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What I Want Someone Who ’s Overwhelmed with Their Mood Disorder to Know
You have depression, or bipolar disorder. And on some days, you feel like you’re treading water—at best. You’re tired of struggling. You’re tired of regularly feeling tired. You’re angry that your to-do list just keeps getting longer and longer. You’re angry that you have to deal with so much darkness day in and day out. Some days are just hard. Some days you feel so overwhelmed. It is on these days that you probably feel like the only person on the planet who’s struggling with persistent symptoms. Thankfully, you’re not. And thankfully, it will get better. We asked individuals who live with depress...
Source: World of Psychology - May 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Bipolar Depression Disorders General Inspiration & Hope Self-Help Mood Disorder overwhelm peer support Source Type: blogs

Body Dysmorphic Disorder ’ s Impact on Kids Today
The teenage years are hard on kids’ sense of identity and self-esteem, especially as their bodies and minds are changing and growing at a rapid rate. As a parent, it may feel like you are jumping through mental and emotional hoops, doing your best to build up your child while still maintaining discipline. However, adolescents who struggle with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) may need more help than most parents may realize. Body Dysmorphic Disorder Strikes At A Vulnerable Age Body dysmorphic disorder is a mental disorder that leads individuals to constantly think about their perceived appearance flaws. These flaws may be ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tyler Jacobson Tags: Eating Disorders Parenting Perfectionism Adolescence Body dysmorphia Body Image Teenagers Source Type: blogs

The Dangers of Cyberchondria
We’ve all done it, or at least most of us have. I know I’m certainly guilty of it. I’m talking about turning to the internet for answers to our health concerns. Just type in our (or our loved ones) symptoms and away we go. That rash we have? Turns out it could be anything from contact dermatitis to cancer. Which is it? Not sure? Well, search some more. There is always another website to check. And as many of us know, these searches can be never-ending. Excessively scouring the internet for answers to our health concerns is known as cyberchondria. One in three people, among the millions who seek health information in...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Health-related cyberchondia hyperchondria hyperchondriasis Source Type: blogs

Four Steps to Manage Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
When I was a young girl, I struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder. I believed that if I landed on a crack in the sidewalk, something terrible would happen to me, so I did my best to skip over them. I feared that if I had bad thoughts of any kind, I would go to hell. To purify myself, I would go to confession and Mass over and over again, and spend hours praying the rosary. I felt if I didn’t compliment someone, like the waitress where we were eating dinner, I would bring on the end of the world. What Is OCD? The National Institute of Mental Health defines OCD as a “common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in whi...
Source: World of Psychology - April 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic Mental Health and Wellness OCD Personal Self-Help Compulsions Intrusive Thoughts Obsessions Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Source Type: blogs

Challenges for Moms Who Have OCD
I have written before about the challenges children face, and the lessons they can learn, when one of their parents is dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In this post I’d like to focus more on moms who have OCD, and the difficulties they might deal with. I won’t be focusing on postpartum OCD, but rather on moms who have already been diagnosed with the disorder and have been living with it for a while. Some of the most common types of obsessions in OCD involve various aspects of contamination such as fear of dirt, germs, or illness. The person with OCD might fear the worst for themselves, their loved ones, or e...
Source: World of Psychology - April 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: OCD Parenting Women's Issues Compulsions Motherhood Obsessions Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Source Type: blogs

Retrain the Brain to Deal with Chronic Pain
An interesting March 2019 article discusses a new way to help teenagers to deal with certain types of chronic pain. Pain specialists estimate there are thousands of young people suffering from inexplicable pain that intensifies, traveling randomly from one part of their body to the next. It primarily affects girls, though some boys also experience this type of pain. Some doctors call it “amplified pain” and this term acts as a catch-all for a variety of diagnoses which are not yet well understood, particularly in children. For most of these children, the pain can’t be explained entirely by a current injury or in...
Source: World of Psychology - April 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Brain and Behavior Health-related Chronic Pain Neuroscience Source Type: blogs

OCD and Autism
I have written before about atypical presentations of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children, where I discuss how the symptoms of OCD are sometimes confused with autism, schizophrenia, and even Bipolar Disorder. I’ve also written about how diagnosing these various conditions can be difficult, as symptoms of each one often overlap. Sometimes it is easy to forget that we are talking about a whole person’s state of being, not just a specific diagnosis. No doubt people have manifested symptoms of these various illnesses long before the disorders were differentiated by names. Still, a proper diagnosis is important to mo...
Source: World of Psychology - March 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Autism Children and Teens OCD Research anxiety Autism Spectrum Compulsions Obsessions Source Type: blogs

