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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...
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How To Help Your Loved One Get Help
It's very hard to watch a loved one need help but not get it. What you do to help depends on why they refuse help and how much they accept that they have an illness. See this video on The Imposter Syndrome for one way this looks •...
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Then the shooting started': Afghan asylum seekers on the moment they lost their family
Said fled Afghanistan with his wife and seven children. Only he and his nine-year-old son Wali Khan made it to Britain. Their life in Derby is precarious and for Said, who is struggling to learn English, lonely. We will follow this...
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The pig superbug and the baby
How did the antibiotic resistant pig superbug LA-MRSA find its way onto the umbilical cords of new born babies in Glasgow - and onto the shelves of our biggest supermarkets. Watch the Guardian’s investigation into how intensive pig...
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Do cyclists think they're above the law, and does it even matter
Cyclists can be a nuisance, running red lights, riding on the pavement ... but are they dangerous, and if not, is it a problem if they break the law? Peter Wallker, Guardian journalist and author of Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the...
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Chili Pepper Goes to the Vet
When Chili Pepper the Patagonian Cavy displayed something unusual he needed to be seen by a veterinarian. Join Jessi and Chili Pepper on their adventure to the vet!
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5 Signs Your Bird is Sick
Jessi shares 5 ways to tell if your bird might be sick. Featuring lots of the birds at Animal Wonders (that aren't sick, just happy to join in the fun of the day)
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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 Apathy? How To Break Past It.
Apathy is one of those mental states that can be very debilitating. You really don’t care about anything. Apathy can be defined as reduced motivation to engage in goal-directed activities across 3 domains: Initiative, Interest and...
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The Truth About Testosterone And Depression
Testosterone deficiency is a common cause of depression in men and can often go unrecognized. As a psychiatrist, what I see is the either the depressed man who doesn’t get enough improvement with antidepressants or the man who is not...
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When Tricyclic Antidepressants May Be Your Better Option
Depression can be a debilitating condition, but for some people, tricyclic antidepressants may be a better option. In this video, I talk about the pros and cons of tricyclic antidepressants and how they may be a better choice for some...
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What is Treatment Resistant Depression? What Do We Do about it?
Treatment resistant depression is defined as having 2 failed, 6-week antidepressant trials. Another way of putting is, you have depression, you take medication for at least 6 weeks and you don’t get better. Then you try another...
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What is Narcolepsy and What to Do About It?
What is narcolepsy? It’s a neurological disorder that results when your brain is unable to regulate your sleep wake cycle. In this video I will discuss how to recognize narcolepsy and how it is treated. Two of the classic symptoms are...
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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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The Adderall Effect: Strategies for Minimizing the Crash
The Adderall Effect: Strategies for Minimizing the Crash
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What Causes Treatment Resistant Depression?
If you can't seem to get better from your depression treatment. There my be other factors that are contributing that you may be able to change. In this video we look at other causes of depression.
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Science Tools
The video “Science Tools” identifies tools that scientists use and describes how to use those tools.
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Ketamine for depression - A Powerful but Tricky Solution
Ketamine is a very powerful anesthetic drug that’s made it’s way into psychiatry. In this video I talk in detail about how Ketamine is used to treat depression. Ketamine is known on the street as special K. It’s a hallucinogen and...
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6 Misconceptions People With Health Anxiety Have
Health anxiety is a term that combines two disorders from the DSM-5: somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. Previous versions of the DSM called it hypochondriasis. And from this term came the pejorative label,...
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Depression vs. Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - How To Tell The Difference
In this video, I go over the difference between the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and depression with psychosis. I also define negative vs. positive symptoms. Eugen Bleuler expanded our understanding of schizophrenia by introducing...
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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...