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Are Anxiety Disorders All In The Mind? ScienceDaily (May 12, 2008) — Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the dysfunction. The study […]

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How gadgets and the internet are turning us into a nation of emotional basket cases By John Naish PUBLISHED: 18:16 EST, 18 July 2012 | UPDATED: 19:13 EST, 18 July 2012 Can Facebook turn you into a narcissist? Are smartphones creating a nation of panicky control freaks? Do computer games make us develop the attention […]

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 Note that this therapist believes HOCD is one the most treatable mental conditions. By Steven Phillipson, Ph.D.  Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy (LINK to article) The television program is “Seinfeld.” The setting is a professional office of a masseuse. One of the main characters, George Costanza, has agreed to receive the first professional massage of his […]

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Jeannine Stamatakis, instructor at several colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area, responds in Scientific American: There is no denying the high you feel after a run in the park or a swim at the beach. Exercise not only boosts your physical health–as one can easily see by watching a marathon or a boxing match–but […]

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The new research into the Net’s negative effects. Tweets, texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed—and may even create more extreme forms of mental illness, Tony Dokoupil reports.  by Tony Dokoupil | July 9, 2012 1:00 AM EDT Before he launched the most viral video in Internet history, […]

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Background: 26, Male, Gay. I’ve been fapping regularly since I was 16 or 17 and always to porn. I didn’t believe that porn could be detrimental to my mental health because everyone did it, but the way I used it was definitely hurting me. I had the image surfing down pat and had several bulk […]

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J Addict Med. 2012 Jun 20. Montag C, Kirsch P, Sauer C, Markett S, Reuter M. Source From the Department of Psychology (CM, SM, MR), Laboratory of Neurogenetics (CM, SM, MR), and Center for Economics & Neuroscience (CM, SMM, MR), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and Department of Clinical Psychology (PK, CS), Central Institute of […]

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COMMENTS: This is a slightly easier article based on this review – FULL STUDY  – from the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 44 (2), 134–143, 2012, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC J Psychoactive Drugs. 2012 Apr-Jun;44(2):134-43. Blum K1, Chen AL, Giordano J, Borsten J, Chen TJ, Hauser M, Simpatico T, Femino J, Braverman ER, Barh […]

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