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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 Long Does Rapid Cycling Last? Switching vs Cycling
Bipolar disorder is considered to be in a rapid cycling state if you have more than four episodes of either depression or mania in one year. One study showed that 80% of people experienced a resolution of their rapid cycling within two...
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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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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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What is Kleptomania? Is Part of Bipolar Disorder?
Kleptomania is an impulse control disorder that requires 5 criteria according to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition. 1. Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for...
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What Is Intermittent Explosive Disorder? Is It Just Being Angry?
What is intermittent explosive disorder and what we do about it? This video is based on a several viewer questions. Some of the questions were around distinguishing it from bipolar disorder. Others asked me to to talk about it because...
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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 is Delusional disorder? How Is It Different From Schizophrenia?
Delusional disorder is very different from schizophrenia. The only thing they have in common is the presence of delusions. Schizophrenia is delusions, plus hallucinations, disorganized thoughts and behavior and other cognitive or...
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What Does It Mean To Be Sadistic?
In this video, I explore the definition of sadism and discuss some examples of sadistic behavior. I also talk about the origins of the word and how it's used today. Sadism is the desire to intentionally harm someone and derive pleasure...
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Understanding Histrionic personality- The Pain Behind the Drama
Histrionic personality disorder falls into the cluster B grouping of personality disorders. Cluster B refers to the group of personality disorders that share the characteristics of being dramatic, emotional or erratic. And the...
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The Insecurity of Dependent Personality Disorder
Dependent personality disorder falls under the cluster C personality disorders which are the personalities where people appear fearful or anxious. The other two in this cluster are avoidant and obsessive compulsive. I’ve talked about...
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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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Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Explained. What are Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors?
The two most common behaviors are hair pulling and skin picking. These two have official names in the diagnostic manual. Hair pulling is called trichotillomania and skin-picking is called excoriation disorder. Even though...
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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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Restless Legs Syndrome and Sleep
There are two main movement disorders that are responsible for sleep problems: Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD). RLS afflicts between 9% and 15% of the general population. That’s not a small amount...
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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...
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Not All Attention Problems are ADHD- When NOT to Take Medication
Not all problems with attention are ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). The reason it is important is because you don’t want to take stimulants if problems with attention and focus if these problems are not the result of...
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Maladaptive Daydreaming vs Mind wandering – How To Tell the Difference
Maladaptive daydreaming is a psychological construct that explains a behavior but it is not an official disorder. There is not a lot that’s known about it, but it’s being researched more so we can better understand the prevalence, the...
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3 Ways ADHD Makes You Think About Yourself
This video is based on Schema Therapy. Schema is a framework for how you see yourself. This framework is built by your early life experiences, but it also adjusts over time as you have new experiences. There are 18 schemas or core...
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Can you inherit bipolar disorder or depression?
The genetics with most illnesses do not follow Mendelian genetics. Mendelian genetics is what you learned in science class where you could predict a certain trait based on what traits your parents have. Bipolar disorder and depression...
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Bipolar Disorder – What Does It Mean To Have a Predominant Polarity?
Did you know that about half the people with bipolar disorder, spend more time in one phase over the other and which phase that is can make a difference in how well you do? This video explains this pattern and how it can make a...
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Bipolar Disorder - When Not To Take Antidepressants
We generally do not use antidepressants in bipolar 1 disorder, because antidepressants are more likely to cause you to switch from depression into mania thereby triggering mania. Or it can cause you to rapid cycle. That is, you can have...
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Bipolar 1 Disorder or Bipolar 2 Disorder - Which is Worse?
Bipolar disorder 1 vs 2, which is worse? There is a common misconception that bipolar 2 is a milder form of bipolar 1 and therefore probably less of a problem. This can lead to people feeling as though they don't need to get treatment if...
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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...