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What is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder which develops after experiencing an exceptionally threatening or catastrophic event, e.g. natural disaster, serious accident, witnessing violent death of others, or being a victim of violent crime. The major symptoms are intrusive memory of the ...
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Generalized anxiety disorder and phobic disorders are characterized by highly distressing and excessive worry and anticipation of impending danger. Apart from psychological symptoms, there are physiological symptoms, e.g. fast heart beat, fast breathing etc. Some level of anxiety is experienced by e ...
What is Panic Disorder?
Panic attack occurs when a person, without danger or significant stressor, develops the anxiety symptoms, such as increased heart rate, sweating, trembling hands, chest tightness, abdominal pain and loose stool, numbness in hands and feet, feeling cold or hot, and headache etc. These symptoms come v ...
What is Early Psychosis?
Early psychosis is an abnormal mental condition that is often accompanied with delusions, hallucinations and disorganised speech. The thoughts, emotions and feelings of people suffering from early psychosis are frequently out of touch with reality. If early psychosis is identified in its initial sta ...
What is Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) is one of the anxiety disorders. One in fifty people would have the chance of suffering from OCD in their lifetime and the ratio of male to female patients is equal. Many children have mild ‘obsessive’ behaviours such as tidying up their toys very care ...
