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[USA] Think Social Networks, Blogs Can’t Hurt You? Health insurers can use your on-line posts to avoid paying for treatment
Debunking the 'Chemical Imbalance' myth (pdf)
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Antidepressants (Note: requires registration of a valid email address)
Not Depressed, Just British!
recommended links
Depression Is Real Coalition
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ABIL: Agoraphobics Building
Independant Lives -
Agoraphobia and Panic
Disorder Foundation -
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America - Anxiety Network Australia
- Anxiety-Panic.Com
- AnxietyZone
- Army Behavioral Health
- BrainPhysics - OCD
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Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments - Children of Hoarders
- Choices in Mental Health (UK)
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Dart Foundation: Gateway to PTSD
information -
David Baldwin's
Trauma Information Pages - e-couch free personal self-help guide
- EMDR Institute, Inc.
- EMDR Network Japan
- Fear of Flying course (free)
- Healthy Minds
- Information for People with Anxiety Disorders
- Internet Guide to REBT, CBT
- Living with a Brain Disorder
- Morita Therapy
- Mayo Clinic : Depression
- Mayo Clinic : GAD
- Mayo Clinic : OCD
- Mayo Clinic : Panic Attacks
- Mayo Clinic : PTSD
- Mayo Clinic : Social Anxiety
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Medicines.org.uk - Anxiety &
Depression guides - Mind-Your-Mind Canada
- National Center for PTSD
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National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) - No Such Thing As Crazy
- OCD Action, UK
- OCD Ireland
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Open Minds, Open Doors
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- Paniccure.com
- Partners With PTSD
- Prescription Drug Information
- Psychiatric Service Dog Society
- PsychNews
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Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy (REBT) - Sane Australia
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Shyness & Social Anxiety
Service of Australia -
Social Phobia/Social Anxiety
Association - Social Anxiety Support board
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South African Depression &
Anxiety Group - Suicide Prevention Help
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tAPir - the Anxiety Panic
internet resource -
The Panic Center (Free
CBT based programs) - The School of OCD
- UN-WHO Drug Trials Database
- U.S. Army Behavioral Health - PTSD
we support
"just don't smoke"
Yul Brynner
- Menthol cigarettes harder to quit
- Secondhand smoke in cars serious threat to kid's health
- Starting smoking young increases addiction risk
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Smoking doesn't slim girls;
stunts boys' growth - 40 reasons why you should quit smoking
- Pregnant smokers 'prime' their kids to smoke
- Smoking related coronary artery disease quickly reversed if young smokers quit
- Not ready to quit? Try cutting back
- Half smoking again within year of lung cancer surgery
- Cutting back 'compensation' increases toxin load per cigarette
- Tobacco companies upped nicotine level 11% since 1998
- Workplace passive smoke increases lung cancer risk
- Hooked by genes: The DNA sequences cigarette companies love
- Smoking causes long lasting changes to brain's bio chemistry
- Nicotine receptor stimulant trebles the odds of stopping smoking
- Bupropion, nortriptyline double chances of quitting
- Nicotine's powerful role in reinforcing smoking
- Pregnant smokers raise child's risk of stroke, heart attack
- Smoking linked to pancreatic cancer
- Neurobiology of Smokers' Cravings
- 'Low cancer risk' cigarettes as deadly as regular kind
- Quitting reduces lung cancer death risk by 70%
- Fetal nicotine exposure linked to teen attention problems
- Outdoor second-hand smoke exposure can harm
- Response to day's first cigarette predicts ease of quitting
- 'Healthy' children of smoking parents aren't really so healthy
- Children of smokers have up to five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
- Smoking increases risk of dementia
- Smoking kills even after quitting
- Antenatal second hand smoke exposure increases child's psychological problems
- Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
- Just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
- Smokers less likely to survive early stage lung cancer
- Smokeless tobacco delivers carcinogens more efficiently than cigarettes!
