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Talk Therapy: How Honest Are You?

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

I pay my therapist $120 every other week. I should, theoretically, feel like I can tell her anything. But I don't. Because I want her to ...

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Getting Therapy When There’s No Money

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I can't help but mention this article in The New York Times about how to get mental health care when you have no insurance or for some reason your have minimal coverage for mental health ...

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Surviving the Suicide of Someone You Love

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

My brother's childhood best friend committed suicide. I was 16 years old at the time, Mark (not his real name) was 21. Mark's parents were close friends of my parents; we played together as little ...

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2009 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy Recommendations

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this symposium every year is to tackle a particular issue in ...

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Am I Depressed or Just Deep?

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

I spent my adolescence and teenage years obsessing about this question: Am I depressed or just deep? When I was nine, I figured that I was a ...

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The Carter Center’s Mental Health Program

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Last week while attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting ...

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In Honor of Veterans, 2009

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

This Veterans Day, as we honor the sacrifices made by soldiers who've served and those who continue to do so, we mark ...

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Group Therapy for Binge Eating

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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

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The Fear of Relapse: 5 Cognitive Tools

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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 ...

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What Health Care Reform Means for Mental Health

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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 ...

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Research-Backed Online Mental Health Interventions

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

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

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5 Ways to Tackle Perfectionism

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

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 ...

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