Blog by A psychiatrist in Japan.

Blog by A psychiatrist in Japan.
渋谷の公園の樹木

2010-06-07

Stress

Anxiety disorder can arise in response to life stresses such as financial worries or chronic physical illness. Somewhere between 4% and 10% of older adults are diagnosed with anxiety disorder, a figure which is probably an underestimate due to the tendency of adults to minimize psychiatric problems or to focus on their physical manifestations. Anxiety is also common among older people who have dementia. On the other hand, anxiety disorder is sometimes misdiagnosed among older adults when doctors misinterpret symptoms of a physical ailment (for instance, racing heartbeat due to cardiac arrhythmia) as signs of anxiety.

Anxiety disorder.

Anxiety disorders are blanket terms covering several different forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety which only came under the aegis of psychiatry at the very end of the 19th century.Current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize a wide variety of anxiety disorders. Recent surveys have found that as many as 18% of Americans may be affected by one or more of them.

Ipad...

最近、Ipadがきてますね〜。私も欲しいと思う今日この頃。MACばかり使っている私としては、是非欲しいと思うのですが、まだ発売したばかりだし、我慢してます。どんどん便利な物が出てきて凄い世の中になってきましたね〜。