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When Anxiety Becomes a Personality Disorder

Very severe anxiety can sometimes lead doctors to diagnose people with personality disorders. Symptoms of the two most prevalent ones are described in this article.

Anxious (Avoidant) Personality Disorder is characterized by pervasive and persistent emotions of insecurity, shyness, tension and apprehension. The person believes they are undeserving, unlikable, and inept socially, and not that important compared with other people. These feelings often mean the affected individual avoids relationships unless certain that they are liked by the other person.

Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder comes in two forms: ‘impulsive type’ and ‘borderline type’, both have the following characteristics: a strong inability to think and plan ahead in combination with no real self-control and the occasional sudden outburst of extreme anger. This anger can itself lead to other behaviors such as violence, particularly if these acts are challenged or stopped by people in the vicinity.

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Mental Health Nursing: The Roles of Psychiatric Nurses

With the introduction of newer issues and recent needs, the concepts in mental health nursing or psychiatric nursing expanded dramatically. From the need to provide nursing care for mental health patients during the end of the 19th century, nurses are nowadays commissioned to provide psychiatric-mental health services on a variety of settings.

A psychiatric nurse works on different settings such as community mental health programs, psychiatric hospitals and facilities, the academe and even in the criminal justice system. There are only two levels of psychiatric nursing: the basic and the advanced. Both of which have various responsibilities.

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What Is The Holistic Approach In Medicine

The holistic approach in medicine is mainly achieved through the complementary or alternative therapies and medicine. Holistic medicines refer to the array of healing and self-help practice that are taken from many cultures and that have been handed down for several generations. Because most of the practices do not have a research basis to it, they are normally known as non-conventional ways to improve your health. These practices include acupuncture, herbal medicine, oriental massage, ayurvedic medicines, homeopathic medicines and naturopathic medicines.

A holistic approach in medicine is mainly aimed to assist the body’s natural healing processes. The holistic approach in medicine is thus based on holistic stimulus. Holistic stimulus is the stimulus to the body to persuade it to heal itself. That is, your body is stimulated to perform the job of healing.

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