Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s easy to think of courage as something you need for major life events, like cross-country moves or relationship breakups. But ...

My friend Karen called me up recently because she was upset about an argument she’d had with her husband, Mark. They’d both had a long day at work and when he told her he was too tired to do the ...

When someone casually tells a person with a real phobia to "just face your fears," it's like telling someone with a broken leg to simply walk it off. This well-meaning but misguided advice ...

As a psychotherapist, anxiety disorders—especially phobias—are my favorite problem to treat. When people step into my office with a debilitating fear, I'm confident that a little hard work and a ...

Arash Javanbakht was on the back of a mule at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon when he remembered he is terrified of heights. “I could see my death at the bottom,” said Javanbakht, a psychiatrist and ...