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Watch Your Words: Why Mental Health Awareness Should be Year Round
Since 1949, May has been known as Mental Health Awareness Month. Each year, when May is over, I wonder why we’re not encouraged to be aware of our mental health all year, every year, just as we are for our so-called physical health.
Mental Health Skills for the Next Generation
General guidelines for youth mental health: Teach them compassion and gratitude
Psychotherapy is Hard Work...Why Bother?
In my first meeting with new patients who struggle with OCD and anxiety, I explain that the type of psychotherapy I practice, Exposure and Response Prevention, involves encouraging them to feel uncomfortable.
What is Depression and How Do I Know If I Have It?
Reviewed October 2020
Psychotropic Medications: What You Should Ask Your Doctor
Updated October 2020
How To Know If Your Therapist is Really Helping You
Many people wonder if their therapy is really helping them overcome their problem. Why? They often have therapists who tell them that they are doing well, but their therapist does not make clear to them what they mean by making progress.
Misophonia: Like Nails on a Chalkboard
Everyone’s skin crawls when they hear nails on a chalkboard (remember chalkboards?).
Anxious Parents Can Raise Brave Kids
Children of anxious parents are more at risk for developing anxiety disorders. This is because they will have both a genetic predisposition to developing an anxiety disorder and their environment may emphasize hyper vigilance to risk cues.
At the Intersection of Relationships and Social Media
Social Media outlets like Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram have become a behemoth daily presence in our lives.
Focal Brain Stimulation Interventions for Depression and Anxiety
Focal brain stimulation techniques are potentially powerful tools for the investigation and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. These approaches include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and deep brain stimulation among others.
Understanding the Neural Basis of Fear to Transform our Anxieties
We have all felt afraid. Fear makes some feel unique, alone, embarrassed, or ashamed, while others may become angry, defensive, or hostile. Socially, group experiences of fear of the unknown and xenophobia can drive negative political movements and mass hysteria.
The Importance of Continuing Education
Elizabeth Spencer and I just finished giving an ADAA continuing education webinar called, The Magic of CBT for Anxiety and Depression. We have found, from our workshops, that many master level clinicians have never learned the foundations of cognitive behavioral therapy.