Depression hits many of us at different times during our lives. The symptoms are commonly known: being tired all the time, low self-esteem, no self-confidence, disturbed sleep, concentration impaired and no interest in life. Depression is not just a dark mood; it is an illness. Low levels of the hormone serotonin are a known contributing factor. The lower the Serotonin levels the deeper the...

Anxiety and panic attack sufferers usually go through a horrible battle always worrying the possibility that another attack may hit any minute. This only leads the sufferer to avoid any type of social activity that they once enjoyed. Their self esteem is very low and most tend to experience depersonalization as well. The most important step to stop anxiety attacks is to get used to the...

About Vagus Nerve Stimulation VNS is not related to brain surgery, although it is a treatment that affects the function of the brain. Vagus Nerve Stimulation uses specific stimulation of the vagus nerve to send stimulation to specific parts of the brain that are involved in mood. It is not like Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT), a treatment that involves stimulation of the entire brain and...

So what happens when a person first identifies that he or she suffers from an anxiety disorder? For all of us, thousands of thoughts are pouring through our brain at the same moment. I'm a freak! What do I do? What's wrong with me? Is there any cure? To further worsen the situation, many of us have lives that are full of all sorts of other drama such as addiction, other mental illness like...

We all have the fear of conducting ourselves the wrong way in public or failing to say the right thing at the right place to the right person. And we all feel that our choice of words might fail us. In many cases after coming back home we feel that we could have used better words to convey a certain point. But that's fine. There is no need to be worried about these little qualms and...