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10.25.2023
5 Tips for How to Know If an Anxiety Therapist Is the Right Fit for You
Choosing a therapist can be an overwhelming decision: there are so many therapists out there, how can you be sure you are choosing someone who is the right fit for you?
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10.23.2023
Inferential Confusion: A New Treatment Target for OCD
The normal reasoning process is what we use throughout our day. It guides us to make inferences about possibility based on trust in our senses and selves. We don’t reason that the microwave is failing and causing a fire unless we smell smoke or see sparks or flames.
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10.15.2023
Trusting Yourself Amongst Pedophilic Obsessions
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is often misunderstood in our shared culture. Some people think of people with OCD as someone risky, potentially dangerous, or as someone with quirky personality traits.
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10.12.2023
Compulsions – They Aren’t Always What They Seem
Whether we hear the term from a client, another provider, or our own classification of someone’s symptoms, “compulsions” tend carry with them some level of assumption – that this might just be OCD.
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10.04.2023
The Role of Magical Thinking in OCD
Have you ever knocked on wood to ward off bad luck? If so, you’ve experienced magical thinking.
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09.27.2023
How to Talk About Suicide, from a Psychologist Who Lost a Loved One
It can be difficult to talk about suicide. It’s a taboo topic, fraught with discomfort. Couple that with some harmful misunderstandings and our tendency, as a society, to shy away from hard conversations, and it’s no wonder that you may struggle to find the right words.
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09.26.2023
Anxiety Can Often be a Drag on Creativity, Upending the Trope of the Tortured Artist
In the U.S., anxiety disorders affect about one-third of the population. So it’s no surprise that a good number of artists and writers also suffer from anxiety and depression.
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09.26.2023
How Sensory Processing Impacts OCD
When an individual grapples with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), their brain perceives otherwise neutral situations, objects, or individuals as potential threats.
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09.19.2023
How Do I Love Myself When I’m at War with My Mind?
My question to my fellow therapists who treat women with OCD is this: “How can we teach women to whole heartedly love themselves, when a mind that creates negative, intrusive, and terrifying thoughts is such a large part of us?”
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09.12.2023
New ADAA Member Books! Fall 2023
Check out our ADAA members' new books - CBT for social anxiety, an action mindset for teens and thriving with anxiety. Helpful resources to support your mental health journey.
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09.12.2023
The Case for Green Space: A Cost-Effective Mental Health Resource
City life is attractive to many people, but seemingly endless high-rises and gridlocked traffic leave little room for city dwellers to reap the benefits that green spaces may have to offer. In our rapidly urbanizing world, more than half of the global population have made their homes in cities.
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09.06.2023
If Anxiety is in my Brain, why is my Heart Pounding? A Psychiatrist Explains the Neuroscience and Physiology of Fear
In the face of a perceived threat, your body often activates a fight-or-flight response. Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach.
