Overview

Anxiety, along with depression, are the most common mental health concerns. Anxiety affects work, relationships, and parenting. It often is manifested as a physical or medical disorder.

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Specialty Areas

ADHD

ADD/ADHD is a chronic, developmental, possibly handicapping condition. It is neurochemical in nature and by far the most effective treatment is stimulant medication. However, children and
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Relationships

Opposites sometimes attract but they tend not to last. People assume that they need someone to complement them so they look for someone who has characteristics they do not possess.
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Depression

Depression occurs in both adults and children. The symptoms may be masked by alcohol or drug abuse or by physical symptomalogy.
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Anxiety

Anxiety, along with depression, are the most common mental health concerns. Anxiety affects work, relationships, and parenting. It often is manifested as a physical or medical disorder.
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Child Behavior Problems

Parents are Shepherds, Not Engineers: Strive to Enjoy Your Children as Individuals; Rather Than Trying to Redesign Them to Be Like Others;Use Immediate Feedback; Act, Don't Yak
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Stress Management

A list of 101 ways to help you manage stress. Keep it handy and refer to it when you feel things are starting to overload for you.
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Overview of Common Anxiety Disorders

Joe Peraino, Ph.D.

Panic Disorder

Sudden bursts of anxiety symptoms, feel out of control, think they are dying

Phobias (Agoraphobia, Social, Specific)

Fear of being in places where they might feel trapped or unable to get help in an emergency. Often the emergency is having a panic attack. Specific phobias may focus on animals, elements of the environment (e.g., water), certain situations (e.g., flying), blood, injections, etc. Social phobia involves a pervasive fear of scrutiny by others.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

People with GAD have chronic and pervasive anxiety about most aspects of their lives. They are hypervigilant for threats.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

PTSD is a set of symptoms, including hypervigilance, re-experiencing of the trauma, and emotional numbing, experienced by trauma survivors.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

OCD is classified as an anxiety disorder but has many distinct features. Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts that the individual feels are uncontrollable. Compulsions are ritualized behaviors that the individual feels forced to engage in. (Contrast OCD with Obessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder where the compulsive habits are not perceived by the individual as unusual or a source of concern/anxiety)

Joe Peraino, Ph.D. works as a professional coach and psychologist. Contact him at joe@joeperaino.com