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From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, anxiety is an adaptive mechanism. If you are a zebra at a watering hole and the grass moves, you had better run like hell. Ninety-nine times out of hundred it will just be the wind; the one time it is a lion and you don’t run you will have [...]
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Why should people dying of cancer have all the fun? Heart patients have anxiety and depression too… Here is an idea for research — give folks psilocybin after a heart attack and see if it reduces the trauma….. I would bet that would, actually…. Sign me up for after my next heart attack… By Thomas [...]
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The following article is an excellent review of the original studies involving depression, anxiety and prognosis after a heart attack. (Note, however, that it is from 2003.) The conclusion of the article bears repeating: “Treating symptoms of anxiety and depression in MI patients is an abiding imperative.” Anxiety, depression, and prognosis after myocardial infarction Is [...]
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This is the most thorough review article I have seen on psychological interventions after heart events. One of the interesting findings was that it was more effective to have interventions two months after the event rather than immediately. According to this article, fewer than 50% of people who have a cardiac event (which was not [...]
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Anxiety ridden heart patients face higher death risk July 6, 2010 Sify News Does anxiety expose heart patients to higher risk of stroke, heart failure and death? The answer is yes, of course, but researchers in the Netherlands have now quantified the risk and found that anxiety affects 24 percent to 31 percent of such [...]
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