Depression can be a touchy subject. Controversy enshrouds almost every aspect of the disease, from what causes it, to whether the standard treatments for it actually do any good, to whether it’s even a real thing. The answer to that last one, of course, is that if you’re feeling it, it’s real. And while it’s [...]
January 16, 2010 – 7:42 pm
Most of the time pain is temporary and therefore tolerable. Scrapes, cuts, sprained ankles, bruises – most people can easily deal with these superficial, trivial injuries because we understand them and know that in time the pain will subside. Even broken bones and many surgeries can be easily treated with some pain medicine and time [...]
January 12, 2009 – 4:50 pm
I have to assume having a dog is kinda like having a kid. They eat, sleep, pee and yup…poop. Unfortunately, like kids, dogs are severely lacking in the area of cleaning up after themselves. So it falls to us. We should be happy to do it considering all the joy and pleasure we derive from [...]
September 1, 2006 – 11:35 pm
You probably didn’t know this, but you can actually get rid of mental illness. Well, actually, it depends on the particular illness, but I’m pretty well versed in the psycho-babble concerning anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. (Natasha wrote the depression article.) Been there, done it. I’m still having panic attacks some seven years after a [...]
August 22, 2006 – 8:40 pm
I’ve been living with an anxiety disorder ever since the age of 19, when I had my first panic attack. Since then I’ve learned how to deal with and how to get rid of anxiety, both the common anxieties of everyday life, and the overwhelming anxieties that leave me lying in bed, awake, gasping for [...]
August 15, 2006 – 4:07 pm
Since I suffer from panic attacks and make no attempt to hide the fact, a lot of people ask me: what are panic attacks and how do you get rid of a panic attack? how do you stop a panic attack? Well, first I’ll tell you that some people think a panic attack (also known [...]
August 14, 2006 – 7:32 pm
How to get rid of stress is not an easy do-it-yourself guide to write. It’s not easy to reduce stress because reducing stress would imply knowing that stress is there, but stress is that scentless, tasteless poison you don’t know you’ve ingested too much of until you start to see the symptoms–really a cocktail of [...]
August 13, 2006 – 6:35 pm
I’ve recently discovered the joys of the Yahoo! Answers program, and I think there’s some potential here to keep How to Get Rid of Things advice in the public eye. I signed up a couple of weeks ago, and not too long ago I was picked as a best answer for the service they offer [...]