Ever felt your heart racing before a big presentation, or maybe butterflies in your stomach when meeting someone new? That's ...

Anxiety disorders are characterized by “chronically elevated arousal.” This state floods the brain with stress-related ...

Psychotherapy involves speaking with a mental health professional to help you better identify, understand, and resolve any behaviors, thoughts, and emotions that may be impacting your mental ...

For the first time, an influential task force now recommends all people under age 65 be screened for anxiety problems at regular checkups. As NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports, the goal is to help ...

Altering attention diminishes worry more powerfully than trying to directly conquer emotional aspects of anxiety. Anxiety can feel tremendously uncomfortable, unsettling, and discombobulating. Whether ...

HEALTH officials have issued an urgent addiction warning over three common pain and anxiety drugs. UK medicines watchdog the ...

The survey indicates one in seven children aged seven to 11 has "clinically significant" emotional difficulties, meaning they ...

While anxiety helps us spot danger and avoid it, too much anxiety and experiencing anxiety when something is not dangerous can be very upsetting for children. It can also keep children from engaging ...

NiceRx analyzed obesity, sleep and anxiety in each state. Louisiana ranked second for highest number of adults affected by ...

The chances are fairly high that either you or a loved one has had a history of anxiety. In any given year about 17% of us will have an anxiety disorder—and over our lives, about 28% of us will have ...

Jessica Booth is a New York-based freelance writer who regularly writes about health, wellness, parenting, food, travel, beauty and more for a variety of publications. She currently writes for Forbes ...