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Personality/Anxiety/Mood Disorders Feature Writer: Lisa C. DeLuca

Struggles of personality, mood and anxiety can sometimes be seen as struggles with too much of a good thing.

  • Certain personality traits can make a person stunningly successful in his job but cause conflict in relationships;
  • humans couldn’t survive if anxiety didn’t drive them to protect themselves but too much anxiety can take the joy out of life;
  • deep sensitivity can lead to passionate creative energy, but it can cause overwhelming sadness and loss of all motivation.

Life's challenge is for people to use the traits that they have in a way that causes good results; and temper those that interfere with a satisfying life.

The related topics (below, right) contain articles to educate and motivate people who journey to balance issues of mood, personality or anxiety.

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Feature Writer Articles in Personality/Anxiety/Mood Disorders

Chronic vs. Episodic Depression and Its Cures
Knowing whether depression is chronic or episodic can help people make better treatment decisions. Fighting depression involves knowing the facts about depression cures.
Clinical Depression Statistics
Statistics on clinical depression reveal how long depression symptoms last and facts about the limits of effective treatments for depression.
Dr. Kelly Rohan Discusses SAD CBT Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is emerging as an effective treatment for SAD. But all SAD therapies, including CBT and bright light therapies, have limitations.
10,000 Lux Light Therapy vs. SAD Talk Therapy
Dr. Kelly Rohan discusses her SAD research, what cognitive therapy (CBT) for Seasonal Affective Disorder is like, and how to find a CBT therapist for winter depression.
Preventing Winter Depression – Best SAD Therapy
Dr. Kelly Rohan's new study of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) treatment shows that CBT - not light therapy - can best prevent symptoms of seasonal depression.


Contributing Articles in Personality/Anxiety/Mood Disorders

Insomnia and How to Deal With it
It will touch on both how to help deal with insomnia and also assist loved ones understand the difficulties associated with this disorder.
How Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Feels
Harvard University's Dr. Judith Herman proposed a diagnosis of C-PTSD needs to be addressed. Why haven't psychiatrists recognized it? A survivor expresses how it feels.
Anxiety Disorders and Children
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents are difficult to spot. They cannot verbalise the fact that they worry too much. They probably do not realise it themselves.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is a condition that affects millions around the world. Symptoms are varied but come back to one concept; a persistent state of worry.
How to Cope with Seasonal Affective Disorder
Ways to cope with Seasonal Affective Disorder that may help SAD sufferers alleviate symptoms and get through the long, dark winter months when symptoms are most severe.
Separation Anxiety in Adults
Physicians are beginning to recognize that separation anxiety can be a problem for adults as well as children.
Causes of Sleep Panic Attacks
Panic attacks are a nightmare. At their most intense, the person feels acutely that they are about to die. Imagine experiencing that in the dark of night.
Depression and the Stigma Surrounding it
A look inside depression and the difficulties associated with this disease, as well as touching on the importance of family support
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic delusions and hallucinations are two separate and distinct symptoms of Schizophrenia, each affecting the patient in a variety of different ways.
Stress Can Cause Weight Gain
Learning how to deal effectively with stress can help with weight loss and reduce the potential for health risks.
Keeping a Clean House; Easing Depression
How cleaning and keeping an organized home can ease depression. Methods to incorporate clean habits into daily life to help battle depression.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – An Overview
PTSD is an anxiety disorder that is caused by severe trauma in an individual's life. Symptoms of the condition can cause roadblocks, but treatments are available.
Living With a Mood Disorder – Bipolar Disorder
Being diagnosed as bipolar may make a person feel helpless. Learning about the illness makes the patient's ability to cope more powerful.
Five American Men Who Battled Depression
This article looks at five American men whose lives were influenced by episodes of severe depression.
Effexor Withdrawal Symptoms
Patients who have been prescribed Effexor or Effexor XR for depression or anxiety treatment need to be very careful when decreasing their dosage or discontinuing use.

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