Disorders Articles

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• The Media and Mental Illness: The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous
  When portraying mental illness and psychotherapy, the media tends to get it wrong -- ...
• Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity
  Dr. K. Elan Jung’s Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity is a strong reference, written for a wide audience including physicians, therapists, victims and the general layperson.  Dr. Jung is a practicing psychiatrist who has ...
• Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia
  Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...
• ADHD and Menopause: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do
  It’s hard enough having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But if you’re a woman ...
• Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies
  Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies by Alberto M. Bursztyn is the latest edition to the “Making Sense of Psychology” series. This series concerns itself with the psychological problems and challenges in the lives of today’s ...
• The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder
  Having a special interest in how diet & physical activity help ease the symptoms of mood disorders, I was excited to review Stephanie Marohn’s book The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder.  This review covers ...
• How To Change Your Drinking: A Harm Reduction Guide To Alcohol
  Substance misuse is one of the most common and widely discussed topics within the mental health community, as both clients and professionals debate the most effective ways to deal with addictions and their causes. In the ...
• Fat People
  For his book Fat People, Bill Schubart has created and gathered a collection of stories that will make you rethink your relationship with food. Schubart is smart, sensitive and unnervingly keen at noticing details.  The ...
• Recognizing and Dealing with Stress
  Stress is often defined as a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset the balance of things ...
• Natural Remedies for Dealing with Stress
  Many Americans today are under huge amounts of stress. With the decline of the economy, many find themselves dealing with ...
• The Empty Chair at the Holiday Table
  Getting ready for the first Thanksgiving after David died was very, very hard. The loss of my husband’s brother ...
• When ADHD and Anxiety Occur Together
  It's not uncommon for individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to struggle with anxiety, whether it’s several symptoms or a ...
• Accepting and Overcoming Anxiety
  So there you are in the middle of a business meeting, Wal-Mart, a shopping mall, your kids’ school play, and out of nowhere, ...
• Alternative Treatments for Depression
  There are a wide range of alternative treatments for depression. Before seeking out a mental health professional or talking to their doctor, a ...
• Dispelling Myths about Dissociative Identity Disorder
  Dissociative identity disorder (DID), known previously as multiple personality disorder, is not a real disorder. At least, that’s what you ...
• Length of Stay for Residential OCD Treatment
  Toward the end of his freshman year of college, my son Dan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was so severe that he ...
• OCD and ADHD: Is There a Connection?
  By the end of his freshman year in college, my son Dan’s obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was so severe that he ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• Is Using Technology To Treat OCD a Good Idea?
  For people who are suffering for any reason, the Internet can offer ready-made support. Those with OCD, for ...
• Seeking Drug and Alcohol Treatment for Employees
  [caption id="attachment_9713" align="alignright" width="211" caption="Credit: PHILIP LEE HARVEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY"][/caption]If you currently know of or have known of an employee who ...
• The Emotional Vulnerability of Borderline Personality Disorder
  Imagine you have a cut. The skin around your cut heals. But it heals all wrong. The scarred tissue ...
• October is Domestic Violence Month
  Domestic violence remains a huge and largely hidden problem. The purple ribbons you may have seen recently on car bumpers and people’s ...
• The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  A shaky self-confidence or relentless self-doubt stops many people from pursuing their passions. A fear of failure gnaws at them, leaving them at a standstill and unsatisfied with their lives. If you know what I’m ...
• 5 Ideas for Boosting Your Energy When Depression Strikes
  Depression is as much a somatic (physical) disorder as it is a psychological one. Energy loss is a ...
• Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery
  From the very first paragraph of Whitney Robinson's first book, Demons in the Age of Light: A Memoir of Psychosis and Recovery, her way with words is not only apparent, but glaringly so.  Reading further, ...