Psychiatrists and Psychologists Blogs This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

Magnets Can Improve Your Memory
Magnets could eventually be used to compensate for memory problems caused by dementia. • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Memory Source Type: blogs

Project Semicolon Founder Amy Bleuel Dies at 31
Amy Bleuel wanted to honor her father’s passing, after he died due to suicide. She settled on a potent symbol to help express the hope when a life is saved — the semicolon. It is a symbol of the perseverance that comes from grappling with mental illness. Sadly, Bleuel lost her own battle with depression last Thursday, March 23. She was 31. In 2015, Bleuel told The Mighty in an interview, “In literature, an author uses a semicolon to not end a sentence but to continue on. We see it as you are the author and your life is the sentence. You’re choosing to keep going.” The hope shared by Project Semi...
Source: World of Psychology - March 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Depression General Grief and Loss Policy and Advocacy Suicide Amy Bleuel Bleuel obituary Major Depressive Disorder Project Semicolon Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: March 31, 2017
My inbox and podcast are filled with beauty, and health and wellness tips. People who take care of their physical health are cool. I want to drink smoothies and eat acai bowls with them. But don’t you wish we could talk about emotional health in the same way? Wouldn’t it be nice if discussing things like medication, therapy and other forms of emotional self-care were treated with the same acceptance and ease with which we talk about our physical well-being? While it may never be sexy to talk about our emotional wellness, we can work on talking about it without fear and judgment. Let’s start by reading, s...
Source: World of Psychology - March 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Avoidant personality disorder Bipolar Disorder Depression Depression parent Emotional Wellness gaslighting health Health Care Medicine Nutrition Psychology Public Health relationship myths stonewalling Toxic Source Type: blogs

The Politics of Talking Politics at Work
Politics is already a sensitive subject at the office. The touchiness has been amplified recently. Yet whether it’s in the office, during happy hour or even on social media, politics will likely come up. Although it’s easier said than done, plenty of experts maintain you should never discuss politics at work under any circumstances. After all, it can be divisive. You’re talking about people’s world views, how they believe the country should be run and in many cases the best ways for people to live their lives. Many of my clients have anxiety not only about issues, policies, and the future of America itself, but...
Source: World of Psychology - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melody Wilding, LMSW Tags: Anger Bullying Family Friends General Industrial and Workplace Policy and Advocacy Professional Relationships Self-Help Success & Achievement Violence and Aggression Women's Issues America Career Communication conversation Source Type: blogs

How Parents Turn Their Children Into Narcissists
Creating narcissists: the parental behaviour that convinces children they are better than other people. • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Psychology Source Type: blogs

The Linguistic Trick That Helps You Cope With Strong Emotions
It is a way of expressing universal, shared experience and creating some emotional distance. • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Psychology Source Type: blogs

How to Move Through Anxiety with Greater Ease: A Personal Account
Experiencing anxiety is unpleasant. Unless perhaps you are on line for an amusement park ride, most of us find anxiety challenging to face. Recently I had the opportunity to face some anxiety head on, right before and during some planned surgery that a close family member underwent. Here is a personal experience of how mindfulness helped me through that anxious moment, and what I learned. What Mindfulness is NOT, and what it CAN offer: While the explosion of research and interest in mindfulness has brought so much benefit to so many, I see as a psychologist that there is now a risk of it being perhaps glamorized and mis...
Source: World of Psychology - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Beth Kurland, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Mindfulness Personal Self-Help Stress acceptance crisis fight or flight Loving Kindness nerves nonjudgment overwhelm Panic Attack Present Moment self-compassion surgery Worry Source Type: blogs

How the opioid epidemic became America ’s worst drug crisis ever, in 15 maps and charts - Vox
With all the other news going on, it can be easy to lose track of this fact. But it's true: In 2015, more than 52,000 people died of drug overdoses, nearly two-thirds of which were linked to opioids like Percocet, OxyContin, heroin, and fentanyl. That's more drug overdose deaths than any other period in US history — even more than past heroin epidemics, the crack epidemic, or the recent meth epidemic. And the preliminary data we have from 2016 suggests that the epidemic may have gotten worse since 2015.This situation did not develop overnight, but it has quickly become one of the biggest public health crises faci...
Source: Psychology of Pain - March 30, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs

