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What Is One Thing You Want Non-ADHD Adults To Know About Adult ADHD? Explain It Here, Anonymously Or Full Name
Problem: Have you ever heard any of these? “You just need to focus.” “You just need to try harder.” “ADHD isn’t a real condition.” “If you use ADHD meds you’ll become a drug addict.” “Everybody has ADHD.” As someone who has been coaching adults with ADHD since 2003, runs an Adult ADHD support group, and has ADHD, I’ve heard these ignorant stigmatizing comments far too often. So have my Adult ADHD clients, who hear them so often, and see so few willing to call them out on it, or impose a cost for stigmatizing us, some start to believe the lies...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - April 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain One Point About Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

Supplementing the 12-Step Program with Yoga
Author Taylor Hunt is teaching people struggling with addiction a new tool for recovery: Ashtanga Yoga. His charity works with treatment centers, halfway houses, and prisons. Taylor Hunt recently broke his anonymity and published a gritty memoir of his drug addiction, A Way from Darkness. The way out, he found, was the 12-step program coupled with Ashtanga Yoga — a dynamic series of physical poses and breath work — which he now teaches at the center he founded in Columbus, Ohio and around the world. Now, he has quit his successful business and started the Trini Foundation, a charity that supplies free Ashtanga...
Source: World of Psychology - April 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Disorders Exercise & Fitness Mindfulness Publishers Recovery Self-Help Substance Abuse The Fix Treatment ashtanga yoga Charity Drug Addiction Drug Users halfway houses Nathan A Thompson Prisons Reha Source Type: blogs

Single Or Married: Which Is The Most Fulfilling Life?
Psychologist challenges the orthodox view with evidence from studies conducted over 30 years. • 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 - April 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Psychology Source Type: blogs

How to Manage Your Friends (Without Making It Awkward)
When you’re a fast-rising millennial stepping into a managerial role for the first time, there’s certainly a lot to think about. You’ve probably wondered if your older colleagues will consider you experienced enough. Or maybe you’ve thought about how the shift in responsibility will affect your work-life balance. But many new managers have a worry that’s seldom addressed, even though it’s widespread: how to navigate managing peers and friends. What should you do when people who have always been your equals are now reporting to you? This transition can be awkward and anxiety-provoking to say the least, yet typic...
Source: World of Psychology - April 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melody Wilding, LMSW Tags: Friends General Happiness Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Money and Financial Motivation and Inspiration Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress Student Therapist Students Success & Achievement Women's Is Source Type: blogs

How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain —and End America's Opioid Epidemic | WIRED
On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain? Would you say it aches, or would you say it stabs? Does it burn, or does it pinch? How long would you say you've been hurting? And are you taking anything for it?Steven Pete has no idea how you feel. Sitting in Cassava, a café in Longview, Washington, next to a bulletin board crammed with flyers and promises —your pain-free tomorrow starts today; remember: you're not alone in your battle against peripheral neuropathy! —he tells me he cannot fathom aches or pinches or the searing scourge of peripheral neuropathy that keep millions of people awake at night...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 22, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs

Psychology Around the Net: April 22, 2017
Happy Saturday, sweet readers! This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers mindfulness vs. talk therapy, the physical and mental pros and cons of “frenemies,” the controversial “controlled drinking” treatment for problem drinking, and more. Mindfulness May Rival Talk Therapy For A Variety Of Mental Health Issues: While cognitive behavioral therapy (also known as “talk therapy”) generally is thought of as the gold standard for helping treat a multitude of mental health issues, a recent eight-week study involving group mindfulness reports mindfulness can be similarly effective. Am...
Source: World of Psychology - April 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Friends Industrial and Workplace Military Mindfulness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Around the Net Psychotherapy PTSD Recovery Relationships Research Treatment Cogn Source Type: blogs

On Grieving and Celebrating the Deceased
Aunt Jane died. She was 95. Aunt Jane was the lady who taught me how to play jacks and cats’ cradle in 1969 when I was six-years-old. She fed me salmon patties, which I grew to like. She took me on daily walks by the duck pond. When we all got older, it was my brothers and I who entertained Aunt Jane. We took her to lunch at the steak house or stopped at a burger joint and picked up food and took it to her apartment, where we laughed and joked and marveled at our aunt, born in 1921. Jane still called the refrigerator the “ice box.” I was particularly close to Jane because she was so kind to my autistic so...
Source: World of Psychology - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Family Grief and Loss Personal Self-Help death grieving honoring memorializing Source Type: blogs

This Natural Juice Helps Keep Your Brain Young
Older brains can perform like younger ones with this supplement. • 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 - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Boost Brain Power Source Type: blogs

