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How I Learned to Stop Avoiding Life
This blog was originally posted on Ten Percent Happier on April 22, 2022 and is reprinted here with permission
5 Tips for Using Interoceptive Exposure to Face Your Fears
Is it Danger or Discomfort? Tips for Handling Panic!
Hormones, Mental Health and the Mind/Body Connection
The idea that mental illness and psychiatric disorders are afflictions that only affect the brain is now regarded as incorrect. We know that the brain controls the body and when the brain doesn’t function properly, the body suffers the consequences, and vice-versa.
Understanding Postpartum OCD and the Mother/Baby Attachment
It’s common for a new mother to experience thoughts or worries about her newborn child. I remember the worrying thoughts I had shortly after my son was born when I left for an ADAA conference for a few days.
Are the Kids Really Alright? Troubling Headlines, Teenage Girls, and Declining Mental Health
Overcoming Agoraphobia - Q&A
How to Deal with Your COVID-19 Stress, Anxiety & OCD
If you engage in some positive distracting activities during this crisis, then the flow of the day will move like a steady stream rather than a slow drip.
Finding Calm in the Middle of the COVID19 Storm When You Have Panic Attacks and Agoraphobia
What if you have the kind of anxiety that makes you feel trapped and panicky because of the stay at home orders due to COVID-19?
Treating Perinatal Mood Disorders Using Behavioral Activation Psychotherapy
Postpartum mood disorders are among the most common and debilitating mental health problems in the U.S. (1-2), with the capacity to interfere with maternal function, infant health (3-4), and maternal-infant bonds (5).
3 Things Your College Kid Must Know About Mental Health
College is typically a challenging experience with some expected highs and lows. For some it is also the time during which common mental health problems start. Because of this, you have to talk to your kid about mental health before school starts.
Panic Attack or Heart Attack?
Updated October 2020