There are a number of problems that are included into the notion of anxiety. Among them are: general phobia, social phobia, special phobia (fear of open and closed space, fear of spiders, etc.), state of panic, posttraumatic stress. Every day many people appear to face some sort of phobia malfunction.

According to the statistics, nearly 25% of the whole world population has various forms of phobia that need periodical treatment from time to time. Less strong forms of phobia trouble other 25% (e.g. fear of spiders or mice).

It is necessary to distinguish between phobia and fear. During our life all of us sooner or later come across situations causing strong fear that is in fact a natural reaction of the body assisting us to cope with risk.

Nevertheless, some people feel a strong and unreasonable fear that can not be explained by any situation.

Such individuals suffer from permanent fear that interferes with their everyday activities. (more…)

All of us know that sleep is an important part of our life but for lots of people untroubled sleep is problematic. People affected with insomnia that is the most widespread sleep disturbance, have problems falling asleep, wake frequently during the night, wake very early in the morning, or simply feel that their sleep is not regenerating.

Anyone of au can happen to have insomnia from time to time. But it can turn to be a permanent trouble that negatively influences your activities during the whole day. You can become irascible and have less reasonable considerations. Also as you feel drowsy during the day, you have more chances to get into some accident.

If you have insomnia, you should not neglect or reject it as something unimportant. Looking for treatment, you will be able to find support. First of all, do your best to get a good sleep by your own forces. Also, there are a wide range of medications and treatments able to help you fall asleep and do not wake at night. (more…)

Most people from time to time may feel upset or irrationally gloomy or just totally dejected. No one can feel secured against such unpleasant emotional experience. Sometimes they may continue influencing how the person sleeps and works, their self-esteem and considerations about family, mates. In this case they are not simple ordinary things but signs of clinical disorder.

Specialists differentiate three most typical kinds of depression. The first one known as a major depression hinders the person to eat, sleep, study, work and get pleasure from doing pleasing activities. The person may encounter such incapacitating incident only one time during their life but probably it would take place a number of times. One more type is called dysthymia. The person suffering with its permanent signs though not totally disabled cannot work properly or be in high spirits. The third kind of depressive state is bipolar effective disorder that is also referred to as manic-depressive psychosis. It manifests in heavy high (mania) and low (melancholy) points. (more…)

The Causes of Erectile Dysfunction

Impotence, another name of erectile dysfunction, involve men of 40 and upwards. The causes include both physical (80%) and psychological (20%). Men with this diagnosis should not get frustrated as there are effective therapies able to cure this malfunction.

Every man at some moments of his life may not be able to begin and keep up a full erection till the end of the process. This condition is called “erectile dysfunction”. If this happens occasionally according to exhaustion, distress, alcohol, it is considered to be a temporary sexual dysfunction and does not influence his life or his relations much.

But in case of confirmed erectile dysfunction, there is much more serious influence on the man’s self-respect, on the personal happiness and on his health. Nearly 5% of men aged 40 or 50 and 15-25% of men aged 60-65 suffer from confirmed erectile dysfunction.

Causation

At the beginning, most men tend to shift the blame on exhaustion, distress and something like that but in most case the reason is physical (70-80%). Though you should not ignore psychological blocks as it is quite hard to diagnose them and cure.

1) Cardiovascular diseases. The chief cause of impotence at men in their 60s is atherosclerosis the main danger of getting which is smoking.

2) Psychological causes. Among such causes resulting in impotence are fear of having a sexual failure, distress, melancholy, and guilt, also social and marital pressure.

3) Diseases of endocrine system. Only 5% of cases of impotence are causes by these disorders. It happens when the level of testosterone is reduced and the libido diminishes so the erection does not occur.

4) Neurological disorders. Strokes, backbone damages may break the neurovascular circulation between the brain and the phallus. Among other reasons of impotence are Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases.

5) Operations. If the man has recently had a surgery or a trauma in the pelvic zone it can be a reason of impotence as the small vascular nervous structures responsible for keeping up the erection can be easily harmed.