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Thank you for this. It is a really good piece of writing, and I've been Sumonelse sometimes as well. There's a reason I blocked WebMD and several other medical sites, since it seemed to say everything was either cancer or something bizarre, rare, and tropical: "Call your doctor now". It was...

Depression and grief can both crush motivation completely. I found at my worst I was missing appointments, writing down wrong times, and just having trouble doing anything. It didn't seem like there was any point in trying, and every I did do was going wrong because my brain just wasn't...

For a moment there I thought you meant the "blues" music genre. I think everyone hates feeling depressed, because it isn't a nice way to feel. The time after Christmas and New Year can be a little depressing. The Christmas celebrations are over, all the guests and friends have gone home, and...

With my medical condition the doctor wanted to prescribe cod live oil, which I hate, so there's a real incentive to find alternatives! I found my mood stablised a lot once I changed my diet to include more shellfish, probably for the same reason you eat more fish. The only problem is that it is...

I'm not sure. As part of treatment it can work very well, but for example, in the phobia treatment I did, they start by talking through it, answering questions about what phobias are and why the reaction occurs, followed by hypnotherapy and then carefully stepped-up exposure: images, caged, and...

If you are waking up in the dark, going home in the dark, and if you work in an office, only get an hour or so's daylight at lunchtime, that's always a bit difficult to deal with. I try to focus on the Christmas lights, and good cheer, but the later parts of November before they go up can be...

My Black Friday shopping was done online, but I'm dreading going into the rush to buy Christmas presents. I may end up getting them all through Amazon. That sounds like natural caution, after all if you get jostled it is likely to hurt. It is just a shame it has spoiled something you enjoyed...

It is a lot less intimidating to argue with someone online than in person, especially if they are the type to lose their temper or lie about the discussion (getting it in writing is good). Anxiety can hit a lot hard face to face than when you have time to put your thoughts in order and make a...

That just shows how much you love them. They really do become part of the family, don't they? The support and love from my cats kept me going through some of the worst times in my life. One of them passed away, and the emptiness is left is awful. It feels like I buried part of my heart with...

Music is designed to create moods, to start you dancing, or thinking, or singing along, so it's seems pretty reasonable that sad music could make someone more depressed. I don't think it would affect someone without anxiety or another existing cause, but if you are already down, it could be a...

This sort of thing really annoys me. For it to be a valid social experiment, he'd need the participants to give consent to take part in it before hand, a control group, and a double blind - the people who select the participants and perform the experiment should be different people to the person...

Stress can cause so many illnesses and physical problems, that I'd be surprised if Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, (or its varient Complex-PTSD) didn't cause other illnesses. I'd have thought it could potentially trigger any known stress-related disorder, possibly others if the person already...

I've had a couple of panic attacks, but I can't really suggest much to help apart from a hot water bottle, a hot drink, and a quiet room. You appear to already have those in hand. It is a bit of a vicious circle isn't it? You're stressed so you get the chest pains, then the chest pains cause...

I don't think it is cowardly to be afraid of going to the dentist. It can be unpleasant and, if you have a bad dentist, very painful! Being afraid of pain seems normal to me. The problem is if you let the fear stop you going. Don't forget dentists are people and they don't want you to be upset...

I think people tend to lose their tempers more when they are under stress. For some people, especially introverts, that might just be being in a crowd, or around a large and busy environment. If you know someone blows up when teased, its probably better not to tease them, since it just makes an...

As a fellow phobic I completely understand where you are coming from. Exposure therapy doesn't always work with spiders because they move fast and come out of nowhere in the wild, so caged ones don't trigger the same result. The thought of one crawling on you *shudder*. What worked for me was a...

Procrastinators are in good company. Author Douglas Adams once said he liked deadlines, because he "loves the whooshing noise they make as they go passed" ;). I used to put things off hoping they would go away, but I just ended up with this huge pile of work staring at me! Now I tend to get...

Scuttling things with eight legs. A fairly common one, but it got to the point where I couldn't have lived alone, and was seriously impacting everything I did. Serious thanks to the people who managed to cure it, as in I'll never like the creatures but I can now put a box over one and put it...

Don't feel horrible. Death is always traumatic and upsetting, and the body is a all-too-real reminder of that. It seems natural to me not to want to look at final proof a person is gone, particularly if it was your sister, because of all the memories and the way it brings the loss home. I am so...

I really feel for you. It is difficult when someone wants to bring up a political debate at what should be a pleasant gathering, and I have never understood why people do that because it tends to start arguments. I'd surprised they would bring this up around work colleagues though, since it...