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  • Self-Focused Attention in a Conversation increases Social Anxiety

    Your two eyes together process about two megabytes of information per second. They accomplish this by transmitting along the approximately one million nerve fibers exiting each eye to the brain. We efficiently process this enormous amount of information by prioritizing certain information for immediate process and subordinating the rest to be dealt with later--by later we mean milliseconds. We call this phenomenon Attention1.

    “Attention is a mechanism that selects information of current relevance to the organism while leaving the non-selected, and thus non-attended, data to suffer from benign neglect", says Naotsugu Tsuchiya and Christof Kochttention, two of the key knowledge leaders in the area of consciousness


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    Date Posted: December 10, 2012

    Categories: Anxiety, Self-Confidence


  • Top Ten Specific Mental Disorders

    Most of us worry about the possibility of getting physically sick at some time in our life and that is why insurance coverage of medical diseases is so common. However, how many of us even think about developing a psychological illness let alone get insurance coverage for it?

    Yet a recent and very reliable survey in the United States (US) concluded that about half of the population will experience a mental disorder of some kind, at some time in their life (Kessler et al, 2005; Appendix).


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    Date Posted: April 16, 2012

    Categories: Adult ADHD, Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Bipolar, Depression / Bipolar, Drug Addiction, Obsessions & Compulsions (OCD), Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens, Phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD


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