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Books/Media 11.07.2022

Productive, Successful YOU!: End Procrastination by Making Anxiety Work for You Rather Than Against You

Author

Jenny Yip, PsyD, ABPP

Publisher

Strategic Cognitive Behavioral Institute Book

Year of Publication/Release

2013

Blog post 11.05.2022

Thriving in Friendships When You Have OCD

Friends are the people we keep in our lives by choice and not because of familial bonds, work contracts, or other circumstances. However, for those with the disorder, finding and nurturing friendships while in the thick of symptoms can be just as difficult.

Blog post 11.03.2022

Mindful Meditation Works for Everyone

Meditation isn't just for yogis, mindful meditation is important for everyone to practice, and everyone can do it. Maybe you've tried it once and didn't feel like it went well—don't throw in the towel just yet. Meditation is simple and anybody can be successful at it.

Blaise Dismer

Blaise Dismer, M.S.W. practices at Saint Simons Psychiatry in Georgia. An anxiety specialist, he is currently working toward his teaching certificate in Mindfulness Meditation through Sounds True and U.C. Berkeley.

Personal Story 11.02.2022

What I Learned from Working in a Behavioral Health Hospital

I found that treating the person, talking to the person, and seeing the person was the best and most effective way to deliver care. They were people, not merely patients.

Kevin Foss, MFT

Kevin Foss, MFT, is a licensed therapist specializing in OCD and anxiety related disorders, and is the founder of the California OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center in Fullerton, California.

Julie DiMatteo, PhD, ABPP

Dr. Julie DiMatteo is a licensed clinical psychologist board certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).

Personal Story 10.27.2022

Ending the Silence of Quiet Suffering

For six weeks, I quietly suffered. I just couldn’t let anyone know what I was going through. I had learned from an early age that “I was just too emotional” and “had nothing to be sad about.”

Amy Mariaskin, PhD

Amy Mariaskin, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and founding director of the Nashville OCD and Anxiety Treatment Center in Brentwood, TN. She works with individuals with OCD, anxiety, and OC spectrum disorders across the lifespan, providing both individual and group treatment.

Sarah Zabel

Sarah Zabel retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2018 as a major general and embarked on a new career as a science writer. She currently works from her home in Bayview, Idaho.

Blog post 10.25.2022

This Just In: Antidepressants Don’t Work Anymore

Please note that this is an opinion piece by an ADAA colleague member -- "...the conclusion of a study published in Molecular Psychiatry in July 2022 – that there is “no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations” – is not surprising, or even new. What is surprising is that popular media is interpreting the study’s conclusions to say that if serotonin is not the cause of depression, then antidepressants don’t work. Huh?

O'Shan Gadsden, PhD

Psychology Department Chair at Hampton University. Dr. Gadsden is a licensed psychology associate and a culturally competent insight-oriented psychotherapist with over 17 years of experience in providing therapy to individuals, couples, and families. He earned his Ph.D.