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How To Question Your Doctor's Diagnosis
It’s no secret that people get information from the Internet. So you don’t need to tiptoe around this issue. But of course, you don’t want to say I think you got the diagnosis wrong. No one wants to start a conversation feeling...
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How To Use Mindfulness For Depression
Mindfulness's attention to the here and now. It's being fully present in the moment. You are experiencing the present moment and non-judgmental way. The brain model of depression is hypo-connectivity between the neurons in certain parts...
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How to Use Light Therapy
A light box can be useful for more than seasonal affective disorder. It has been recommended for use as an add-on treatment for depression. It can also help shift your body clock. This video shows you how to use a light box.
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How To Tell If Your Anxiety Is Treatment Resistant
In this video, we're going to talk about what it means when you have treatment resistant anxiety. I’m also going to define four terms for you, treatment resistance, treatment refractory, medication intolerance, target symptoms. I also...
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How to Deal with Negative Emotions - Distress Tolerance
I’ve talked about dialectical behavior therapy or DBT as the best treatment for borderline personality disorder. But modified forms of DBT can be helpful for other conditions like bipolar disorder, anxiety, eating disorders, depression...
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How The mediterranean Diet Improves Your Mood - What The Science Shows
Did you know that A healthy diet is associated with an approximately 30% reduction in the risk for depression and a 40% improvement in your thinking? There’s been a growing body of research showing an association between diet,...
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Feeling Depressed vs Having Depression – How To Tell the Difference
This is a very relevant topic in this current time as we deal with this pandemic and all of the negativities that comes with it. I don’t think we’ve begun to see the mental impact that this is going to have on us long term. Drug...
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How To Tell If You're Depressed
How do you know if you're depressed? Sometimes it can be hard to tell if you have a clinical depression, or if you have a temporary sadness. How do doctors diagnose depression? There are several depression symptoms that help you know if...
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How Playing Music Helps Anxiety and Changes Your Brain
Playing a musical instrument is one of the best things you can do to exercise your mind and improve your overall mental state. Playing an instrument is very different from listening to music. Listening to pleasant music is great, but...
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How Depression and Pain Are Connected
There's a very close relationship between pain and depression. You can think of it as Bi-directional meaning that each entity influences the other. Pain worsens or can even cause depression and depression worsens your pain tolerance....
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Here's Why You Want To Know About Mushrooms and Depression
Psilocybin is a compound found in mushrooms that has psychedelic properties. Psychedelic means it makes you hallucinate. Psilocybin works in the brain by activating the 5-HT2A receptor on the neuron to increase serotonin.
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How Your Body Warns You About Future Depression
Did you know that your heart rate variability can warn you about future depression? In this video, I talk about a study that found a strong correlation between decreased heart rate variability and increased risk for developing depression...
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Self and wellbeing: Hacking enlightenment: can ultrasound help you transcend reality?
Can technology improve the way we meditate? At the University of Arizona, Dr Jay Sanguinetti and master meditator Shinzen Young are using ultrasound to improve our ability to achieve mindfulness, as well as enhance our cognition and...
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Jamal Edwards breaks taboos around men's mental health
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. Jamal Edwards, founder of film-making company SBTV, asks why so many men are taking their own lives, and whether society’s stereotypes of masculinity have stopped men from seeking...
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Generation HIV: the young Britons born HIV positive
In Britain there’s a unique group of young people who’ve had HIV all their lives. They were born in the 90s, when mother-to-child transmission couldn’t be prevented, but HIV positive babies could survive. No other generation will ever...
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What is Schizophrenia? - It's More Than Hallucinations
Schizophrenia is the most serious disorder we have in psychiatry. It is much more than hallucinations. It’s an illness where the person’s main problem is being psychotic. With psychosis, you are not able to tell what’s real and what’s...
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Vaping Increases The Risk of Depression
Researchers at Johns Hopkins published a study in December 2019 showing a link between e-cigarettes and depression. This isn’t the first study of it’s kind. There have been others. Depression and vaping are seen as having a bidirectional...
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The Signs of Complicated Grief (Spotting the Symptoms)
Healing from grief is usually a long slow process, and what we think of as typical grief would be an experience that may start out intensely sad and negative and then overtime becomes less sad and with more positive reflections on the...
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Which Antipsychotics Cause The Most Weight Gain?
Antipsychotic medications are powerful drugs that are used to treat more than psychotic conditions like schizophrenia. Many of them are FDA-approved to treat bipolar disorder and depression. Even though they work very well and fast, they...
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When Should You See A Doctor For Mental Issues? (The ULTIMATE Guide)
This video is for those of you who are trying to figure out when it's time to see a doctor about your mental health - or if you're just curious about what kind of issues typically warrant seeing a therapist. Well, today I’m going to talk...
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What is Really Considered a Suicidal Thought?
What is Really Considered a Suicidal Thought?
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Why Antidepressants Kill Your Sex Drive - And What To Do About It
Why do antidepressants kill your sex drive? Sexual side effects are a common unwanted medication side effect. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter or nerve chemical that plays a role regulating your mood. But it also does affects nerves that...
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What is Schizoaffective Disorder- Is It Worse Than Bipolar Disorder?
Schizoaffective disorder as a combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder either bipolar disorder or depression. Where does the term affective come from? In psychology there’s a concept called the ABC’s of the psychology. It divides...