Anxiety

The Science of Aromatherapy’s Stress Reducing Effects

The term “aromatherapy” usually conjures up pleasant smelling day spa treatments, or often some seemingly frivolous aromatic application. While it’s been the case for some time that researchers have been investigating many medical uses of essential oils: anti-viral, anticancer etc, there are very few studies that look at the effects of inhaling essential oils. There’s a few showing lowered aggression and less stress in mice and rats, yet almost no research performed with human subjects. From the scientific research, it is clear that essential oils are real medicine, with real medical applications, but does their inhalation for the effect of the scent have valid scientific backing?

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Successful Approaches To Treatment For Social Anxiety Disorder

Before determining the best social anxiety disorder treatments, you first need a good idea of what a social anxiety disorder is in the first place. Simply defined, it involves experiencing intense fear in social situations. Sometimes the person fears interacting with other people, but those with the disorder are also usually afraid of being judged negatively by others, or of being humiliated or looking foolish in front of other people. If the fear causes severe physical symptoms or panic attacks, or makes it impossible to function in some areas of life, then the person has one of the social phobias.

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