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Have you ever heard of Post traumatic stress disorder? This kind of anxiety disorder can occur in any one of you, if you see or experience any kind of traumatic or shocking event like natural disasters, car accident, and rape, in your life.

Generally, these traumatic events can make you feel very frightened or helpless and requires immediate psychological treatment.

Many people, who are mainly involved in these kinds of shocking or traumatic events, have a brief period of difficulty in adjusting and also to cope up in normal life. But, with the help of certain healthy cope up methods, post traumatic stress disorder can be treated well.

In certain peculiar cases, the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder can last for several months and also for several years and becomes more worse.

Post traumatic stress disorder can disrupt your entire life, from your job to other personal and professional relationships and also interrupts in the enjoyment of your every day activities. Post traumatic stress disorder, if left untreated, can lead to several other health and also certain psychological conditions. Some of the most common conditions mainly include:

• Addiction to drugs
• Feeling of shame or despair

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Ways to manage this deadly workplace disease: Attention Deficit Disorder.

Usually men are more vulnerable to A.D.D. because they do not have the benefit of the multi-tasking skills that evolution has given women.

Traditionally, very short attention spans have been associated with children.

Until the mid 80s, psychologists and physicians believed that A.D.D. hit at the stage of transition from child to adulthood.

But, now the researchers confirmed that childhood A.D.D. can continue well into adulthood. Cell phone and e-mail, the biggest tools of multitasking are the greatest enemies of concentration. Every e-mail message popping up at the corner of your monitor is the biggest hindrance to your concentration.

When you are disturbed while doing something, your brain cannot go back seamlessly to the job it was doing before the interruption.

For some of you, A.D.D. is an inbuilt condition. They have very short attention spans as with children. Responsibilities increase as they grow up, but concentration will not become better. This condition finally leads to unfinished jobs, raising panic attacks and stress. All of these finally cause psychological disorder.

Panic disorder is a serious condition of anxiety disorder that takes place at any time and any where irrespective of sex or race of a person.

Mostly teens and persons of early adulthood are more prone to this panic disorder.

It has been estimated that almost 75% of the total population gets affected with this panic attack.

How can you identify panic attack?

A panic attack is a sudden or abrupt surge of fear that usually occurs without any warning sign or symptom or any particular reason. It is far more than a strong feeling of being stressed out that can be experienced by most of you. Certain symptoms of these kinds of panic attacks include:

1. Feeling difficulty in breathing, you can feel as if you are not able to get enough air to breathe.
2. You can experience terror which is almost paralyzing.
3. Hot flashes or sudden chills.
4. You can also experience tingling feeling in your fingers and toes.

Is it mind, body or both which causes panic disorder?

Body: There can be a genetic tendency of anxiety disorder in some persons. Some of you can have a family history of panic disorder or some other emotional disorders like depression [Depression Treatment].

People with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) may be overwhelmed with persistent unappreciable thoughts or images.

If anyone in the family is suffering from OCD, then there is a 25% chance of having this disorder in one of the immediate family members.

Unwanted thoughts are obsession and repetitive behavior is compulsion. So, both combined together is obsessive compulsive disorder. Obsession and compulsion are related to each other.

For example, if individuals are obsessed by the dirt and germs, they will develop the compulsion of washing their hands repeatedly.

Afraid of social embarrassment makes people to comb their hair in front of mirror repeatedly and sometimes they cannot even move away from the mirror if they caught by the mirror.

Another example of obsessive compulsive disorder is if people are obsessive about intruder, it will become compulsive for them to lock and relock their doors many more times before going to bed.

If a woman is obsessed with a fear that she might contaminate her baby, she will never touch her baby.

They constantly check the things repeatedly before feeling secure enough to go to bed such as: Is the stove off? Is the alarm set? Is the door locked? Is the television turned off? Etc.

World Down Syndrome Day is on march 21st. Organizations of Down Syndrome(DS), through out the world, organize and take part in events to raise awareness of Down syndrome in public.

Creating awareness on  this day gives great chance to raise funds to support children and adults with Down Syndrome.

Down syndrome is also called as Trisomy 21 and this occurs when you have a 3rd and extra 21st chromosome. That is why the day and month were chosen for Down syndrome that corresponds with 21 and Trisomy respectively.

Every year on Down Syndrome day, parents and families of new babies with Down Syndrome reach out to their communities and organizations provide information to pediatricians, obstetricians, local hospitals, parents and public health nurses.

The information booklets are distributed to the public libraries, schools and city halls as well as to newspapers and magazines.

People with DS live at home and are attached to schools, workforce and community. People with DS closely resemble parents and their family. But, each individual is unique with personality, appearance and set of abilities.

