Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, commonly referred to as OCD, is an anxiety disorder. Although the thoughts associated with this disorder are quite bizarre, they are not the focal point and do not make up the entire disorder. The essential features of an obsessive-compulsive person are recurrent obs...

Psychological Disorders Anxiety- Anxiety is a generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal. Karen Horney described anxiety as the central factor in both normal and abnormal behav...

Most people have a view of what they think mental illness is. Most of us have seen, at one time or another, someone walking on the street muttering to him or herself, perhaps gesturing, or picking through trash cans but pulling out peculiar things, or exhibiting other behaviors we think are "off"...

Anxiety It is the end of the quarter of your basketball game with 0 seconds left on the clock, your team is down by only one point, and you got fouled. It is up to you to make either the first free throw to tie it, and the second to win. The pressure is on, and a screaming crowd doesn't mak...

Fear of Flying A phobia is a clinically recognized, intense fear of an object or situation. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (Colman, 2004), a phobia can be defined as "a persistent, irrational fear of an object, event, activity, or situation called a phobic stimulus, resul...

People with anxiety disorders aren't the only people who experience anxiety; in fact, everyone feels it everyday, they just don't know it. Anxiety is what you feel before a big game or an important test. It's the source of excitement before you go on a ski trip at your favorite resort...