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Continue reading →: What Causes the Feeling of ‘Sleep Demons’? A Psychological & Medical Perspective
For millennia, humanity has been tormented by the phenomenon known as “sleep demons,” basically that dreadful feeling of being awake yet immobile, and sometimes accompanied by terrifying hallucinations. This phenomenon lies at a confluence of psychology, biology, and culture and is called sleep paralysis or is also considered a sleep…
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Continue reading →: ICD-10 Coding for Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Panic Attacks
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and how does it overlap with panic Panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder have a degree of co-morbidity. For at least six months, patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have suffered continuous and excessive anxiety over common occurrences in life. This anxiety is sometimes…
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Continue reading →: Agoraphobia and Its ICD-10 Code: A Mental Health Overview
This is a very complicated disease of anxiety that can make life very hard, most probably making a person feel all alone and anxious. Being familiar not only with its telltale signs but also with its classification in the ICD-10 and available treatment modalities should be on any agoraphobic patient’s…
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Continue reading →: Symptoms & Management of Panic Disorder Without Agoraphobia (ICD-10)
If you want to know about symptoms and management of panic disorder, you should first know about what panic disorder is, how it works, what triggers it, and how to manage it. Panic disorder can be complex and, therefore, with the broader perspective of mental health, most times, is not…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the F40.10 Diagnosis Code: A Simple Guide to Social Phobia
F40.10 Diagnosis Code, or social phobia, is a serious mental disorder that makes day-to-day living, relationships, and self-esteem challenging. This illness, with the ICD-10 code F40.10, is characterized by an excessive fear of being stared at by others. This article describes in detail what it is, what the signs are,…