Our minds can sometimes feel like a battleground of different thoughts competing with one another. In this exercise, you’ll be asked to write a fictional dialogue between your…
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Read more Social Anxiety Hierarchy Worksheet (PDF)About four years ago, a new patient came to see me for a psychiatric consultation because he felt stuck. He’d been in therapy for 15 years, despite the…
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Read more Explain Yourself: The Healthy Challenge of Describing Your BeliefsHere is a straightforward, clinical description of a migraine: intense throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise, lasting for hours or days. And here is…
Read more It’s the Best Time in History to Have a MigraineIn the 1970s, they tried lithium. Then it was zinc and THC. Anti-anxiety drugs had their turn. So did Prozac and SSRIs and atypical antidepressants. Nothing worked. Patients…
Read more We Have No Drugs to Treat the Deadliest Eating DisorderThis article originally appeared in Undark Magazine. For one week of every month, I have a very bad time. My back aches so badly I struggle to stand…
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