Mental Health: Overview

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  • Bipolar Disorder - Topic Overview

    03/14/08, Healthwise

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  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - Topic Overview

    06/25/08, Healthwise

    Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of mental illness that causes repeated unwanted thoughts. To get rid of the thoughts, a person does the same tasks over and over. For example, you may fear that everything you touch has germs

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  • Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) - Topic Overview

    08/08/08, Healthwise

    Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that affects a person during the same season each year. If you get depressed in the winter but feel much better in spring and summer, you may have SAD.

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  • Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teens - Topic Overview

    05/14/07, Healthwise

    When children older than age 6 or teens have bipolar disorder, they have mood swings with extreme ups and downs. When they are up, they have brief, intense outbursts or feel irritable (mania) several times almost every day. When they are

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  • Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder - Topic Overview

    09/16/08, Healthwise

    A panic attack is a sudden, intense fear or anxiety that may make you short of breath or dizzy or make your heart pound. You may feel out of control. Some people believe they are having a heart attack or are about to die. An attack us

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  • Hypnosis

    06/27/07, Healthwise

    Hypnosis is a state of focused concentration during which a person becomes less aware of his or her surroundings. Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis to treat physical or psychological conditions.

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  • Grief: Coping with grief

    11/12/07, Healthwise

     What can I expect during grieving? Why is it important to grieve? How can I manage my grief? Where to go from here

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