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A tale of two diseases
I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). I am also bipolar. Now which of the above statements shocked/ surprised you more? If I am guessing correctly the latter statement about my being bipolar came across as more of a shock/ surprise/ concern. Now what does that say about your own reactions to mental illness and your own involvement in perpetuating the stigma against mental illness? Embed from Getty Images Both of the above are chronic diseases to an extent. My OSA (snoring in popular parlance) cannot be treated by surgery, so the only viable option I have is to use a CPAP machine while sleeping to get a good nightR...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: bipolar personal Bipolar disorder Mental disorder Mental health self-disclosure Source Type: podcasts

The books that shaped my 2016
‘Love of learning’ in VIA and ‘Learner’ in Gallup, is one of my top strengths, and it typically manifests as either participating in a lot of MOOC‘s or reading a lot of books. I’m trying to move more towards learning by doing, and moving more towards applied concerns, but I guess some reflection on the books I read in 2016 and which left a mark on me are in order. I read a total of 16 books completely in 2016 as per goodreads, and I had set a challenge of reading at least 25 books in the year, so I did fall short of target. Not all books I read made a lasting impact and here are the ones...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review books coaching Positive psychology Source Type: podcasts

Memory and Reasoning: Insight from Apes
I have been reading the excellent book ‘The mind of an ape‘ by David and Ann Premack and also enrolled in a MOOC tiled ‘Origins of the human mind’ offered by Dr. Matsuzawa, so apes have been on top of my mind recently. Embed from Getty Images Prof Matsuzawa describes an experimental procedure where numerals from 1 to 9 are very briefly displayed on the screen and then masked and the chimpanzee is required to touch the numerals, displayed randomly on the screen briefly, and now invisible as are masked, in ascending order. The chimpanzee is able to perform the task at 80% accuracy, a feat at whi...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: compartative psychology causal reasoning Chimpanzee memory Source Type: podcasts

The Four Major Goals of Life revisited
I wrote about the four major goals in life on my psychology today blog quite some time back and want to revisit it today in the light of reading Susan Wolf‘s ‘Meaning in life and why it matters’ which is a very accessible and engaging, as well as a short, read. A Good Dog Can Bring Happiness to Your Life (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Susan Wolf claims that there are two usual suspects when it comes to explaining our major striving and actions. The reason why we do something may be to enhance our self-interest (the egoistic principle) or the reasons may lie in ethical and moral considerations (the altruistic p...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness motivation goals meaning Morality motivations success Source Type: podcasts

Manic Depressive Leaders in a Time of Crisis
S. Nassir Ghaemi, in his book, A First Rate Madness: Uncovering the links between Leadership and Mental Illness, makes a case for the fact that while ‘normal’ leaders are good in times of stability and peace; in times of crisis, mentally ill or mentally abnormal people make for better leaders. Embed from Getty Images He does this via historical analysis of leaders like Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln etc. Some of these leaders he classifies as being predominantly depressive, others as manic while the rest as being of bipolar proclivity. He lists f...
Source: The Mouse Trap - November 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: bipolar creativity depression empathy mania realism resilience Source Type: podcasts

Measuring different types of Well-being
Well-being is a very broad construct. Any good measure of well-being is likely to be multi-dimensional and consist of many factors or scales. A recent review of well-being measures grouped the well-being measures into four broad groups of Hedonic, Eudiamonic, Quality of Life and Wellness measures. Embed from Getty Images However, a better conceptualization of well-being is to consider it made of emotional/hedonic well-being, psychological well-being, social well being and vocational/economic well-being. Emotional well-being is typically measured by presence of positive emotions, absence of negative emotions and life ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness emotional well-being Psychological well-being social well-being Source Type: podcasts

The BioPsychoSocioEnvironmental model
Most of us have heard about the BioPsychoSocial model of mental illnesses and have also heard about the stress-diathesis model. Today as I was contemplating the two, taking cue from my ABCD model of psychology, I tried combining the two and find quite some merit in that approach. Schematic of diathesis–stress model. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) To recap, BioPsychoSocial model says that any disease is a result of multiple interacting factors- some of them biological in nature while others psychological and social. The mind affects the body and the body affects the mind and together they may lead to health or illness. This mo...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: mental illness ABCD ABCD model Disease Mental disorder Mental health Source Type: podcasts

