Remove Anxiety disorders Remove Events Remove Trauma and the brain
article thumbnail

Exploring the Connection Between Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

Exploring the Connection Between Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders As a parent, caregiver, or even a concerned family member, have you ever wondered whether the mood swings you witness in your loved one could be more than just emotional highs and lows?

article thumbnail

Test Anxiety – How to Calm Your Nerves Before a Big Test

Clear Behavioral Health

You might be thinking that test anxiety is normal, although pre-test nerves are common; however, clinical testing anxiety is a psychological condition. People who experience generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have a greater chance of developing testing anxiety. Related: What is Anxiety? have GAD [2].

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Intellectual Developmental Disorder and Mental Health

Child Mind Intitute

As many as 50 percent of kids with intellectual developmental disorder (often referred to as intellectual disability, intellectual and developmental disability, or IDD) are estimated to also have a mental health disorder, with anxiety and depression being the most common. What is intellectual developmental disorder?

article thumbnail

Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder a Mental Illness?

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Most people have heard of PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, but not everyone understands what it really is. The truth is, PTSD can affect anyone who has gone through something deeply distressing, and yes, it is classified as a mental health disorder. The most important is its origin: trauma. Yes, it is.

article thumbnail

10 Signs of High-Functioning Anxiety in Women You Shouldn’t Ignore

Lightwork

Understanding High-Functioning Anxiety in Women High-functioning anxiety presents a unique paradox in women’s mental health. Understanding high-functioning anxiety represents the first step toward finding balance between achievement and emotional well-being.

article thumbnail

Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Mad in America

It is now common knowledge that there is no reliable biological test, or biomarker, for any of the hundreds of disorders in the DSM-5. However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics.

article thumbnail

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Challenging the biological model of depression feels like a game of whack-a-mole: as soon as you put one theory to bed, another one sprouts up.