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• Not Otherwise Specified: Anxiety & the Work of Dr. Robert Hudak
  Southwest Pennsylvania National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) held its annual conference at the beginning of ...
• Everyday Heroes: Royce White and Anxiety
  Houston Rockets rookie Royce White is a star in more ways than one. White says he is like everyone else. He ...
• OCD and the Need for Reassurance
  One of the most common manifestations of obsessive-compulsive disorder is ...
• Is Liking Your Therapist Enough?
  When my son Dan’s self-diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was confirmed by his longtime pediatrician, the doctor suggested ...
• Good Therapy for OCD
  With the help of the Internet, my son Dan correctly diagnosed himself with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at the age of 17. After his ...
• When You Can’t Afford Psychotherapy
  You know you’re in trouble. Maybe you’ve been depressed for what seems like ages. You can’t get motivated to do things. You ...
• The Healing Power of the Breath
  Picture yourself in one or more of these scenarios: You find yourself unable to cope with stress; your anxiety level is climbing unabated; you cannot seem to get a good night's sleep; or you are ...
• OCD, Guilt and Religion
  "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…." ~ Proverbs 23:7 Grace had grown up in a religious home. She ...
• Blind Devotion: Survival on the Front Lines of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction
  It would have been easy for Sharlene Prinsen to portray herself as a heroic martyr, or else as an innocent, one-dimensional victim. Yet in the memoir that centers on her marriage to a combat veteran ...
• Shame: The Core of Addiction and Codependency
  Shame is so painful to the psyche that most people will do anything to avoid it, even though it’s a ...
• When to Take Time Out from College
  The semester has barely started and some students are already wondering whether they should ...
• When Fantasy Crosses the Line
  Fantasizing about another person may seem like a harmless indulgence, but it actually draws us closer to ...
• Freeing Yourself from Anxiety: The 4-Step Plan to Overcome Worry and Create the Life You Want
  "Freeing Yourself from Anxiety" is filled with practical, reassuring, and even fun strategies to help anyone deal with anxiety. What is anxiety? Psychologist Tamar E. Chansky defines it as “the first reaction of a sensitive system ...
• Reiki Healing and Mental Health: What the Research Shows
  Healing touch therapies, the best known being Reiki (pronounced RAY-key), are ancient practices in ...
• The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Thirty Truths About Fear and Courage
  “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look at fear in the face,” said First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. “You must do the thing in which you think ...
• 4 of the Biggest Barriers in Bipolar Disorder
  People with bipolar disorder can face many challenges -- from the illness’s fluctuating feelings to its destructive effects ...
• Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and Finally Let the Sunshine In
  In Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and—Finally—Let the Sunshine In, Todd Patkin takes us through his life, outlining the troubles, as well as fortunes, he has had along the way. Throughout ...
• Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
  Daniel Smith describes himself as anxiety personified in his absorbing and humorous memoir Monkey Mind. Smith was anxious from birth. Anxiety lurked in his genes. Both his mother and father suffered from severe anxiety: His ...
• Therapists Spill: The Best Ways to Shrink Stress & Anxiety
  Stress is a reality for all of us. ...
• Joblessness and Symbolic Loss
  We live in a stressful society. We need to keep up with the hustle and bustle of everyday, as ...
• What OCD Feels Like: Being Absolutely Uncertain
  Mike's thoughts were driving him “crazy.” One thought would lead him into another and another. His anxiety would ...
• 5 Ways to Solve All Your Problems
  Got a problem? Who doesn’t? It might help to know there are five ways, ...
• The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook
  In 2008, Margaret Wehrenberg published The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques:  Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Anxious and What You Can Do to Change it.  Now a workbook has been released to accompany the ...
• Sensitive Children Who Develop Significant Anxiety
  In recent months I happened to work with a number of elementary-age children who had developed ...
• Overcoming the Fear of Making Mistakes
  “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” This is a famous ...