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What Does It Mean to Be a "Good" Student? | Creators for Change
What does it mean to say someone is a "good" student? Today Danielle breaks down the stereotype of the perfect student and why grades alone don't define children. She also examines the systems and barriers that stop young girls and...
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2025 - How Global Business Is Finally Understanding Neurodiversity with Author Ed Thompson
What is neurodiversity and how are global companies thinking about it to build more productive teams and happier employees? Listen in today to get tips from the forefront of a major global business shift in how we think about the human...
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How This Treatment For Borderline Personality Disorder Improves Empathy
There’s a new study using oxytocin (often called the love hormone) to treat borderline personality disorder. To date we really don’t have a medication treatment for the disorder. I talk about the treatment for BPD when you also have...
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How the Ketogenic Diet Helps Schizophrenia
In this video I discuss the ketogenic diet, what is ketosis and how is it different from ketoacidosis. I also talk about how the ketogenic diet affects brain metabolism and how this improves schizophrenia. In the previous video, I talk...
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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 Hypnosis Really Works – An Option For Your Anxiety
Hypnosis works by creating an altered state of awareness where you are deeply relaxed and selectively focused on something. It’s like taking down your psychological defences so that you can process an issue presented to you without...
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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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How Brain Games Can Reduce Your Anxiety and Depression
Did you know that uncontrollable worry is an anxiety disorder that typically starts in childhood? It’s a disorder that is usually life long and comes and goes over the course of your life. Uncontrolled worry is one of the hallmarks of...
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Hoarding Disorder - It’s More than Messy
Hoarding used to be a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A person would have persistent thoughts of collecting or acquiring things, or rituals of holding on to items. But research using functional brain imaging has shown that...
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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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Fear of Losing Control: What It Is and How to Overcome It
What happens when you're afraid of losing control? Do you freak out, feel paralyzed, or do something else? In this video, I talk about what can happen when we fear losing control and offer some tips for how to deal with it.
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How To Tell what Mania and Hypomania Really Look like
Bipolar disorder is often very misunderstood. There’s a common misconception that anything unstable must be bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is really defined by the presence of mania or hypomania. Depression is present in both bipolar...
The Guardian
Stonewall's Ruth Hunt tells Owen Jones: 'My heart breaks for trans communities'
The Stonewall chief executive, Ruth Hunt, talks to Owen Jones about her shock at the level of vitriol directed at transgender and non-binary people. She says the scale of abuse in the UK has contributed to high levels of self-harm,...
The Guardian
Munroe Bergdorf: ‘It's like people have free rein to harass the trans community’
The trans activist and model Munroe Bergdorf was working with the NSPCC’s Childline until the charity suddenly cut ties with her. She speaks to Owen Jones about the impact of that decision, her life as an activist and how she copes with...
The Guardian
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...
The Guardian
RIP SENI: racism, graffiti and the UK's mental health crisis
One morning in June 2020, graffiti reading RIP SENI appeared emblazoned across a public artwork outside the Bethlem royal hospital, a psychiatric hospital in south London. The spray-painted letters drew attention to Olaseni Lewis, a...
Curated Video
Why You Spend Time On Things You Don't Care About
How do you know what matters? If someone said what are your about? What are your values? Would be be able to tell them? You probably wouldn’t if you hadn’t already thought about this. It’s not because you don’t have any values. There are...
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Why Meditation Is Better For Anxiety Than Relaxation Therapy
This video jumps right in to talk about types of relaxation and therapy and the types of meditation therapy. This is based on a study that compared the two approaches to treating anxiety. They concluded that meditation was superior. The...
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Why do you gain weight with antidepressants and mood stabilizers?
Why do you gain weight with antidepressants and mood stabilizers? In this video I discuss two way. One way is by blocking histamine 1 receptors. We usually think of histamine as something that is associated with allergies and your immune...
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Why Do Antidepressants Take So Long To Work?
Antidepressants can take anywhere from 2 -6 weeks to see a therapeutic effect. You may notice a little improvement sooner than that, but the usual is weeks. There's a couple reasons for this. The first is due to the way the drug works....
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Why Antidepressants Make You Feel Worse - At First
This problem of antidepressants making you feel worse can happen when we use it for anxiety or depression. With depression, you can feel even more depressed after you take it, but if you keep taking it, that effect wears off. The problem...
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What Triggers Mood swings in Borderline Personality
Today’s video answers the question: what triggers the mood swings that you can see and borderline personality disorder? One of the features of borderline personality disorder that make it look like bipolar disorder is having wide mood...
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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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What is Really Considered a Suicidal Thought?
What is Really Considered a Suicidal Thought?