Training Your Mind with Meditation
You're reading Training Your Mind with Meditation, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. “Meditation is a science, the systematic process of training the mind.” – John Yates, Ph.D. By sophomore year of high school, it had become clear that my mind was completely out of control. After a series of car crashes resulting from my own distraction and declining grades in school, I was promptly diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and prescribed several medications. This came on top of...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: liammccl Tags: featured meditation self improvement adhd health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs

High functioning anxiety
Editor's note:Clinically, I usually find that this kind of high functioning anxiety is related to perfectionism which is also the root of OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. People with high functioning anxiety also experience depression, feeling overhwelmed, and suicidal ideas. As mentioned, because of the exceptional performance of the person, few people know or would guess at the anguish this perfectionism causes. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

OCD Treatment: More Important Than School or Outside Activities?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an often misunderstood and complicated illness. It can latch on to anything that is important to us, and has the potential to totally devastate lives. Still, so many people believe it is nothing more than excessive hand washing and the desire to keep things tidy. This could not be further from the truth. For the purpose of this post, I’ll be referring specifically to OCD in children. When OCD makes an appearance in a family, it often brings about fear and confusion. For one thing, obsessive-compulsive disorder manifests itself differently in everyone. Truly, there is no end to the...
Source: World of Psychology - March 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens OCD Personal Stigma Students Child Development Compulsions grades Irrational Fear Obsessions Obsessive Compulsive Disorder School Stereotypes Source Type: blogs

8 Vital Ways Dads Can Support Their Partners ’ Mental Health Postpartum
You’ll be bringing your baby home soon. Or maybe you already have. And you want to be there for your spouse. You know that having a baby not only affects your wife’s body, but it also affects her mental health. You want to be supportive, encouraging and helpful. But you’re not exactly sure how to do that. What does it look like to support your spouse’s mental health? Where do you start? What should you avoid? Here, you’ll find suggestions from Kirsten Brunner, MA, LPC, a perinatal mental health and relationship expert. She’s the co-author of The Birth Guy’s Go-To Guide for New Dads: How to Support Your Par...
Source: World of Psychology - March 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books Family Friends General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Pregnancy Self-Help Child Development Fatherhood Postpartum Source Type: blogs

When Your Teen is Struggling with Anxiety
Since she was 10 years old, Sophie Riegel felt like something was off. “My friends all seemed so carefree. And I had the weight of the world holding me down.” Riegel writes these words in her beautiful, invaluable new book, Don’t Tell Me to Relax: One Teens’ Journey to Survive Anxiety (And How You Can Too). Shortly after, in middle school, Riegel was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), trichotillomania, generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. As a parent, you also think that something is off with your teen. They haven’t said anything, but you can feel the difference in their demeanor o...
Source: World of Psychology - March 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Disorders Family Mental Health and Wellness OCD Parenting Self-Help Adolescence Generalized Anxiety Disorder Panic Disorder Trichotillomania Source Type: blogs

Secrets, Shame & Mental Health
An interesting study published in the journal Emotion this month examines different types of secrets and how we feel about them. In particular, the researchers concentrated on secrets based on feeling shame as well as those rooted in guilt. Michael Slepian, PhD, of Columbia University was the lead author of the study and clarified the difference between shame and guilt, the two most studied self-conscious emotions. While basic emotions such as anger and fear refer to something outside of oneself, guilt and shame focus directly on the self. Feelings that correlate with shame about a secret include feeling worthless, small a...
Source: World of Psychology - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Mental Health and Wellness Research Stigma Deceit Guilt Rumination secrets Shame Trauma Source Type: blogs

8 Ways to Let Go of Mistakes
No one likes to mess up. But for those of us with a mix of obsessive-compulsive disorder and perfectionism, we can become debilitated by the guilt and regret following a blunder. Our brains are stuck on the stupidity of our actions, rehashing the events as if doing so will change what happened. How do you break free this painful loop of regret? After reading through a dozen self-help books on this topic and talking with people who have learned how to get beyond their errors, I compiled these eight strategies. 1. Forgive yourself for what you didn’t know. Maya Angelou once wrote, “Forgive yourself for not knowing wh...
Source: World of Psychology - January 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Personal Self-Esteem Self-Help forgive yourself regret Rumination Shame Worry Source Type: blogs

Podcast: A Bipolar and a Schizophrenic Discuss Feelings of Loneliness
While depression is a common mental health issue, it’s not even close to being the most common. Listen in to hear our hosts discuss how loneliness can make a person feel unwanted and uncared for – even if they are standing in a crowded room. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW “People think you can’t be lonely if you have people in your vicinity.” – Gabe Howard Highlights From ‘loneliness’ Episode [0:30] Loneliness kills more people than depression. [3:30] Michelle explains loneliness she has experienced. [5:20] Gabe explains loneliness he has experienced. [8:00] We always bring up our mo...
Source: World of Psychology - January 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Communication Motivation and Inspiration Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs