Divorce, and the period of separation of spouses that usually precedes it, can be extremely stressful for those involved. In fact, probably the most common way that researchers have sought to understand the effects of divorce is the divorce-stress-adjustment model, which Paul Amato (2000) used to review the research literature on the subject. Although Amato […]
How Being Married Affects Your Anxiety
To paraphrase the Russian novelist Tolstoy, there are a million ways in which a marriage can go wrong and only one in which it can go right (actually, the quotation from Anna Karenina was “all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” but the implication is the same). Problems […]
How Being Single Affects Your Anxiety and Mental Health
Many adults now choose to remain single. Some researchers refer to this group as the “never married”, to differentiate them from single after divorce. Johnston and Eklund (1984) noted three decades ago that much attention had been placed on married and divorced adults, with journals devoted to their study, but single adults have received less […]
14 Things To Look For To See If Your Child Has Anxiety
Children can suffer from anxiety. However, most children are not able to articulate what is troubling them or what they are worried/fearful about. The following are 14 things to look for to see if your child has anxiety (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000): Disruptive or agitated behaviour Children may respond to […]
Top 13 Things People are OCD Over (Or 14- skip 13, if you are OCD about that)
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder marked by obsessions (recurring intrusive thoughts) and compulsions (repetitive behaviours). The compulsions are meant to relieve the anxiety generated by the obsessions. Although the anxiety triggered by the obsessions are temporarily reduced by the compulsions, the anxiety in the long run becomes worse, in the form of […]
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