“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
There have been reports from time to time about the dangers of going without sleep. More recently, there was a report about the dangers of sleeping medicine. According to that report, there was a greatly increased risk of death in people who used sleeping medicines...
There is a condition called generalized anxiety disorder, which isn’t really a disorder, but which describes people who seem to be worrying all the time. Some typical worries: that this mole on my arm may be malignant, that the children will be kidnapped on the way to...
After many years of running a Health Anxiety Clinic it became obvious to me that most of the patients who expressed a fear of dying were young. Very few are truly old. In fact, in a different context I have had occasion to take care of people who were old and were, in...
I have been running a program at the Anxiety and Phobia Center for the last ten years for people suffering from health anxiety. These people represent a number of different diagnostic categories: hypocondriasis, somatization disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder...