What is depression? Is it a disease? A mental disorder? A brain dysfunction? A psychological syndrome? An existential or spiritual crisis? Several of my fellow PT bloggers posted on depression recently. I want to discuss depression here as a clinical and forensic psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy for more than three decades.
For me, the [...]
Every student learns the definition of what is termed, “Bipolar Disorder,” as the next disorder after depression and manic moods in a typical curriculum course. It seems logical that one mood disorder would simply relate to another mutant disorder with similar behaviors, similar to the way we classify animals. If you go through a traditional [...]
The 8-Week Challenge
OK worriers. Here is the challenge for you. I will dedicate this blog for the next eight weeks to giving you the tools to get a handle on your worries. But it’s going to require some work. Are you willing to actually do something to deal with your worries?
All of us worry at [...]
Why are Americans so gloomy? It may be all about the yoked dog and “learned helplessness.”
We have a market paradox on our hands. Consumer confidence is close to a 40-year low, suggesting that the economy is in worse shape now than in times that seemed far darker, such as the early 1980s, when both inflation [...]
Postpartum depression usually occurs because your body gave up the oils in your brain (which come from fish oil) so the baby could make its brain. That was nicely self sacrificing of you, but you need to eat more fish so your brain will recover—and it [...]
