Nearly one in 25 American adults has serious mental illness, which means odds are someone in your life is coping with anxiety, depression, OCD, bipolar disorder or another debilitating condition.

Approximately 19% of American adults live with an anxiety disorder. A new survey suggests that for young people, heavy social ...

Generalized anxiety disorder affects 1 in 20 U.S. adults. Those with serious symptoms may isolate themselves to the point where they rarely leave their home and are unable to work and build meaningful ...

In the mental health field, we tend to pathologize and diagnose even commonly encountered challenges. Through the lens of human experience, however, we can recognize that some emotional and mental ...

When we first meet Anxiety, the latest emotion helping a 13-year-old girl named Riley in Disney's summer blockbuster "Inside Out 2," the character introduces herself by saying that Fear - another ...

Smartphone-based cognitive-behavioral therapy outperforms psychoeducation for generalized anxiety disorder, with benefits ...

Generalized anxiety disorder affects millions, often trapping sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation that conventional medications barely relieve. At UCSF, neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchell is ...

Patients suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder often have inaccurate expectations that do not come true.

Everyone has felt anxiety. But what exactly is it, and when is it something to, well, be anxious about? Anxiety is a feeling of dread, fear and uneasiness, according to the National Library of ...

TUPELO – Anxiety is a normal response to a stressor, something that causes strain or tension. By itself, anxiety shouldn’t be made into some sort of pathological phenomenon. It is something that is a ...

Morning anxiety feels like it comes out of nowhere, but psychologists say it usually has a very clear source. Here are the ...