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Evidence-Based Treatment Guidelines for Anxiety Disorders

July 3, 2018 September 24, 2022 / Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Mental Health, Mental Illness, OCD, Psychiatric Medication, Social Anxiety, Social Anxiety Disorder / 29 Comments

In this post, I’ll take a look at some of the available guidelines for evidence-based treatment of anxiety disorders. While psychotherapies are extremely important in the management of anxiety disorders, this post will focus only on anti-anxiety medications. The treatment guidelines I refer to come from the British Association for Psychopharmacology and the World Federation …

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Book Review: Lost Connections by Johann Hari

May 15, 2018 September 16, 2022 / Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Psychiatric Medication / 22 Comments

In Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions, Johann Hari takes a stand against the idea of biological causation of depression and anxiety. I expected going in that I would disagree with what Hari had to say, but it surpassed my expectations. To start off, let me tell you …

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Book Review: A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes

May 8, 2018 July 30, 2022 / Anxiety, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Stigma / 9 Comments

In A Series of Unfortunate Stereotypes: Naming and Shaming Mental Health Stigmas, author Lucy Nichol invites us to join her in breaking down stereotypes until we’re ready to say “Stigma? What a load of old shit!” I loved the no-BS tone, with expletives liberally strewn throughout (any time an f-bomb is dropped by page 7, …

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Book Review: Mindfulness For Bipolar Disorder

March 9, 2018 August 9, 2022 / Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Books, Depression, Meditation, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mindfulness, Mood Disorder / 4 Comments

Mindfulness for Bipolar Disorder by Dr. William R. Marchand lays out specific areas for mindfulness practices that be useful in managing bipolar disorder symptoms. Much of the book would also be applicable to other mood disorders. I believe mindfulness can be a really helpful thing to incorporate into one’s life; however, along with the good stuff …

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Mental illness stigma and pathologizing normal human experience

Mental Illness Stigma and Pathologizing Normal Experiences

March 1, 2018 August 13, 2022 / Anxiety, Depression, DSM, Emotions, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Social Anxiety, Social Anxiety Disorder, Stigma / 22 Comments

Mental illness stigma comes from many places and in many forms. Stigma often invalidates the experience of those of us with mental illness. One way this can happen is by pathologizing normal human experiences. By this, I mean inflating the significance of “normal” emotions and minimizing the significance of mental illness to make it seems …

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Psych Meds 101 series: Anti-anxiety meds, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and sleep meds

Psych Meds 101: Anti-Anxiety Meds

December 19, 2017 August 3, 2022 / Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Medication, Psychiatric Treatment, Side Effects / 3 Comments

Part 4 in a series of posts on how psych meds work

“It’s All In Your Head”: Physical Symptoms and Mental Illness

November 4, 2017 August 13, 2022 / Anxiety, Brain, Fight Flight Freeze, Health Care, Health Professionals, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Stigma / 5 Comments

Let’s think about the phrases “it’s just anxiety” and “it’s all in your head”. Let’s unpack them and consider them in terms of what we know about the brain and the body.