If you suffer with anxiety disorder, an anxiety attack can feel very much like a heart attack. That’s because anxiety attack symptoms are similar in many ways to a heart attack. A panic attack is a less serious version of an anxiety attack, but is equally alarming to the person experiencing it. What is the difference…

  It’s the Christmas season, and party invites are flying through the air. But you have social anxiety. Do you accept the invites or, do you give some convenient excuse not to attend? Avoiding the crowd is okay. In some cases, it might be better to avoid the large social crowd. Especially if anxiety about…

There’s a mind-body link between depression and low back pain. It’s well-known that neck pain and back pain are side-effects of stress. But depression also causes muscle issues, especially low back pain. Back pain is linked to depression and anxiety. In 2017, research done by Canadian University students found a direct link between depression and…

  Depression affects eyesight. This means that when you’re depressed, you actually see the world differently than other people. The world becomes a grey, hazy place and things you normally would see and recognize get missed. How your eyes let you see the world. Human eyes actually form as two outgrowths of the brain in the embryo.…

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