Panic of 1907

Have you ever been faced with a danger so fierce that your mind became clouded with fear? What are some thoughts you may have if you were in a situation like this? Imagine being trapped in a place with no visible way out, succumbed to intimidating surroundings. In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, the central idea is fear. Bram Stoker demonstrates this idea by using the literary devices of conflict and point of view. Conflict is when drama is added into the story. Point of view is the perspective that the…

CBT is a psychotherapy treatment that is hands on, short term, and goal oriented. According to Stewart and Chambless, this technique works well with individuals suffering from anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and panic disorders (2009). Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the aspect of how the emotions one may have negative emotions about certain topics, events, or even cognitions will cause an occurrence of anxiety or any other related disorder. The goal of…

Fearnot-Narrative Fear can ruin your life. Fear is just a mentality. Fear can mean different things to people, it can be the difference between someone not exactly loving spiders, and not hating them and someone having a meltdown every time they see a spider. For some people, a fear can be so stressful and life-crippling that they’ll try anything in their power to avoid their fear even if it means staying at home for days at a time. Fear has the power to prevent people from experiencing the…

woman who struggles with intense anxiety. She self-mediates with alcohol. She also struggles with panic attacks. These panic attacks are shown in her everyday life. Warner’s anxiety leads to multiple panic attacks. Warner shows many symptoms and could be diagnosable to these three diseases. Warner has experienced anxiety many times in this novel. She talks about how every time she saw the word panic attack it made her anxious. She also described how she experienced every symptom on the medical…

 Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
 affects 6.8 million adults, or 3.1% of the U.S. population.
Women are twice as likely to be affected as men.  Panic Disorder
afftects 6 million, 2.7%
Women are twice as likely to be affected as men. 
Very high comorbidity rate with major depression. 

  Social Anxiety Disorder
affects15 million, 6.8%
Equally common among men and women, typically beginning around…

drastically, forcing me to work on it. First, let me tell you just what anxiety is. Anxiety is a nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks. It is basically a feeling of worry and panic people get about something they’re stressing about. It's an incredibly common disorder, lots…

My Story: Writing about Mental Illness Heals Me I find it hard to contain my story in just one thousand-odd words. It seems that there could be a whole tome the size of the DSM to chronicle all the mental illness-tinged happenings in the life of Mary L. Sukala. Out of 19 years of existence, I had a few short years at the beginning that weren’t touched by some extent of personal issues. But there is one sunny side to the unpleasantness: the thousands of pieces of writing that have butterflied out…

This case study is about a man who goes by the name of Captain Hook and he is dealing with the loss of his hand in a sword incident, and having to accept that there was no chance of it being reattached because it had been fed to an animal. This man has a long ongoing feud with a young man by the name of Peter Pan that lives in the same area, a place called “Neverland”. These two men have had constant altercations ongoing for many many years, dating back a long time. This young man ultimately…

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) deals with an illogical link from the obsession to the compulsion, or ritual. The obsession is the source of the individual’s fears, such as germs or death, and the ritual is the practices one performs, such as washing one’s hands or blinking a certain number of times, as an alleviation of their obsession. The link may or may not make sense to the individual; with the latter case, the ritual is mainly performed just in case something bad was to happen. Those…

Like a cloud in the sky, anxiety is looming. Anxiety can be triggered by several causes, and the weather oftentimes can be this trigger by affecting people’s decisions and even attitudes. During the early 1800s in England, human population was rapidly increasing especially in large cities. With the increase of people, there was also a rapid increase of disease and sickness. Medicine and science were advancing during this time, but “[m]edicine in 1800 was a scary combination of chance ……