Here’s What You Can Do When the World Feels Upside Down
One of the best parts of my job is getting to hear what’s on your mind. Below are answers to three questions I am asked almost every day from patients, family, friends, and this...
An Antidote for Overthinking
Feelings aren’t facts.
A basic principle of every non-pharmaceutical treatment for depression and anxiety involves putting some distance between oneself and one’s emotions. Psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, meditation and exercise, to name a few, create space...
7 Habits That Can Cut the Risk of Depression in Half
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
—Aristotle
Your answers to these seven questions have serious implications for your mental health:
Do you get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep a night?
How much junk food...
The Difference Between Feeling Anxious and Having an Anxiety Disorder
What does anxiety feel like to you?
Here are a few descriptions I have heard over the years:
From the literal:
Queasy
Revved up
On edge
Worried
To the metaphorical:
Like a pit in my stomach
Like...
How We Talk About Mental Health Matters
The practice of seeking support when we’re distressed is typically associated with emotional well-being. It makes sense: Most of us believe that having somebody—a friend, a parents, a therapist—who listens to all our travails...
How to Stop Jumping to Conclusions
What makes you tick?
This is the question that drew me to psychiatry in the first place. What interested me most was not what people did but why they did it. What I have learned...