (0)|
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Deep Brain Stimulation for OCD

A recent Dutch study indicated improvement in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms. The study involved 16 patients with severe OCD. The patients experienced severe symptoms for approximately 16 hours per day, were incapciptated and unable to work.   Electrodes were implanted into a section of the brain and activated on and off for... Read moreChevron
posted 10/21/2010, comments (0)|
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How Obsessions and Compulsions Relate

Obsessions are uncontrollable and intrusive thoughts. The process itself is passive in the sense that the person is unable to exercise control over these intrusive thoughts. It is estimated that around 75% of thoughts involve doubts, thinking 34%, 26% fears, 17% impulses, images 7%. In terms of recurring themes around 46% involve dirt, disease,... Read moreChevron
posted 10/13/2010, comments (0)|
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