How to overcome Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)
The good news first. You are not helpless in the face of social anxiety. For a good 5 years now, there has been a therapy with which it is possible to reduce social anxiety more and more, even without confrontation and without medication. What that is and what people with social anxiety disorder can do so that the first successes…
Get rid of panic attacks quickly and permanently
Even if many sufferers can hardly imagine this in their distress: They are not helplessly at the mercy of panic attacks. For the past 5 years, there has been a therapy that has shown above-average success in treating panic attacks. This blog article from the Institute for Modern Psychotherapy in Berlin deals with the therapy and what anxiety patients should…
Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) better
Even if many sufferers can hardly imagine this in their distress: They are not helplessly at the mercy of panic attacks. For the past 5 years, there has been a therapy that has shown above-average success in treating panic attacks. This blog article from the Institute for Modern Psychotherapy in Berlin deals with the therapy and what anxiety patients should…
Hypochondria: How to overcome fears of illness
In hypochondriacal disorder, sufferers are often convinced that they are suffering from a serious illness that just hasn’t been discovered yet, such as a brain tumor. The more pronounced the fear of illness, the more often it happens that hypochondriacs constantly visit new doctors. The driving force behind this is the hope that someone will finally discover the disease that…
Emetophobia: New therapy brings hope to sufferers
For about 5 years now, there has been a method with which emetophobics can literally unlearn the fear of vomiting. We are aware that most sufferers react extremely skeptically to such a statement. After all, many have been fighting their disease for years, yet true freedom from fear seems a long way off. We also know how much emetophobics suffer…
Agoraphobia and Panic Attacks: These Therapies help
While agoraphobia without panic attacks is often still treated without the use of psychotropic drugs, antidepressants and/or strong tranquilizers are often used for agoraphobia with panic attacks. However, drug treatment of anxiety disorders is not without risks. Because such pharmacotherapy can be both addictive and lead to severe side effects. Fortunately, a new form of therapy has been available for…
Effexor XR (Venlafaxine) – what you should know about it
You have been prescribed EFFEXOR XR and are unsure what to make of this drug. Your concern is not unfounded, because this antidepressant does have dangerous downsides. Depending on whether you’ve been prescribed the drug for depression or anxiety disorder, there are a few things you should definitely be aware of:
Self-help for anxiety disorders: What helps and what does not help?
The good news first. For some years now, there has been a self-therapy for anxiety disorders that has an above-average success rate. What kind of therapy this is and whether it is also suitable in your case, we will come to that in a moment. The bad news is that you should invest at least 6 hours of your time…