All posts on this topic: Anxiety disorder

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Klaus Bernhardt

Depression and Anxiety Are Not Caused by a Serotonin Deficiency

For decades, we’ve been told that anxiety and depression are caused by a “chemical imbalance”—a lack of serotonin in the brain. But this explanation simply isn’t true. Leading psychiatrists and researchers now agree that this theory is outdated and unsupported by science.
Tim Kendall, a respected psychiatrist and advisor to the British government, puts it bluntly: “I’ve reviewed the data, and it’s garbage.” Studies as far back as the 1970s found no significant difference in serotonin levels between people with depression and those without. What’s more, attempts to artificially lower serotonin in healthy individuals failed to create depressive symptoms—and some even reported feeling better.

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Depression due to protein deficiency
Klaus Bernhardt

Depression due to protein deficiency: When nutrition makes people mentally ill

Can depression be caused only by protein deficiency? Yes, this is actually possible! Learn now what you should pay attention to in the future. Every human being needs protein. This is because the essential amino acids it contains are the raw material from which we produce all the messenger substances in our brain. If we don’t eat enough protein at every meal, our brains can’t function properly. We become anxious, unfocused, tired and sooner or later depressed.

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Daniela Bernhardt

Testing and Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are more than just occasional worries or stress. They are profound, persistent conditions that can severely interfere with daily life. People with an anxiety disorder experience intense, excessive and persistent worry and anxiety in relation to situations that are actually quite commonplace.

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Daniela Bernhardt

Test and Diagnosis of a Panic Attack

Panic attacks are very frightening experiences that occur suddenly and cause intense anxiety with considerable physical discomfort. They affect many people worldwide and can have a significant impact on life. It is therefore crucial to diagnose panic attacks correctly and ensure effective treatment.

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Daniela Bernhardt

Help and treatment for panic attacks

Panic attacks affect millions of people worldwide. They are more than just a temporary attack of anxiety and can have a significant impact on daily life. This article looks at what helps and what doesn’t help with panic attacks to provide valuable information and support to sufferers and their families.

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Daniela Bernhardt

What Causes Panic Attack Disorder? Understanding Triggers and Misconceptions

Anyone who has panic attacks understandably wants to get rid of them quickly. However, this is only possible if all triggers are recognized and eliminated. Unfortunately, this happens far too rarely, which is why those affected often suffer from anxiety and panic for much longer than necessary. Even in therapy, only a fraction of the possible causes are usually treated.

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Klaus Bernhardt

Social anxiety disorder: the real causes often remain untreated

In the case of social anxiety disorder, sufferers are usually advised to undergo cognitive behavioral therapy, often supported by the use of psychotropic drugs. But for thousands of people, this therapy does not work as desired. After more than 12 years of working with countless sufferers, I can tell you with certainty that social anxiety disorder can be overcome. But only if the real causes are recognized and treated correctly. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens far too rarely with traditional therapies.

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Klaus Bernhardt

Treating a panic disorder: you should avoid these mistakes

Patients with panic disorder are usually advised to take a combination of medication and behavioral therapy. However, this treatment does not work for many people. Panic disorders can only be permanently overcome if all the causes of this anxiety disorder are identified and treated accordingly. As a number of triggers are barely considered as part of traditional therapy, many sufferers often suffer for longer than necessary.

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Online Therapy with Proven Effectiveness – Immediate Help for:

52 episodes with almost 7 hours of video material

No risk: The methods of this online therapy for self-help have been successfully used in clinics in Europe for over seven years. Over 250,000 people have already managed to lead lives without fear and panic using this method.

The new online version of self-therapy offered here has been thoroughly tested by psychiatrists and neuroscientists and found to be highly effective. Since the publication of this online therapy, over 16,000 former anxiety patients have given us feedback that they have managed to free themselves from their anxiety disorder using only these 52 videos.