Positive Psychology: Anxiety Disorders: More Than a Case of the Nerves

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Anxiety Disorders: More Than a Case of the Nerves

UCtelevision | February 15, 2008 | 34 likes, 4 dislikes

Anxiety disorders are the most common type of psychiatric disorder and are more common in women. Symptoms of anxiety disorders including unrealistic or excessive worry, sleep disturbances, jitteriness, fatigue, and upset stomach vary in severity and can have a devastating impact on one's quality of life. Anxiety disorders are treatable, but frequently go undiagnosed.
Series: "Women's Health Today" [7/2004] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 8451]

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Education

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."