How Does Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Help with Depression?
How Does Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Help with Depression? Depression is a serious, widespread, and growing health issue. About one in six adults experience major depressive disorder in their l [...]
Take These Steps to Cope with Depression
We all experience feelings of sadness and grief from time to time, but major depressive disorder is a diagnosable and serious medical condition. Currently, one in six adults are affected by depress [...]
Same Argument Over and Over? Could Automatic Responses be Causing It?
Why do you suppose Groundhog Day remains a popular movie, some 23 years after its release? I’d suggest it has to do with the recognition of how repetitive patterns and automatic responses can [...]
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
This psychological intervention blends two complementary approaches: acceptance and mindfulness strategies commitment and behavior change strategies The goal of such a combination is psychological fle [...]
Ways to Curb Mania and Hypomania for Bipolar Disorder
This is an excellent blog post for those of you who are working to manage Bipolar disorder, particularly the manic or hypomanic ups that accompanythe depressive lows. http://www.everydayhealth.com/col [...]
Anger Management Meditation: How Mindfulness Helps Control Anger
What does it mean to you when you say, “I’m angry”? To be blunt, the possibilities are limitless. Anger is an emotion and thus, subject to an infinite number of ever-evolving vari [...]
How Does a Traumatic Experience Lead to PTSD?
The word is literally part of the disorder’s name””post-traumatic stress disorder””so obviously, undergoing a traumatic experience plays a major role in PTSD. Understanding that r [...]
Pet-C: Fall in Love Using Your Heart, Stay Together Using Your Brain
In popular culture, we’re raised on romantic comedies, love ballads, and the perpetual search for a soulmate. With our hearts on our sleeves, we rush forward into the kind of love we’ve [...]
Understanding Bipolar Disorder: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatments
Understanding Bipolar Disorder: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment This is a complex condition, so let’s open with some basics. The term bipolar disorderdoes not refer to the usual “ups and [...]
Relaxation Exercises and Breathing Techniques to Help with Anxiety
Anxiety. The word itself can make one experience its symptoms. If this sounds familiar to you, you’re not alone. Over 18 percent of U.S. adults report experiencing at least a 12-month prevale [...]
7 Common Symptoms of Clinical Depression
7 Common Symptoms of Clinical Depression Today, mental illnesses are at last beginning to be recognized for what they truly are: illnesses. Neither having nor seeking help for clinical depression s [...]
Boundary Basics
Most of us are familiar with the term “boundaries”. We may speak about people having “boundary issues” or “bad boundaries”, but what are they exactly? Boundaries [...]
Treat Depression with Nutritional Supplements
In what should come as a surprise to few, the modern industrial food production systems fails to provide adequate nutritional support for your brain’s basic functioning, including mood regula [...]
Love People, Not Pleasure
This NY times article articulates much of what I've come recognize about the counterintuitive problem of pursuing pleasure as a way to avoid unhappiness. What do you think? [...]
Getting Grief Right
I loved reading this article from a very competent grief therapist in this ongoing New York Times series on therapy: “Getting Grief Right” Grief is not something that needs to unfold in [...]
Understanding the Origins of Perfectionism
One of the more insidious effects ofearly childhood difficulty is perfectionism.Perfectionism takes many forms, but hinges on unrealistic or unattainable ideals for ourselves, others, and the world [...]