Binge eating disorder is characterized by a person having frequent episodes of eating what others would consider an abnormally large amount of food, while ...

A reader recently wrote to me about her overwhelming fear of relapse. She said, "I'm struggling now with it, obsessing over it, and I'm ...

Now that it looks like some form of health care reform will be passed this year -- barring a catastrophe like Joe Lieberman -- we have some idea of how the eventual act will affect ...

So the other week I attended and presented at the First International e-Mental Health Summit 2009 in Amsterdam and already discussed ...

This week I have the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Russell, who writes the fantastic blog, "Practice Makes Imperfect." Since we talk about perfectionism a lot on Beyond ...

This is one of my earliest videos but one of my favorites. It is my version of the Zoloft commercial, where the egg chases the butterfly, until he (the egg) poops out. Then, after he takes his meds, he's back catching butterflies again. Except that I don't have Pfizer's budget, and I'm somewhat technologically challenged. And no, I don't think meds are the cure all. So, in the spirit of October, I present to you (maybe Pfizer will pay me millions to write their next commercial?) ... Depression Is Like a Pumpkin. Click through to view the video...

On October 6, 2009, the popular television show Oprah aired a program about a 7 ...

Ever since I was discharged from the inpatient psychiatric program at Johns Hopkins, I have kept a mood journal where I daily ...

"Mental illness is just part of the human condition," Glenn Close said Oct. 21 on "Good Morning America." Halleluia! A Hollywood response to all ...

As promised, this is one in a series of posts I'll write about online interventions that help treat ...

One of the classic books on how to establish better personal boundaries is "Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, To Take ...

Last week, I had the honor of attending and presenting at the first international e-Mental Health Summit for 2009, ...