Sudden surges of anguish can accompany intense mourning. That’s not unusual, experts say, and sometimes even helpful.

One moment you’re going about your day normally, and the next your heart is pounding like it’s trying to escape your chest while your brain screams that something catastrophic is about to happen. Your ...

As both an anxiety therapist and someone who has personally experienced Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), panic disorder, OCD, and agoraphobia, I’ve heard countless descriptions of anxiety and panic ...

I think there is a misapprehension that those of us in the mental-health field who write self-help books do so from a clinical distance and without personal experience with the content that we present ...

Chest tightness. Racing heartbeat. Shortness of breath. Sweating. For many, these symptoms trigger a familiar thought: “It’s just anxiety.” But what if it’s not? Health experts warn that ...

Once again, Clune doesn’t follow the standard quest plot, a tidy arc from diagnosis to cure. Still, in capturing the symptoms, he is spot-on. Through the first-person narration of his protagonist, ...