The Hormone Connection to Women's Mental health

The Hormone Connection to Women's Mental health

Do hormones really affect women' mood?

Dizziness - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Dizziness - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Dizziness is a term used to describe when you are feeling woozy, or faint. Vertigo, a symptom of dizziness, is the feeling that the room is spinning around you. When people experience dizziness, it may be a symptom showing the balance mechanism in your inner ear is not working properly. 

Hyperventilation - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

Hyperventilation - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

Hyperventilation is rapid or deep breathing, usually caused by anxiety or panic. This overbreathing, as it is sometimes called, may actually leave you feeling breathless. When you breathe, you inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Excessive breathing may lead to low levels of carbon dioxide in your blood, which causes many of the symptoms that you may feel if you hyperventilate.

How to Overcome Arachnophobia

How to Overcome Arachnophobia

The dread of spiders is known as 'Arachnophobia,' a word originating from the Greek terms 'arachne' translates to spider and 'phobos' translates to horror.

Mindfulness: Meditation vs. Skill Set

Mindfulness: Meditation vs. Skill Set


As a long term yogic and vipassana meditator, and a mindfulness-based psychotherapist who regularly teaches meditation practices to my patients, I find the growth of mindfulness as a clinical intervention very timely. Last year, I attended two conferences focused on the use of mindfulness as a clinical intervention: “Meditation and Psychotherapy” at Harvard Medical School and “Mindfulness and Psychotherapy” at UCLA. 

How to Deal With Autistic Teenagers

How to Deal With Autistic Teenagers

For most parents, one of the most trying times in their lives is during their child's teenage years.

How to Control Panic Attacks - Don't Run or Hide From it

How to Control Panic Attacks


Panic attacks is defined as a sudden attack of intense fear and terror along with symptoms of weakness, rapid and irregular heart beat, difficulty in breathing, clamminess and losing the sense of reality.

Difference Between Panic Attack and Heart Attack

Difference Between Panic Attack and Heart Attack

It started with a tingling sensation in your chest...gradually, your chest muscles starts to tighten and it becomes more and more painful with each passing minute. You also notice that you heart is beating faster and faster and you can actually 'feel it' thumping madly against your chest. The immediate thought of 'heart attack' or 'stroke' flashes into your mind...as you start feeling light-headed and numb, you begin to believe that you are indeed suffering from heart attack...or is it?