Panic of 1837

Galileo once said, “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” Great teachers can help students achieve great things, and they can guide them, but teachers cannot sit there and truly teach a student anything. There has to be passion and desire to learn. Sometimes teachers have to tend to students individually to help the student succeed. According to WritingCommons.org, “Conferences are a time for you, as a student, to ask your instructor specific,…

If you’re squeamish, turn back. This isn’t a good place for you to be. If not, well, it’s possible that I’m going to change that. So listen up and listen quickly. It’ll be over before you know it. I used to love popping zits. There were days where all I could do was stand in front of my bathroom mirror and pop what pimples dared to show on my skin. The problem was, as far as my face goes, I have almost none there. But when it came to my body, there were quite a few problem areas I could attack.…

A 27-year-old electrician is describing symptoms that do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the anxiety disorders diagnostic class of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013); therefore, a diagnosis of other specified anxiety disorder is appropriate. However, it should be noted that the symptoms described are highly characteristic of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and meet 5 out of the 6 criteria…

school, I would have at least one panic attack a day and would have to step out of class for long periods of time to calm down. My anxiety was worse on the days I had presentations; my presentation grades often suffered because I was too anxious to speak clearly in front of large groups. When I was fourteen, I was not sure I wanted to exist anymore because my anxiety got really bad and I felt like I had nobody there for me. I did not like crying and having panic attacks every day because I often…

Fear can be a lot of things. It is defined differently from one person to another. The fear of falling, the fear of being alone. Fear is a wide concept that contains so many meanings that you cannot count them. Fear has the ability to keep us from doing something we want- but at the same time, it can also give us the capacity to cross our boundaries. The story “The Swimmer” follows significant themes such as fear, personal development, and unknown territory. The story “The Swimmer” by S. J…

Everybody experiences difficult times throughout their entire lives. Whether they appear as physically demanding tasks, challenging mental decisions, or saddening emotional tragedies, these events challenge our persistency and adaptability. Different people handle these situations differently; some might become stuck from moving on, while others will quickly take actions to move on. In "Welcome to Hiroshima" by Mary Jo Salter, the speaker realizes how a community of misfortunate people moved on…

disorder after depression and substance abuse and affects about 10 million Americans. This phobia is an anxiety disorder and individuals with this disorder experience intense distress in public settings. These individuals experience high levels of panic in seemingly “normal” social situations1. These social situations include public speaking, using public restrooms, or even having a conversation with another individual. Individuals with social anxiety fear being “embarrassed or humiliated in…

Before any public or social performance any person will be affected in different ways depending of their confidence and capacity of managing their emotions. Every dancer needs to learn new choreographies in short periods of time to be able to perform in front of an audience. It is completely normal that any person experience stress or anxiety before a performance. These emotions affect the confidence of the person and could lead to affecting the quality of their performance. Dancers need to…

Recovery Fundamentally, to ensure Georgia’s condition is addressed adequately to mitigate her symptoms and to reach personal recovery, she firstly must recognise she is having trouble coping and must make the decision to seek help (Commonwealth of Australia 2010; Meadows 2012, p. 60). This concept of recovery places emphasis on personal wellbeing, individual choice, empowerment and self-management through the holistic notion of living well with an ongoing mental illness, having hope and setting…

Introduction Most everyone experiences stress at least one point in their lives or another. In fact, in a national study done by the NPR (National Public Radio) found that out of the two thousand five hundred people who participated, more than one in four said that they felt a great deal of stress in the past month, and half of the people surveyed reported having a very stressing time in the past year alone (Hensley & Hurt, 2014). With stress being a universal problem that everyone deals with…