ANXIETY IN THE WORKPLACE
Getting stressed out at work is natural - it happens to everyone. But there's a difference between being stressed out by your job and having an anxiety disorder. Stress can trigger a latent disorder, or heighten the anxiety already being experienced by a sufferer. This is bad news for people with anxiety disorders, as well as for employers dealing with lost productivity, absenteeism, poor performance and increased healthcare costs when employees are ill........
THURSDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A small area of the brain nestled inside the cerebral cortex might explain why smoking is such a hard habit to break..................
Images of health and disability
WHO/Bernard Franck
A young man, who has been affected by polio, enjoying the beach in Benguela, Angola.
This striking photo gallery shows how people with different disabilities and health conditions live and work. The photographs make us challenge the very meaning of health. They are a reminder that many people experience some degree of disability at some point in their life........
Modern Love
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage
By AMY SUTHERLAND
Published: June 25, 2006
AS I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband paces behind me, irritated. "Have you seen my keys?" he snarls, then huffs out a loud sigh and stomps from the room with our dog, Dixie, at his heels, anxious over her favorite human's upset.
In the past I would have been right behind Dixie. I would have turned off the faucet and joined the hunt while trying to soothe my husband with bromides like, "Don't worry, they'll turn up." But that only made him angrier, and a simple case of missing keys soon would become a full-blown angst-ridden drama starring the two of us and our poor nervous dog..........
bethp's story
As a child and a teenager I was super confident most of the time although I always hated reading aloud in class or doing presentations- would always get very shakey and try to get out of it.
From the age of 13/14 I started being a bit of a nightmare, took alot of drugs, drank alot, slept around, ran away from home ( although I have a lovely family) vague suicide attempts and missed alot of school.
I left school at 16 ( had justed started 6th form college) as, as I can see now the beginnings of social anxiety were starting to surface, I became pretty withdrawn and self conscious but went and got a job.
At around 18 I started taking days off work as I would feel very anxious, and eventually lost that job as really my behaviour was getting out of control and was phoning in sick ALOT!
After that, I was very agarophobic for about 3 months, really couldn't even go to the shop for cigarettes or anything, eventually got to the doctors who put me on anti- depressants and I managed to get another job as a waitress. During that time I came off my medication, and although I stopped smoking pot I continued to drink heavily and was very promiscuous. AFter a couple of years I started getting panic attacks at work, this was after I had an abortion and I was in a very bad place emotionally. Although my employers were pretty understanding they had to fire me in the end as I just couldn't do my job if I got there atall.
After losing that job I had another severe agaro phase lasting about 3/4 months which eased off and although I was still very anxious I could leave the house, and yet again desended into drunken debauchery till I met my ex who I lived with for 3 years, I really wasn't looking after myself well in anyway throughout that time save a few episodes of back on meds and a couple of therapy sessions. It also was an unhealthy relationship ( he had a silly temper) and eventually I ended up here, back with my parents and am finally looking after myself better and have a very supportive and lovely new fella.
The way I look at my anxiety has changed considerably over the years and I feel like now I am starting to accept it and deal with it, sorry for rambling, it's just hard to stop once you start!
We're fat. We smoke. Drink too much. Don't exercise enough. And our stress levels are off the charts.
We're killing ourselves, and we know it. And yet we carry on -- overeating, lighting up, slumping in front of the television and throwing back another beer -- inspiring some of the greatest thinkers in the worlds of genomics, neuroscience, biochemistry and evolutionary psychology to ponder the Big Mac of medical questions:
Why is it so hard for people to change?