If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. —Obi-Wan Kenobi, "Star Wars" Like many psychiatric symptoms, anxiety can be conceptualized along a spectrum ...

(credit: David Cohen/Flash90) For example, over a thousand years ago ... What is the difference between a healthy fear of heaven and pathological anxiety? All of these questions revolve around ...

Having to tell your kid to put his shoes on three times before school every day is not necessarily pathological ... child’s behaviors are driven by anxiety so overwhelming that they lose ...

Someone might embellish their professional experience during a job interview, for example ... of pathological lying. But not always. Some people may lie compulsively to reduce anxiety, but ...

For example, I have the chance to buy a stock ... risk-aversion characterizes anxiety (specifically, unmedicated pathological anxiety). Most of us are a little risk-averse and a little loss ...

Anxiety disorders and addiction are often diagnosed ... or associated processes not causally related to the disease (for example, concomitant stroke in cocaine users, or alcohol or amphetamine ...

PDA stands for Pathological Demand Avoidance. “Basically, demand avoidance is a profile where children find the demands of everyday life provoke intense anxiety, and they respond to that anxiety by ...

Panic attacks, social anxiety and phobias afflict almost 20 per cent of Americans annually, for example ... current divisions between normal and pathological anxiety minimize the former and ...

What, for example, is the "it" in "get-it-out-of-the-way" thinking? The pain or consequence one wishes to avoid are often moving, even unknowable, targets. In pathological anxiety states ...

For example, it’s only been “normal” to ... This is especially true when it comes to Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), a condition widely associated with Autism but one that is emerging ...

For example, over a thousand years ago ... What is the difference between a healthy fear of heaven and pathological anxiety? All of these questions revolve around a fundamental distinction ...