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What is Serotonin Syndrome - Is It Fatal?
Serotonin is a brain chemical, also called neurotransmitter that plays a role in controlling your mood and anxiety. Low levels of this in your brain contribute to depression and anxiety. Therefore, many of the medications we use to treat...
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What is bipolar spectrum? Will it become bipolar 1 or bipolar 2?
Today's video is about bipolar spectrum illness and is based on a viewer question from Saddam. He asks if his diagnosis of bipolar spectrum will later become bipolar 1 or bipolar 2 disorder. The short answer is that here in the US...
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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 Existential Anxiety?
Do you sometimes feel like life is meaningless? That everything you do doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things? If so, you might be experiencing existential anxiety. In this video, I'll explain what existential anxiety is,...
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What Is Depersonalization Derealization Disorder?
Depersonalization is defined as feeling unreal and detached from your body’s thoughts, sensation and actions. It’s like you’re observing yourself and your thoughts. Things don’t seem real. Derealization is defined as feeling unreal and...
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What Does It Mean To Be Neurotic?
In this video I discuss three ways to define neurotic. 1. Using the five-factor OCEAN model developed by Lewis Goldberg 2. Using the concept of neurosis developed by Sigmund Freud 3. Using personality organization construct developed by...
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What Does an Emotional Support Animal Really Do?
Do you have a pet that you rely on for emotional support? ESAs are becoming more and more popular, but what do they actually do for their owners? In this video, I take a look at the benefits of having an ESA and dispel some of the myths...
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The Truth Behind Fear Of Vomiting
Emetophobia is the fear of vomiting. It's can be a very debilitating condition that causes people to avoid certain foods and situations for fear of triggering an episode. But what exactly are the triggers, signs and symptoms of...
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What is Anxious Depression?
Anxiety and depression often come together. And there's different ways this can look. Sometimes anxiety spawns depression, where you start off with something like obsessive compulsive disorder where you have these overwhelming thoughts...
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What is Akathisa? An Uncomfortable Medication Side Effect
Akathisia is a side effect of some medications mostly antipsychotics, antidepressants and antiemetics with are medications prescribed for nausea and vomiting. Some of these medications are ondansetron, brand name Zofran and promethazine...
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What Is Agoraphobia Like - How Do You Help It?
What is agoraphobia like and how to help it? Agoraphobia is the fear of being in certain places where you have anxiety and are unable to escape or get help. The diagnostic manual for mental disorders lists five kinds of places that you...
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What Exercise Does To Your Brain – HINT: It’s Like Cannabis
What’s the good feeling you get after intense exercise? It’s not from endorphin release like we originally thought. Instead, it’s from endocannabinoid release, which is your body’s natural cannabinoids. Regular, vigorous exercise also...
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What are Panic Attacks – Why You Get them?
Panic attacks are a sudden onset of intense anxiety. Sometimes when you get anxious, you can feel uptight or on edge. Or you may worry about things. Panic is different. You have a surge of intense fear or physical symptoms that come on...
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What ADHD Is Really Like - It's More Than Poor Attention
What ADHD is really like. It's more than problems with focus and concentration. I discuss ADHD in adulthood symptoms. ADHD and hyperfocus are an unexpected combination. In an adult with ADHD, here's what you can see with the hyperactive...
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Two Tips for Health Anxiety
The clinical term for health anxiety used to be hypochondriasis, but now it’s been split into two disorders, somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. With health anxiety you are oversensitive to body sensations and fear you...
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The Psychedelic Revolution – Don’t Forget About Ketamine
Ketamine is an old medication used for anesthesia, but in recent years it's been used to treat depression. It works changing your brain circuitry, and it has been found for many people to be more effective than traditional...
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The Connection Between Anxiety and Stomach Problems
There’s a bidirectional relationship between gastrointestinal disorders and anxiety. This relationship is thought to be controlled by a gut-brain connection. Research studies have concluded that there is signaling between the gut and the...
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Stress Versus Anxiety: How This Herb May Help
Some people will use stress and anxiety interchangeably, but stress and anxiety are not the same, there are some distinct differences between the two. Why does is matter? One reason is because there’s an herbal remedy that’s gaining a...
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Window of Tolerance: What is it and how to stay in it
In this video, I discuss the window of tolerance and how to stay in it. The window of tolerance is a state where you are performing at your best. You're relaxed, but alert. You're focused, but not overwhelmed. Learn how to find your...
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Six Signs of Perfectionism - Healthy vs. Extreme
There’s a certain amount of healthy perfectionism, we’ll call it perfectionistic strivings. If this is you, you’re naturally more driven.
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Schizotypal Personality – Is It The Beginning of Schizophrenia?
Schizotypal personality is unique because not only is it considered a personality disorder, but in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th edition it's listed as a schizophrenia spectrum illness. This is because...
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Social Anxiety Disorder vs Shyness - How to Fix It
Are you Socially Anxious? What’s the difference between social anxiety disorder and being shy? That’s what I’m discuss in this video. I also discuss how we treat social anxiety disorder. I discuss the medications we use in social anxiety...
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OCD Intrusive Thoughts: 4 Examples and A Look Into Compulsions
Obsessive compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder whereby you have either obsessions or compulsions or both. Most people have both but you can have one or the other. Some people use the term Pure O OCD to refer to only having...
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Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder vs Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
These two disorders have similar names but are very difference. Obsessive compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder does is a part of your personality make-up. That personality make-up does...