The Science of Making Work Fun
Want your people to enjoy coming to work? Dr. Paul Zak shows you how to get there with neurochemistry. (Source: Neuromarketing)
Source: Neuromarketing - March 30, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Paul Zak Tags: Neuromarketing Source Type: blogs

PODCAST: Teen Creates Peer Support Network for Teens, Run by Teens
In this episode of the Psych Central Show, hosts Gabe and Vincent conclude a 3-part series about the Palo Alto suicides and some of the things that came about after and, at least partially, as a result of them. Returning this episode is Sammy Kotmel, joined by Nadia Ghaffari, founder of TeenzTalk a teen-run peer support website with users all over the world. Listen as she shares how and why this site was created and hear about its success stories. Hands artwork by Kaan Tarhan. Sammy Kotmel Listen as Our Hosts Learn About the ASPIRE Program for Youth with Mental Illness “If someone is struggling – if a teen i...
Source: World of Psychology - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: Children and Teens Friends General The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Nadia Ghaffari peer support Sammy Kotmel TeenzTalk Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs

You ’re in my space! How preferred interpersonal distance varies across the world
Compared with English participants, Germans were comfortable with a smaller interpersonal space when chatting to an acquaintance By Christian Jarrett It’s really awkward when you’re chatting to someone whose sense of appropriate interpersonal space is way too close. There’s the option of performing a subtle backward shuffle, but what if they simply close the gap again? Our judgments about such things obviously vary with individual personality – people with more social anxiety tend to prefer a greater distance – and also on the nature of the relationship we have with the other person. But culture m...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Social Source Type: blogs

10 Tips for Talking to Someone With Mental Health Problems
“Lots of people with your illness live highly functioning and fulfilling lives.” As someone who’s quite open about having bipolar disorder, I’ve experienced a number of unusual and upsetting responses from friends, co-workers and even some family members who didn’t know how to deal with the information. Reactions like, “I feel like I’m walking on eggshells!” to, “You don’t seem that bad!” are hurtful and unhelpful. 7 Ways To Protect Kids From YOUR Parental Depression? It is no wonder people are scared to admit their mental health struggles to others. I think the worst I go...
Source: World of Psychology - March 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Friends Mental Health and Wellness Publishers Relationships YourTango anxiety Bipolar Disorder Creativity Depression inspire listen Mental Health Problems Mental Illness Panic Attacks Perspective Rosalind Bruce Schizophreni Source Type: blogs

The Perfect Personality Trait For Intelligent People
The most fundamentally important personality trait for a thoughtful person of any political hue. • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Personality Source Type: blogs

ADHD and Adults: How to Create a Routine When You Don ’t Have a 9 to 5
Maybe you’re an entrepreneur. Maybe you’re a real estate agent or writer. Maybe you’re an artist or a photographer. Maybe you’re a graphic or web designer. Maybe you’re a coach or consultant. Maybe you’re an attorney with your own practice. Whatever your profession, you aren’t tied to a desk and you don’t have specific work hours — like 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. And you also have ADHD, which makes not having a built-in structure challenging. For example, people with ADHD tend to hyper-focus on things they find interesting, while other tasks fall through the cracks — such as invoicing and filing taxes, sa...
Source: World of Psychology - March 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders General Habits Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Success & Achievement Treatment ADHD challenges Adults With Adhd attention Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder daily tasks Source Type: blogs

Scrupulosity OCD — You Have Choices!
“I’m such a sinner. I’m supposed to have pure thoughts. I’m so wicked!” Destiny’s incessant thoughts compelled her to pray, sing hymns, confess, and repent to no avail. Her religious leaders kept telling her that she was not a sinner. They reassured her by telling her that she was a good person. She didn’t know her reassurance seeking was actually a compulsion that kept strengthening her OCD. Her anguish and her need to control her thoughts were affecting her overall functioning. Every time she experienced “impure” thoughts she felt unworthy of happiness or anything good in her life. Her anxiety would sw...
Source: World of Psychology - March 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Annabella Hagen, LCSW, RPT-S Tags: Brain and Behavior OCD Psychology Psychotherapy Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Compulsions critical thinking Obsessions Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Reassurance Scrupulosity validation seeking Source Type: blogs