People tend to assume that children are carefree and living in the best times of their lives.  They have no worries, no reason to fret, nothing to be concerned about other than where to hang out after school.  Unfortunately, this is not always the case in today’s modern world and cases of anxiety disorder in children are on the rise.

Are you feeling anxious? For some people, controlling anxiety is a daily necessity. Stressful situations cause the heart to pound, the palms to sweat, and breathing to become more intense. They begin to feel panicky and scared. It can easily consume your days and years without even a hesitation. Anxiety can harm a person not only emotionally, but physically. Most people believe that the only cure for controlling anxiety is medication. That thought is absolutely not true and could save people quite a bit of grief.

Reading the latest ADHD article, I was surprised on how far treatment of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder has come since I was a kid. You see, I had childhood ADHD, and I can tell you first hand that, back then, there was only one option for treatment. That was to medicate. Oh sure, sometimes there was counseling used for ADD, but every  ADHD article that I read at the time said that the only solution was to medicate. Fortunately, it is not that way anymore, according to every article on ADHD I’ve read recently.

What does it means when your loved one is diagnosis with general anxiety disorder? The symptoms of a general anxiety disorder are insufferable—for both the one experiencing the general anxiety disorder and those associating with the one experiencing it. 

General Anxiety Disorder, impacting approximately 500,000 people in the U. S. alone, is also called Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and consists of the following symptoms, which I will include in a scenario:

The first thing I think of when I hear the phrase borderline personality disorder treatment is how after my friend had been, finally, diagnosed with BPD or bi-polar disorder, she had to take a daily handful of pills.  This was to me excessive, especially compared to my one pill a day for a similar but different disorder—similar in that it manifested in the mental realms and different because it was less about anger than it was or is about order.

Zoloft, also known as sertraline, is an antidepressant that is in the group of antidepressants known selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. Zoloft is used to treat a variety of psychological disorders including, major depressive disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and premenstrual disphoric disorder (PMDD). These disorders are caused by chemical imbalances within the brain, and Zoloft as well as other antidepressants in this class work to regulate the imbalance to alleviate symptoms. As with other antidepressants, side effects of Zoloft cannot be ruled out and are different in each individual patient.