Did Mental Illness Make Him Do It???

Empty School Corridor

In a recent post Mental Illness Didn’t Make Him Do It, author Jonathan Foiles, makes a case that mental illness was not the reason behind Nikolas Cruz shooting of school children in the Florida. While the arguments seem justified, they miss taking an evidence-based approach to testing some crucial hypothesis about the shooting massacres that […]

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How to Stop Panic Attacks Before They Start

How to stop panic attacks

Introduction Panic attacks are a sudden feeling of intense and disabling stress or anxiety. They tend to last anywhere between ten minutes and several hours.They can occur to us at any time of the day, even when we may be feeling relaxed. Once we have been through a panic attack and experienced the discomfort and […]

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Panic Attacks Vs Panic Disorder

panic attacks vs panic disorder

Panic Attacks vs Panic Disorder Panic attacks are a sudden feeling of intense and disabling stress or anxiety. They tend to last anywhere between ten minutes and several hours. In reality, we go through Panic Attacks when we experience sudden and intense feelings of fear and anxiety. They can occur to us at any time […]

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What Causes Panic Attacks

Young woman having a panic attack

What Causes Panic Attacks Are they real? Yesterday, I saw someone panicking in a situation and another bystander came along and said to me “Seems like this person is having a panic attack!”. I was quite bemused, but experience tells me that this is the general interpretation of the term Panic Attacks. In reality, we […]

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