The Importance of ’ 13 Reasons Why ’ and It ’ s Reflection of Teen Mental Health
This article does include spoilers for the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why”. On March 31, 2017 Netflix released a new series titled, “13 Reasons Why”, based off the book by author Jay Asher. This series depicts a young man, Clay Jensen, and his journey to bring justice for his friend Hannah Baker. Hannah, a seventeen-year-old high school junior with nothing but the future before her, took her life on a seemingly calm afternoon. Why is this important? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in individuals between the ages of 10 and 24 years old, suicide is the third leading cause of death. ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Haley Elizabeth Roberts, LBSW Tags: Children and Teens Depression Minding the Media Movie Review Research Self-Esteem Students Success & Achievement Suicide Trauma 13 Reasons Why bullying Harassment High School Netflix Rape sexting Sexual Assault sexual a Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: April 21, 2017
In a few days it will be Earth Day. Will you spend it raising environmental awareness, reducing your carbon footprint or perhaps planting a tree? Whatever your beliefs about the planet, no one could argue its importance to our health. There is another thing you can do. Connecting with nature nourishes us on a cellular level. Spend time hiking, go to a park, walk barefoot in the soil and enjoy our posts on relationships, and apps for depression that will also help you breathe better this weekend. 4 Ways Narcissists React to Our Boundaries (Narcissism Meets Normalcy) – It’s the one test you haven’t tri...
Source: World of Psychology - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs apps for depression Carbon Footprint Codependency Depression (mood) Depression apps Dysfunctional family member hypercritical mother Improving relationship Inner Critic Is he a narcissist Narcissism Narcissistic p Source Type: blogs

How much are readers misled by headlines that imply correlational findings are causal?
By Alex Fradera What do you take from this hypothetical headline: “Reading the Research Digest blog is associated with higher intelligence”? How about this one: “Reading this blog might increase your intelligence”? According to science writing guides like HealthNewsReview.org, taking the first correlational finding from a peer-reviewed article and reporting it for the public using the second wording, implying causation, is a sin of exaggeration, making a relationship appear more causal than the evidence suggests. Yet this happens a lot. A 2014 British Medical Journal (BMJ) article showed these exagg...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Media Source Type: blogs

10 Famous People with Depression, Bipolar Disorder or Both
Whenever I hit a depression rut, where I feel disabled by the illness and therefore pathetic for being brought to my knees by a bunch of thoughts, it helps me to review celebrities — esteemed politicians, actors, musicians, comedians, astronauts, writers, and athletes — that I admire from both the past and present who have also wrestled the demons of depression and bipolar disorder. I feel less alone knowing that this infuriating condition doesn’t discriminate, and that I’m fighting alongside some of the world’s most talented and accomplished people. Here are a few of the luminaries that have, ov...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Bipolar Celebrities Depression Inspiration & Hope Ashley Judd Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Ii Disorder Brooke Shields Depressive Episode famous Jared Padalecki Manic Episode Matt Lauer Mood Disorder Winston Churchill Wynonna Judd Source Type: blogs

Do Most Breast Cancer Patients Develop PTSD?
I’m grateful to Traci Pedersen for her March 3, 2016 article “Study Finds Most Breast Cancer Patients Develop PTSD Symptoms,” and to Dr. Grohol for all his efforts to help people heal from trauma. I’d say 99% of breast cancer patients develop PTSD, even though symptoms may be repressed. It would require a remarkable childhood not to do so. First, breast cancer is an immediate life threat. At diagnosis, the brain sets off our fight-flight stress chemicals, then for a minimum of a year or more (the suspense often lasts much longer), it’s like having a gun held to your head 24 x 7. If someone did hold ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kathy Brous Tags: Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Research Trauma Women's Issues Attachment Breast Cancer Negativity Bias Oncology Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychological Trauma Traumatic Events Source Type: blogs

6 Signs You May Have Adult ADHD
8.2% of people have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, double the previously reported rate. • 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 - April 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attention Source Type: blogs

The Angry Itch
Anger can be considered one of the most toxic emotions a person can experience. It can also be one of the most motivating. In order to understand how to best manage anger for one’s own life, it helps to understand anger from several different angles. Michael Potegal and Raymond W. Novaco wrote an essay called A Brief History of Anger. Some of their key points around anger involved insanity, sin, and manhood. All of these reasons for anger still exist to some extent in the ways we live even now. When we say someone is ‘mad with rage’ we know that they are capable of losing control to the point of becoming un...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Lee Tags: Anger Habits Happiness Relationships Self-Help anxiety Emotion Regulation Frustration Mood Swings Rage Temper Temperament Source Type: blogs