Each state has Down syndrome association, which provides vital support and information. You can also take part of their fund and awareness raising programs for Down Syndrome patients to make their world a little better.

Bipolar disorder is not a single disorder; it is a combination of mood disorders.

If an individual experiences one or more episodes of abnormally elevated moods, it is referred clinically as mania.

A person who experiences manic episode will commonly experience depressive episodes or mixed episodes called manic depression.

Manic depression is also called as bipolar affective disorder or bipolar disorder. Individual who experiences bipolar disorder will have mood swings, which can last from several weeks to months and more.

In that, if they are depressive, they have feelings of intense depression and despair. If they are manic, they have feelings of extreme happiness and despair. If they have mixed feelings, they experience depressed mood with restlessness and overactivity of manic episode.

Approximately 1 in 100 adults has manic depression at any point in their life. It is generally seen during teenage period. Men and women are equally affected and this manic depression is not seen after the age 40.

How many types of bipolar disorders (manic depression) are being seen in individuals?

People with manic depression experience mood swings from high episodes of mania to low episodes of depression, but in most cases, people with manic depression experience episodes of depression than episodes of mania.

Are you worried about feeling anxious without any particular reason? Then it could be due to generalized anxiety disorder.

It is very common for every one to feel anxious at particular situation in daily life.

In fact, this anxiety can help you to respond to certain appropriate dangers. But, if you feel anxious without any reason, then it can be some thing unusual.

How to differentiate between normal anxiety and anxiety disorder?

The most important primary manifestations of anxiety disorder include fear and worry. However, the disorder of anxiety is mainly characterized with certain physical and emotional symptoms.

Some of these symptoms are mentioned here, which can help you to identify anxiety disorder.

Emotional or psychological manifestations:

• Self consciousness and felling of insecurity
• Confusion in taking decisions
• Feeling restless
• Fear that you are dying
• Nervousness and behavior problems

Physical manifestations:

• Chest pain
• Hot flashes or chills
• Shortness of breath
• Dizziness
• Frequent urination or diarrhea

These are some of the important symptoms which are commonly seen in persons who have anxiety disorder.

Factors inter-related with anxiety disorder:

Many complex factors can contribute towards the development of anxiety disorder. Some of the most important factors include:

A person with panic attack can experience the intense episodes of anxiety or fear that occur suddenly.

The episodes of panic attack can last from minutes to hours. The attack can occur quite frequently or once in a while.

People with anxiety and panic attacks lose their control emotionally and physically.

There is no known cause or trigger for panic attack. But, sufferers of panic attack can get treatment to treat their condition.

Mostly people with this attack are referred to psychologists or placed on prescription medications.

Along with these, there are new options available for panic attack sufferers.

There are coping techniques that you can do to survive from panic attacks. Breathing exercise is one of them. While deep breathing, think about relaxing thoughts. Gradual muscle relaxation is also another method to come out from this attack. The last and the most important one is staying positive.

Curing panic attack naturally with new inventory technique:

Panic away is the natural cure for panic attack. With panic away, people learn to extinguish the cause of their panic attacks. In this technique, panic can be treated by breaking the cycle of anxiety.

Anxiety disorder is one of the most common diseases among mental illnesses.

Anxiety disorders include everything from phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and panic disorder to post-traumatic stress disorder.

These conditions greatly differ from one another.

Several reasons can cause the anxiety disorder.

They can be environmental and biological factors like biochemical changes in the brain, genetics and other traumatic life events.

To prevent these conditions, you need to follow proper steps.

Anxiety disorder can cause heart related events:

According to the new research, depression and anxiety are risk factors for major heart related events in patients with stable coronary artery disease. Researchers discovered that both anxiety and depression are more common in cardiac patients than general people.

Anxiety disorder in children:

Studies stated that anxiety is a normal reaction to stress. Sometimes children can be affected by the anxiety of their parents. The research stated that the child who has an anxious parent is 3-7 times more likely to build anxiety disorder than the child of a parent who is not anxious.

Cognitive behavioral therapy can greatly help people to change their everyday behaviors and thoughts by approaching through self-awareness and making plans for change.

The vitamin D deficiency that makes the bones weak now has been associated with an increased risk of heart disease in a recent study.

Lack of vitamin D is associated with increased heart disease risk and it is particularly seen among individuals with high blood pressure.

Low levels of vitamin D are highly prevalent in United States, especially in places where sunshine is less. 20 to 30 percent of the population present in those places has moderate to severe deficiency of vitamin D.

It has not been proven yet that lack of vitamin D actually causes increased risk of cardiovascular disease. It requires a large randomized trial to show whether correcting vitamin D deficiency will result in a reduction in heart disease risk.

For more research information, visit: http://www.sciencedaily.com