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[20 Mar 2007 | No Comment | ]

If I am not on “disability” would the county consider these as disabilities?

I have been diagnosed as having:
Generalized anxiety disorder
Depression
Bi-Polar II or Bi-Polar NOS
Asperger Syndrome (suggested by more than one professional that I probably do have this, but nothing documented as having A.S.).
Since I am NOT on state disability or on SSDI, would the county I live in consider me “disabled”? I am applying for General Relief and food stamps.
Thanks.

Food stamps is a federal program and is based on income, not disability. The same is usually the …

Anxiety Attacks »

[21 Jul 2006 | No Comment | ]

Physiology Of Anxiety
Anxiety is part of what is called fight-or-flight response, which is generated by the sympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system along with the parasympathetic nervous system forms the autonomic nervous system. The actions from the autonomic nervous system are automatic and not under our conscious control.
The sympathetic nervous system activates the fight-or-flight response, while the parasympathetic nervous system restores the body to normal mode. While one is responsible to rev up, the other is responsible to hit the breaks.
The fight-or-flight response is a natural protection of the …