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Beautiful Minds with Dr John, Calabar (2025)

01/01/2024

Wishing you a year filled with opportunities and blessings in great health. Amen!

31/12/2023

Happy New Year Eve Beautiful Minds.

In the last two and half years you have given us your time and eyes to travers through the labyrinth of mental health issues. For this; my team and I are grateful.

To this end, beautifulmindswith Dr. John will be going on a break. We'll hopefully be seeing you soon.

Wishing you a prosperous 2024!

30/12/2023

Season Greetings Beautiful Minds and welcome back as we conclude our last mini series for the year 2023.

We conclude with the topic; preventing agoraphobia.

There's no sure way to prevent agoraphobia. But anxiety tends to increase the more you avoid situations that you fear. If you start to have mild fears about going places that are safe, try to practice going to those places over and over again.

This can help you feel more comfortable in those places. If this is too hard to do on your own, ask a family member or friend to go with you, or seek professional help.

If you experience anxiety going places or have panic attacks, get treatment as soon as possible. Get help early to keep symptoms from getting worse. Anxiety, like many other mental health conditions, can be harder to treat if you wait.

Happy New Year in advance and

Remember! Your mind is beautiful and worth protecting.

29/12/2023

Season Greetings Beautiful Minds and welcome back.

We continue our discussion today with complications of Agoraphobia.

Agoraphobia can greatly limit your life's activities. If your agoraphobia is severe, you may not even be able to leave your home. Without treatment, some people become housebound for years. If this happens to you, you may not be able to visit with family and friends, go to school or work, run errands, or take part in other routine daily activities. You may become dependent on others for help.

Agoraphobia also can lead to:

- Depression.
- Alcohol or drug misuse.
- Suicidal thoughts and behavior.

Looking forward to your thoughts on this series.

Remember! Your mind is beautiful and worth protecting

28/12/2023

Season Greetings Beautiful Minds and welcome back.

Treatment options is the focus of today's discussion.

Before commencement of treatment, it's important to first make the actual diagnosis of Agoraphobia.

Agoraphobia is diagnosed based on:

- Symptoms.
- In-depth interview with your mental health doctor.
- Physical exam to rule out other conditions that could be causing your symptoms.

Once the diagnosis is confirmed, treatment of agoraphobia usually includes both psychotherapy and medications.

Psychotherapy involves working with a therapist to set goals and learn practical skills to reduce the anxiety symptoms. Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most effective form of talk therapy for anxiety disorders, including agoraphobia.

Certain types of antidepressants are often used to treat agoraphobia. It may take some time, but treatment can help you get better.

Remember! Your mind is beautiful and worth protecting.

27/12/2023

Compliments of the season beautiful minds and welcome back.

Recognizing symptoms of Agoraphobia is the focus for today.

Typical agoraphobia symptoms include fear of:

- Leaving home alone.
- Crowds or waiting in line.
- Enclosed spaces, such as movie theaters, elevators or small stores.
- Open spaces, such as parking lots, bridges or malls.
- Using public transportation, such as a bus, plane or train.

These situations cause anxiety because you fear you won't be able to escape or find help if you start to feel panicked. Or you may fear having other disabling or embarrassing symptoms, such as dizziness, fainting, falling or diarrhea.

More so:

- Your fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual danger of the situation.
- You avoid the situation, you need a companion to go with you, or you endure the situation but are extremely upset.
- You have major distress or problems with social situations, work or other areas in your life because of the fear, anxiety or avoidance.
- Your fear and avoidance usually lasts six months or longer.

Looking forward to your thoughts.

Remember! Your mind is beautiful and worth protecting.

26/12/2023

Merry Christmas Beautiful Minds and welcome back.

We'll continue our discussion with causes and risk factors for Agoraphobia.

Biology (including health conditions and genetics) personality, stress and learning experiences may all play a role in the development of agoraphobia.

Risk factors for agoraphobia include:
- Having panic disorder or other excessive fear reactions, called phobias.
- Responding to panic attacks with too much fear and avoidance.
- Experiencing stressful life events, such as abuse, the death of a parent or being attacked.
- Having an anxious or nervous personality.
- Having a blood relative with agoraphobia.

Agoraphobia can begin in childhood, but usually starts in the late teen or early adult years; usually before age 35. But older adults also can develop it. Females are diagnosed with agoraphobia more often than males are.

Looking forward to your thoughts.

Remember! Your mind is beautiful and worth protecting.

26/12/2023

Merry Christmas Beautiful Minds and welcome to our last mini series for the year.

So, what's Agoraphobia?

Agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder. Agoraphobia involves fearing and avoiding places or situations that might cause panic and feelings of being trapped, helpless or embarrassed. You may fear an actual or upcoming situation. For example, you may fear using public transportation, being in open or enclosed spaces, standing in line, or being in a crowd.

The anxiety is caused by fear that there's no easy way to escape or get help if the anxiety gets overwhelming. You may avoid situations because of fears such as getting lost, falling, or having diarrhea and not being able to get to a bathroom. Most people who have agoraphobia develop it after having one or more panic attacks, causing them to worry about having another attack. They then avoid the places where it may happen again.

Agoraphobia often results in having a hard time feeling safe in any public place, especially where crowds gather and in locations that are not familiar. You may feel that you need a companion, such as a family member or friend, to go with you to public places. The fear can be so overwhelming that you may feel you can't leave your home.

What's your thought on this topic?

Remember! Your mind is beautiful and worth protecting.

25/12/2023

Merry Christmas Beautiful Minds!

24/12/2023

Season Greetings Beautiful Minds and welcome to the last mini series for 2023. I look forward to having you. God bless!

24/12/2023

Season Greetings Beautiful Minds and welcome back as we conclude our discussion on delusional disorders.

We'll draw the curtains on this series with preventing delusional disorders.

There’s no known way to prevent delusional disorder. However, early diagnosis and treatment can help decrease the disruption to the person’s life, family and friendships.

Delusional disorder doesn’t usually significantly affect a person’s daily functioning, but the severity of the delusion may gradually get worse. Most people with delusional disorder can remain employed as long as their work doesn’t involve things related to their delusions.

The prognosis of delusional disorder is better if the person sticks to their treatment plan

Remember! Your mind is beautiful and worth protecting.

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