Dr. Gurr speaks with Dr. Skip Rizzo about Virtual Reality Therapy
Today’s podcast is a conversation between Dr. Howard Gurr and Dr. Skip Rizzo. Dr. Rizzo is well known for his work with VR and PTSD. He is one of the first psychologists to recognize the benefits of VR for psychological issues. Dr. Rizzo talks about his introduction to VR, the benefits of VR for mental health problems and his research with VR. Here is Dr. Rizzo’s bio: Albert “Skip” Rizzo is a clinical psychologist/neuropsychologist and Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the University Of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies. He is also a Research Professor with the USC Dept. of Psychiatry ...
Source: The Shrink Is In - July 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts

Dr. Gurr Talks with Dr. Robert Reiner about Virtual Reality Therapy
Dr. Howard Gurr Talks with Dr. Robert Reiner about Virtual reality Therapy(VRT). Dr. Reiner has been using VRT for many years in his practice in New York City. Here is Dr. Reiner's bio: Robert H. Reiner Ph.D., BCN, BCB, Executive Director and founder of Behavioral Associates (BA), has been practicing psychology since 1981. After receiving his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, he went on to get his Ph. D. in clinical psychology at the University of Alabama and serve his clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital. He currently serves on the faculty for the Department of Psychiatry at New York Univers...
Source: The Shrink Is In - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts

Dr. Gurr Speaks To Mr. Scott Lowe from www.psious.com about virtual reality therapy
Dr. Howard Gurr talks to Mr. Scott Lowe from www.psious.com about their company,the current state of Virtual Reality Therapy and the future of Virtual Reality Therapy. Mr.Scott Lowe manages the North American market for Psious, the leading company in virtual reality for mental healthcare. Scott found his way to Psious after orthogonal stops as a competitive amateur boxer, industrial engineer at Stanford University, and professional dancer/acrobat, two of which entailed journeys in anxiety management that piqued his interest in cutting-edge treatments. Now with Psious, Scott is helping establish a new class of therapists w...
Source: The Shrink Is In - May 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts

A Decade of Blogging: the Top 10 posts on The Mouse Trap
19 may 2006 was the day I blogged for the first time; the platform was blogspot and I was unsure of what direction my blog will take and whether I will be able to make a difference and convey my thoughts and learning to a broader audience. Embed from Getty Images A decade later, with more than a million page views, I am decently satisfied with having found a niche for myself and for creating some positive impact. But one lament I have is that I have slowed down considerably. In the first 3 and half years, while the blog was hosted on blogspot, I wrote about 360 blog posts; in Oct 2009, I had moved to self hosted blog, ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 22, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Blog 10 Years anniversary Source Type: podcasts

To Have or to Do? To Be or to Become?
A new study has recently caught the fancy of psychology journalists and is being touted as a support for renewed materialistic attitudes. Jeff Woloson in Thailand. The birds atop Jeff’s head and left arm are Brahminy Kites; the larger bird on his right arm is a young White-bellied Sea-eagle. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There is a well known finding in psychology that experiential purchases, or experiences, are better for your happiness than material purchases, or possessions. However, the picture, as always, is more nuanced and complicated. For starters, happiness means all things to all people, and is likely to be mul...
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness Daniel Kahneman Martin Seligman Positive psychology well-being Source Type: podcasts

To thrive in life invest in these 8 psychological constructs
We all want to excel in life and various psychological constructs have been proposed that can help us in this mission. These range from grit(mostly used in academic domain) to PsyCap (mostly used in work domain) to the concept of deliberate practice (mostly used in niche domains). That’s My Goal (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Grit has been proposed to be made up of passion and perseverance; passion itself being made up of investment of time and effort regularly in activities that one finds important, loved and self-defining (i.e. one identifies one’s self with the passionate activity). PsyCap is made up of Confidenc...
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: motivation ABCD eight stage grit PsyCap well-being Source Type: podcasts

Links from my #Leadership/ #PosPsy blog: 15 May 2016
Many of you may know that I am a Gallup certified strengths as well as a well-being/life coach; and l do workshop facilitation in leadership development space. As part of reaching out to people who may benefit from applying positive psychology principles to their work/ daily life, I have decided recently to blog more frequently on Flourish Mentoring, my Leadership and Positive psychology based self-improvement blog and website. Embed from Getty Images This also means that any posts that are primarily related to positive psychology will no longer be posted on The Mouse Trap, but will find a new home on the Flourish Ment...
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Flourish Mentoring Source Type: podcasts

Virtual Reality Therapy For Phobias
Today I introduce my interest in therapy- Virtual Reality Therapy(VRT). I briefly talk about why I am focused on VRT and how I think it is a great tool for solving phobias and otther emotional difficulties. (Source: The Shrink Is In)
Source: The Shrink Is In - May 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts