The relationship between anxiety and sleep is one of the most clinically significant and bidirectional interactions in all of mental health medicine. Anxiety disrupts sleep — the racing thoughts, heightened physiological arousal, and hypervigilant threat monitoring that characterize anxious states are fundamentally incompatible with the cognitive and neurological conditions required . . . Read more

Social anxiety disorder — sometimes called social phobia — is far more than shyness or introversion. It is a recognized mental health condition in which the fear of social or performance situations produces intense, persistent anxiety that is disproportionate to the actual threat posed and causes significant functional impairment. People . . . Read more

Few experiences in the spectrum of human suffering are as viscerally terrifying as a panic attack. Within seconds, without apparent warning, a wave of overwhelming fear and physical symptoms engulfs the sufferer: the heart pounds with frightening force, breathing becomes labored, the chest tightens, dizziness descends, limbs tingle, and a . . . Read more

Generalized Anxiety Disorder, commonly referred to as GAD, is a pervasive and often misunderstood mental health condition that affects tens of millions of people worldwide. Unlike the situational worry that most people experience in response to genuine stressors — a job interview, a medical diagnosis, a financial setback — GAD . . . Read more