Emotional & Mental Health Slideshows

A phobia is an irrational and abnormal fear. Patients may experience sweating, breathlessness, and fear of dying depending on the severity of the condition. Drugs as well as hypnotherapy and neuro linguistic programming are known treatments.

There are many factors that affect your psychological health and can push you into depression. Here are 10 tricky age-related depression triggers that your doctor should tell you about.

Most people who have a drinking problem aren't able to overcome it without help, and most people who have a drinking problem don't seek help until their lives are beginning to fall apart. Here are 10 ways to deal with excessive drinking, whether you're cutting back or quitting for good.

Anorexia nervosa is an irrational restriction of food in fear of weight gain. Bulimia nervosa is binge eating followed by purging using various methods in fear of weight gain. These are common eating disorders.

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder characterized by periodic episodes of extreme elevation of mood followed by episodes of extreme depression. It is a serious condition affecting 2% of the American population. Read on to find more about the common features of this disease and how to tackle it.

Dementia is the irreversible, progressive loss of higher cognitive function in such a way that daily life is adversely affected. There is no cure, but drug therapy can be used for behavioral modification.

Although depression may leave you feeling down the drain and without any hope, remember it is not a permanent state of mind. Though it may appear difficult initially, the road to recovery is not impossible. Here are a few baby steps that you may take to beat the blues and alleviate your mood.

While we all face stress in our lives, and some stress can be a good thing, too much can cause health problems. Changes to your diet can give you the nutrients you need to help you cope with stress: we tell you how.

When you're feeling under the weather, or you just want to know what to do for next time, here's our step-by-step guide to shaking off the worst of your morning-after blues!

Looking for a way to get to sleep without Lunesta, warm milk and cookies, an alcohol-enriced night cap, or counting sheep? Here are nine basic natural remedies that enable just about everyone to get their zzz's.