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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 all medical professionals have previously overlooked. But no matter how many doctor’s visits are made, the diagnosis ...
- Topic: Hypochondria
There is now clear medical evidence that cervical spine problems can lead to anxiety disorders in the long term. This blog article from the Institute for Modern Psychotherapy in Berlin looks at what measures can help immediately and what you should avoid.
- Topic: Psychosomatics
Many people with panic disorder think their recurring panic attacks are a symptom of illness. In reality, it's quite the opposite. Panic attacks are nothing more—and nothing less—than the warning system of our subconscious. Comparable to a smoke detector: very unpleasant when it goes off but absolutely vital for survival.
What's more important: climbing a ladder to turn off the annoying beeping of the smoke detector or extinguishing the fire that triggered the alarm? Correct—the fire must be extinguished! The same applies to panic attacks.
- Topic: Panic attack
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 Leading psychiatrists and researchers now agree that this theory is outdated and unsupported by science.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.
International guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders recommends a combination of antidepressants and psychotherapeutic methods, such as cognitive behavioral therapy.
- Topic: Medication against anxiety
Did you know that neuroscientists worldwide agree that the real boss in our brain isn’t our conscious mind? It’s the subconscious, which controls about 90% of our brain's activities. And while this “boss” communicates with us, it doesn’t always do so in ways we immediately understand.
The subconscious speaks through intuition—your gut feeling.
- Topic: Panic attack
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