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Anxiety Disorders: Managing Anxiety and Stress for Better Mental Health

Psychological Health Care

Anxiety is a natural response to stress. The reality is that for some, stress and fear can become so overwhelming and persistent that it can evolve into an anxiety disorder, impacting daily life and overall well-being. What Are Anxiety Disorders? How Common Are Anxiety Disorders in Australia?

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Anxiety or Anxiety Disorder?

MQ Mental Health

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this year's theme is anxiety. To kick off the conversation around the topic, we at MQ want to chat about the difference between anxiety and an anxiety disorder. Is it anxiety or an anxiety disorder? This might be a disorder.

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Investigating the transdiagnostic nature of rumination across depressive, anxiety and eating disorders: A meta-analysis.

Society of Clinical Psychology

Investigating transdiagnostic factors across mental disorders is of high importance as transdiagnostic factors can be targeted for both diagnosis and treatment in a diagnostically mixed sample. As depression, anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid illnesses that share a multitude of risk factors (McGrath et al.,

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Economic benefits of ADIE treatment for autistic people with anxiety

MQ Mental Health

Thousands of people could potentially benefit from a new treatment to an anxiety disorder which affects 18% of autistic people, were it rolled out across the UK. The economic benefits of ADIE, a treatment for autistic people who have Generalised Anxiety Disorder, could be valued as high as £125-£170 million nationally.

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Managing Your Child’s Anxiety.

Gary Direnfeld

That childhood anxiety. As you ask the many questions seeking an answer as to why from the child, you may inadvertently be ramping up anxiety for you both. Anxiety, as a disorder, is about feelings betraying the mind as the feelings are either disproportionate to the triggering event or an independent experience.

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How Does Anxiety Affect Your Daily Life? Symptoms & Tips To Overcome

Blurt It Out

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorder, affecting nearly one in three individuals over the course of a lifetime. So, you may be wondering – how does anxiety affect your daily life? How Does Anxiety Affect Daily Life? The feeling of anxiety as a response to stressful situations is natural.

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Can Eating Disorders Change?

MQ Mental Health

But a person diagnosed with anorexia might develop binge eating disorder, or other types of eating disorders, as this personal story backed by research can attest. This Eating Disorder Awareness Week we consider whether eating disorders can change throughout a person’s life. But it’s certainly got ‘different’.