It’s also important to try the SRI for a long enough time. Taking the SRI for 12 to 16 weeks, and reaching a high dose (unless a lower dose works for you) for at least 3 of those weeks is called an “adequate” trial. If you don’t take a high enough dose, or if you [...]

According to The Oxford Dictionary, hygiene is the principles of maintaining health, such as by cleanliness. There is one part of hygiene which maintains good health at night and promotes sleep. This is ‘sleep hygiene’, and this has become standard terminology among sleep experts. There are five important items that are relevant to sleep hygiene [...]

Like writer’s cramp, spasmodic torticollis or wryneck is a condition which is widely considered to be uninfluenced by any form of treatment. In fact, the most recently advocated treatment involves a destructive operation on the brain. A seventeen-year-old schoolboy had this condition in quite advanced form so that his head was held twisted to one [...]

‘Uncued’—spontaneous panic attacks The experience of an uncued attack is the central feature of panic disorder. An uncued panic attack is an attack that occurs spontaneously, irrespective of what the person may be doing at the time. It is not triggered by situations and places. People who experience this type of attack may also experience [...]

Panic disorder; generalised anxiety disorder; post traumatic stress disorder; obsessive compulsive disorder; and social phobia are classified as anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders affect 12.6% per cent of the population over a twelve-month period (Andrews 1994). Research suggests anxiety disorders represent the largest mental health problem in the general population (APA 1980). Using the current Australian [...]