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Bipolar vs Borderline Personality Disorder – How to tell the difference
Bipolar disorder vs borderline personality disorder. They are very similar but very different. This video is based on a viewer question. There is a big difference between personality disorders and the psychiatric illnesses like...
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Benzodiazepine Dependence and Withdrawal - How To Avoid This
Benzodiazepine or benzos for short, is the class of drug that works at the GABA receptors in your brain to produce a relaxing or sedative effect. We use benzodiazepines to treat short-term anxiety and sleep. Some doctors will use them as...
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Are You Born to Be Anxious? It May Be Your Temperament
Ever wonder why some people seem to be naturally anxious? It's possible that it's not your environment, but your temperament. In this video I'll share what you need to know about anxiety and if you have a "nervous" or an "anxious"...
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Anxiety: 5 primitive Defenses You Use Against It
Defense mechanisms are a set of mental strategies we use to ward off anxiety. These range from the primitive, like denial and projection, to more complex ones like sublimation. In this video I share five of the most common primitive...
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Anxiety is more than worry - 10 Scary Physical Symptoms
What does an anxiety attack physically feel like? If you’re anxious in your head, you can worry, but not all anxious people worry. There’s some pretty scary physical symptoms associated with it. This video discusses some of the scary...
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Anxiety Cells Found in the Brain - How They Did It
Researchers have found the origin of anxiety in the hippocampus of mice. This has far-reaching effects on how we look at and treat anxiety in humans. Neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center and University of California San...
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Alternative Medicine for Anxiety
Alternative medicine for anxiety. That’s what I talk about in this video. Here are 5 drugs that are known to be used for anxiety. 1. Chamomile 2. Kava 3. L-theonine 4. Valerian 5. GABA
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English Five a Day #2 - Expand Your Vocabulary
Take this 5-day English challenge to expand your vocabulary. Watch day 2 and grab your worksheet.
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Do You Have a Money Disorder?
Money is inherently EMOTIONAL, so it makes sense that it gets tied up with our fears and anxieties. Sometimes, they can take over our rational decision making.
Professor Dave Explains
Clinical Psychology Part 2: Present-Day Therapy
We learned about Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis, but what about what's being done today? How does modern therapy work? What is cognitive behavioral therapy? What's the difference between a psychologist/therapist, a psychiatrist,...
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Religion in America
Author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart discusses the role religion plays in American society, and how religious practice gibes with the ideals of the Founding Fathers.
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Anxiety
Teach your kids about their feelings and emotions with this lesson on anxiety and fear anxiety video.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Your Mental Health?
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Emotions For Kids: Naming and Responding
This is a social emotional video to help kids identify various emotions, identify emotions in themselves, and it gives kids tools on responding to those emotions.
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Evaluating Emotions
Cognitive scientist Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern) describes how her quest to understand emotions led her, eventually, to the current frontiers of neuroscience.
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Emotional Confusion
Social psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University, describes how experimental findings that indicated that subjects couldn’t accurately distinguish between different emotions led her on a quest to find objective markers...
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The Need To Belong
Roy Baumeister, University of Queensland, describes how, for the longest time social psychologists only paid lip service to the social world, and that his groundbreaking work The Need To Belong was motivated by an awareness that much of...
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The Origins of "The Need To Belong"
Roy Baumeister (Queensland) reflects upon what led him to develop his influential work on “The Need to Belong”, while giving penetrating insights on the life and work of a social psychologist.
Neuro Transmissions
What social distancing does to your mental health (and what to do about it)
These are anxious times given the recent coronavirus outbreak. And if that wasn't stressful enough, now we have to add social distancing on top of it. If you're anything like me, you've taken your responsibility to flatten the curve...
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This Is Your Brain On Shrooms
Psychedelics like magic mushrooms have huge effects on the brain. But what are they doing up there? More than 180 species of "magic mushrooms" produce the psychoactive compound psilocybin. And ingesting it triggers some pretty trippy...
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The dubious claims of brain training (and what actually works)
Brain training has gotten a bad rep for saying they prevent Alzheimer’s disease or boost you to 200 IQ. But does that mean you should uninstall all your apps? Well, turns out that not all brain training is created equal. Find out what...
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How to stop feeling like a fraud
You don't belong here. They're onto you. Everybody is going to find out the truth. It's only a matter of time. If you've ever had dark thoughts like these, you've likely fallen victim to Impostor Syndrome: a strange psychological...
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How to cope with your awful family at the holidays
The holidays are supposed to be the best time of the year. But let’s face it, family can be stressful. They don’t just know how to push your buttons, they installed them there in the first place! But that doesn’t mean your family...
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How COVID-19 Affects The Brain
A lot of the information we hear about COVID-19 surrounds how the virus impacts your lungs or how the pandemic has ravaged society due to quarantine. But what about your brain? Might coronavirus have an effect there, too? Come along with...