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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
Understanding Anxiety and Depression for LGBTQ People
Updated October 2020
Three Steps to Being Your Own Compassionate Coach when OCD Keeps You Stuck
7 Tips on Showing Up When a Loved One is Undergoing Gender Transition
How to Build Shame Resilience
Are the Kids Really Alright? Troubling Headlines, Teenage Girls, and Declining Mental Health
An Update on LGBTQ Youth’s Mental Health
An Update on LGBTQ Youth’s Mental Health (Professionals)
A To-Do List for White Psychologists (and other Anti-Racist Allies) in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent increased awareness of systemic racism have left me, a white psychologist, at a loss for words. I wanted to write a post for other anti-racist allies who are also struggling to voice and act in increasingly anti-racist ways both personally and professionally.
Transgender OCD: A New Theme Following a Familiar Pattern
In the early 2000s, patients started reporting a new worry to their OCD therapists: what if I’m gay? This thought was often prefaced by patients declaring that they weren’t homophobic, but the fear was still there. The theme was dubbed homosexual OCD or HOCD.
Anxiety and Depression in Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals
People who identify as sexual (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer) or gender (i.e., transgender, genderqueer, non-binary) minorities have similar symptoms of anxiety and depression as heterosexual and cisgender (non-transgender) individuals.
