Veronika Denner felt like she was dying. She had blood in her stool, an overactive bladder and such severe, debilitating pain that she compared it to barbed wire being cinched around her diaphragm, ...

There is a complex interrelationship between mental disorders and physical diseases such that, in some cases, mental disorders predict the later onset of physical disease and vice versa, new research ...

Chronic physical illness is psychologically draining to those experiencing it, and psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety are more common amongst such individuals, who are frequently ...

Living with a chronic medical condition is a circumstance that is very close to my own heart. I have lived with a chronic illness my entire adult life, and I'm not alone. According to the Centers for ...

Many of us learn as children to diminish others in our beliefs or actions. This may be driven by low self-esteem, childhood trauma, being bullied, a lack of empathy or feelings of rejection or ...