Anxiety Disorders

What Is Anger?

If you are a human being, you have experienced anger. Anger is not a bad emotion, it is how one manages anger feelings that make anger either bad or good. Do all animals, including human beings, feel anger? We don’t know much about other animals. They can not tell us how they feel. But we do acknowledge that other animals have aggressive behavior.

Meditation: All Roads Lead To Rome…
By Steve Ross, MA

There have been a number of studies over the years about the health benefits of Transcendental Meditation (TM). To read a recent one, click here. However, I would like to suggest that these positive results are not the sole propriety of TM. One does not need to belong to any group or subscribe to any particular set of beliefs to receive them. I worked with TM and other forms of meditation for over a decade, on a regular, disciplined basis. My conclusion is that any form of meditation, spiritually oriented or not, will show similar results if done regularly for the same amount of time.

Voluteers in a medical experiment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland involving the drug Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) reported profound experiences that enhanced feelings of well-being over time. Reseachers see a possible application of psilocybin in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.

Providing psychological treatments for children under ten with anxiety disorders is problematic for health professionals, as the approaches that are most successful with teenagers and adults are difficult to apply to the very young.

Acupuncture is effective treatment of fibromyalgia, especially for symptoms of fatigue and anxiety, according to the results of a prospective, partially blinded, randomized study reported in the June, 2006 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings.