Source: Courtesy of Bonnie Zucker As I think about planning an upcoming summer vacation, I feel a familiar wave of anxiety and dread. The thought of leaving cats home all alone steals…
Antidepressants and Heat Stroke Risk: What You Need to Know
Source: RDNE / Pexels It’s the first day of summer, and temperatures are already soaring across North America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. In weather like this, antidepressant users need…
Supporting Mothers’ Mental Health |
Carrie Mullins shares her thoughts on maternal mental health. Source: Carrie Mullins/Used with permission Carrie Mullins, author of The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood, was tired…
How to Respond to a “Cultural Incident”
Study abroad students in the Sahara Desert Source: Lawrence T. White I used to direct a study-abroad program that took students to Tartu, Estonia, for eight weeks and then to Fez, Morocco,…
In Sight: The Biological Diagnosis of Depression and Anxiety
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), clinical depression affects nearly 300 million people worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 20 million or more people in the U.S. have…
Are We Really Feeling What We Think We’re Feeling?
Source: Zolotarevs Shutterstock When we have feelings, we often think of them simply as emotions we’re having: I feel angry so I’m angry. I feel anxious so I must be anxious. However,…
3 Ways to Manage Anxiety: What’s Yours?
Source: Ambermb/pixabay Jack will admit that he’s an anxious guy. His motor is always running at too high a speed; he constantly worries about big and small things and always anticipates the…
Are Depression and Anxiety the Latest Canary in a Coal Mine?
A recent article in the New York Times argued that by talking too much about mental illness we are pathologizing normal emotional responses. But is that true? Normal is a relative term….
5 Ways Breathing Can Calm You Down—Even Under Severe Anxiety
This post was co-authored by Emma Seppälä, Ph.D., and Dara Ghahremani, Ph.D. You know those moments when you are juggling work stress, the news has you overwhelmed, your spouse is away, dinner…
5 Reasons Everyone With Anxiety Should See Inside Out 2
Warning: Massive spoilers ahead. Anyone who knows me will confirm that I am a child at heart. And, as a therapist, I obviously loved the first Inside Out movie. So when my…