anxiety

Prof. Jim Lucey on Today with Sean O'Rourke RTE Radio 1 16/12/2016 [Podcast]

Benzodiazepines are sedative drugs.  They can provide rapid symptomatic relief from acute anxiety states.  They form useful parts of the treatment of epileptic seizures and they are exceptionally valuable within anesthesia.  However, their use in the treatment of an anxiety disorder has become very problematic.

Over the last few weeks, we have looked at what perfectionism is and how it contributes to the development and maintenance of problems.

Now, we look at:

In part one of our three part series on Striving for Perfectionism; we looked at what is perfectionism and the main differences between a healthy pursuit of excellence and unhelpful perfectionism. This week we ask "how does perfectionism keep problems going?"

As described before, unhealthy perfectionism involves

We would like to introduce you to a three part series on perfectionism. Within this series, we will ask what is perfectionism? How does perfectionism keep problems going? And how can CBT help? 

Dr Michael McDonough, Consultant Psychiatrist and head of our Anxiety Disorders Service recently spoke about panic attacks on RTÉ Radio 1's John Murray Show. If you missed the show, you can listen to it here or you can read Dr McDonough’s blog below.