9 tests for guys
Real men go for their medical tests. Here's what they are and when to go for them.
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Depression
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Post Natal Depression
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Anxiety disorders
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), is as its name suggests an anxiety disorder, and is also known as social phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear resulting in a conscious avoidance
Fear or phobia?
Do you have an intense fear for animals, heights, blood, injections, planes? Would you rather climb ten flights than to get into a lift? If so, you may be suffering from a phobia.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder characterised by obsessions and compulsions.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
People with generalised anxiety disorder experience more than day-to-day anxiety. Worries are excessive, unrealistic, chronic and relentless.
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) arises as an immediate, delayed and/or protracted response to a traumatic or stressful event.
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is characterised by the occurrence of repeated panic attacks, which last anything from a few seconds to a few minutes, but which are experienced as extremely frightening and uncomfortable.
Anxiety disorders
Everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious – the butterflies in your stomach before a first date, the tension you feel when someone important to you is angry with you
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