It’s normal to feel your heart beat faster or your face flush before getting up to speak in front of a room of 50 people. But if you’re coming up with excuses to avoid the speaking engagement ...

Dr. Vivian Sun is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her medical degree from University of Maryland and psychiatry training at University of ...

Experts generally recognize six major types of anxiety: generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety, panic, and phobias, further distinguishing agoraphobia as an anxiety ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Your brain makes life-or-death decisions in milliseconds, and scientists just figured out exactly how it chooses between fight, flight, or freeze. New research reveals that two ...

Anxiety disorders are common and treatable. However, not all therapies work the same way or fit everyone. Some therapies target thoughts. Others focus on behavior, the body, or past memories. Choosing ...

As you probably know from personal experience, anxiety can be a lot of things — a cause of insomnia, a roadblock to living your best life or a demon you have to fight off if you want to accomplish ...

Regular physical activity also has other benefits for anxiety, says Adam Borland, PsyD, a psychologist at Cleveland Clinic Center for Behavioral Health in Ohio. “Exercise serves as a healthy ...

There are officially six types of anxiety disorder, all related in some way to activation of the fear system, vigilance in anticipation of some kind of future threat or bad outcome, and behavior ...