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Personal Story
10.19.2021
A Lifting Community Aligns to Promote Mental Health
Bodybuilding.com has partnered with the ADAA to build an entire series of articles and videos dedicated to bringing awareness to anxiety and depression among athletes.
Personal Story
10.19.2021
Creative Struggles
Allowing myself to open up to a professional really helped flush out everything I felt inside. For a while I thought sulking in my own thoughts would be healthy but you end up drowning. You need to give yourself to someone who can help correct the way you look at the world.
Personal Story
10.18.2021
Changing the Future of Mental Health and Athletics
A panic attack derailed baseball player China McCarney's plans for competition. Years later, he's learned how to cope with his anxiety and is inspiring athletes around the world to do the same.
Blog post
10.18.2021
Depression Across the Lifespan: Depression—and its Treatments—are Different for Each Life Stage
The signs of depression can look different for everyone.
Personal Story
10.15.2021
A Mindful Approach to Anxiety
About the author: As an anxious mom in search of calm, Melissa Lewis-Duarte, Ph.D. writes about living with anxiety and mindfulness-based behavioral change in real life.
Blog post
10.12.2021
The Power of Saying, “Whatever"
I’m a psychologist who treats OCD and Anxiety Disorders. When my patients get to a point in treatment when they shrug their shoulders and say to me, “Yeah, I had an intrusive thought, but ‘Whatever”, I know we have hit a home run.
Blog post
10.12.2021
Talking About Race in Therapy: How White Psychologists Can Respond to Clients
Read more on the strategies psychologists can use to discuss race in therapeutic spaces from ADAA Members Erika Vivyan, PhD and Katherine Martinez, PsyD.
Blog post
10.12.2021
Active Witnessing: Guiding Kids of All Ages To Do the Right Thing
When our family (KM) recently moved, my children discovered that in each of their new schools’ peers were using racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks, something they had not previously experienced. My kids were woefully unprepared - and it turns out this is not unusual.
Personal Story
10.12.2021
Mariposa
Depression and I have had a rocky, complicated relationship. Depression ran my life for many years. Depression still shows up unannounced and usually with no warning or reason, but I am now more or less at peace with where we stand. I have accepted that it is not IF Depression will come back into my life, it is WHEN.