- Smoking permanently turns on genes that increase lung cancer susceptibility
- Secondhand smoke a health hazard for pets too
- Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results
- Smoking doesn't burn fat
- Smoking linked to sagging breasts
- No evidence waterpipes decrease smoking harm
- Tobacco smoke + alcohol damage hearts more than either alone
anti torture campaign
- Torture experts write APA policy
- [APA] still rocked by torture debate
- Petition for psychologists
- AMA president says APA "did not accurately represent our ethical guidelines"
- Psychologists Aiding Torturers
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Annual conference endorses
APA's torture policy :( - Physicians for Human Rights call on Congress to vote No on Military Commissions Bill
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Torture is a Form of Trauma;
Trauma Causes PTSD - Psychoanalysts' association condemns torture use
- Humiliating, inhumane or degrading treatment IS torture
- Two American psychologists accused of war crimes. U.S. DoD investigating.
- DoD report proves psychologists central to POW/detainee abuse (pdf)
- 40 psychologists demand APA change policy on torture (pdf)
- Did the American Psychological Association turn a blind eye to torture for medicine precribing rights?
- Will psychologists still abet torture?
- Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award Over Interrogation Policy
- Guantanamo Medical Role Likened to South Africa Under Apartheid
- The ethics of interrogation and the American Psychological Association
Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. General John (Jeff) Kimmons, has stated that no actionable intelligence had been obtained through abusive interrogation methods in the last 5 years.
monument, Monmouth County
New Jersey.
I am a 46 year old who suffers from Bufonophobia (fear of toads) -- I have only known of 2 other people in my life with the same fear and one of them is my sister. I am not sure why I have this fear -- but it is crippling - especially in Texas during spring time -- after it rains - I WILL NOT go outside. I had one that appeared on the sidewalk of the house I used to live in and it literally kept me hostage in my own home -- terrified to leave for fear of it. I once walked my dog in the evening and when we went to go back inside - there was a GIANT TOAD on my door stoop -- me and my dog slept in my car that night -- anyone I have told this story too things I'm ridiculous! Let me here from other Bufonophobes!
I don't have that fear but I feel sorry for anyone that has a fear of any animal. I myself have Pneumatiphobia(Fear of spirits) and it sucks LOL. But I do have 5 fire-bellied toads as pets and 3 bullfrogs and a treefrog and an African dwarf frog! and They are completly harmless.
I also have a great fear of these animals and understand the need to stay clear of them, I have suffer all my life with this phobia. I understand people laugh and they deem harmless......but not to me, I have no fear of heights, snakes, bugs, lizards or tight spaces.....no one makes fun of these fears, why is this such a joke to so many people??
my fear of toads is really effecting me. i have cut the grass a few times and each time i find my self tryinig to run into the house but my knees lock up and get shaky, my breath shortens and throat tightens up, i immediatly feel dizzy and sick and start cry and hyper ventalating, and i feel my body , ecspecially my ears heating up. i dont know when the fear stared, as a kid i used to go out with my freinds and catch toads, in spring and summer come i know what is coming, toads! i also have a pool in my back yard and toads tent to gather around in the folliage. i was swimming once and a toad was in the pool about 3 feet from my swimming slowly toward me and i thought i was going to drownd, or die becaus eall the symptoms above came into play again, and i could not swim thank gosh my parents were there. i cant help it and i dont know what to do my freinds sometimes joke around and wen they find a frog theuy will pick it up and bring it o me i tend to get really mad after, but they dont understand what its like if anyone knows what i can do to help control my fear, please comment back!
I am 23 years old and have suffered from bufonophobia since I was a child, I only recently discovered that there is actually a name for this phobia and that I am not the only one suffering from it. I am scared of toads and frogs, all kinds. I have similar experiences with people who find my fear amusing and think it is hilarious to scare me with toads or frogs that they have picked up and I end up hysterical. I live in QLD in Australia where we are home to an astronomical population of a breed of toads called cane toads which are prevalent here in the spring and summer and grow to massive sizes. If I need to go outside during this time, my boyfriend has to come with me, he will walk ahead of me to ensure there are no toads, he will walk me to my side of the car, then when we arrive home he will come around and get me out again to ensure I do not have a toad 'encounter'. This is just one of the action plans I have in place to reduce the likelihood of encountering a toad. I have toad nightmares. I get anxious symptoms (sweating, shivering, rapid breathing) just THINKING about toads. In the future I am going to move further south where it is colder and they dont have any toads. That sounds like heaven to me.
Erin, like most phobias this one can be overcome through therapy, particularly Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). The Australian government recently bought psychologists into the Medicare scheme which should mean you can see a therapist for little or no cost (if they bulk bill). Your GP should be able to recommend a CBT therapist in your area.