This post is directed at those who are contemplating or already receiving treatment for depression. I would like to share with you some suggestions about how you can optimize the effectiveness of the treatment for depression. These suggestions are based on both published research and from my experience as a ...
Date Posted: July 18, 2013
Categories: Depression
Written By:
Brian Scott
Why it is important to understand the causes of clinical depression?
Understanding what causes depression enables one to design the optimal treatment plan. For example, if you moved from the tropics to Canada and did not see the sun for days at a time then, your psychotherapist might point out ...
Jul 3
Categories: Depression
Written By:
Brian Scott
Last night, a few of my friends met up an accident prior to their arrival in the restaurant where we set a dinner fellowship. Already delayed, they still had to go to the police station to file a report. When, finally, they arrived, I was smiling at them. Jokingly, I asked them, "What lesson ...
Jun 15
Categories: Adult psychological development, Self-Care / Self Compassion, ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
One of the most painful events that can happen in a committed relationship such as marriage is to discover that your partner has been intimate with someone else. If this has happened to you, or you are the unfaithful partner, let me assure you that there is hope that the relationship can be ...
Jun 13
Categories: Infidelity, Relationships & Marriage
Written By:
Brian Scott
All people will die. We all go to the grave, sooner or later. No one is exempted. Death then is an "anxiety" common to the entire humankind regardless of one's status in life.
I'm reminded of my younger sister who died several years ago. While speaking to her in the ICU ...
Jun 1
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Anxiety, Bereavement
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
I do many of my psychotherapy sessions in the coffee shop. That may sound surprising and even strange to you. Especially, if you're the traditional type who dislikes innovation or "outside the box." ...
May 27
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Happiness, Life Purpose / Meaning / ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Many people who are codependent do not value and love themselves, their Self, because they have learned in their family of origin that they were of little value or even worse that they were bad. Fortunately there are ways you can learn to reverse this kind of early negative conditioning.
One way ...
May 21
Categories: Self-Care / Self Compassion, Self-Love
Written By:
Brian Scott
It’s well known that exercise is an effective treatment for depression, but recent research has enabled psychiatrists to give guidance on precisely how much exercise is enough exercise to give the desired results when treating depression. So how are therapists using exercise in their treatment regimes, and should they be using it ...
May 14
Categories: Happiness
GOThe power of art to transform people’s lives is well known. Art has been used as a breakthrough technique to reach a patient’s deepest fears, and their most closely guarded emotions. By representing emotions wordlessly, a barrier is lowered, allowing patients to express things that they cannot bring themselves to say, either ...
May 13
Categories: Stress Management
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In 1966, the Beatles wrote about Eleanor Rigby and the lonliness and depression she experienced:
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Loneliness is something that ...
May 10
Categories: Attachment Issues, Bullying, Codependency / Dependency, Depression, ...
Written By:
Joanna Fishman
The first thing I noticed about Tom was his large frame and piercing eyes. He had come to call me on my mobile phone a few hours ago. And now, we were in a hotel, drinking coffee, and eventually past the pleasantries.He reached for the marrow of his purpose for meeting me. “I need help for ...
May 2
Categories: Addictions, Attachment Issues, Infidelity
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Each of us is alone. In our human existence, aloneness is an inevitable fact of life. We entered this world alone. We will exit this world alone.I've discovered in my life and in the life of others that how we embrace our aloneness determines whether it will be toxic or nourishing.Toxic ...
May 1
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
There is this man who claims he has no money for therapy. He owns a car and condominium unit, smokes 3 packs of cigarettes a day, and dines out in expensive restaurants. If he sets aside funds even just by stopping smoking, he could afford to pay for his weekly personal therapy.Doctors ...
Apr 29
Categories: Happiness, Self-Care / Self Compassion
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Feelings are a crucial part of the inner life. When one is psychologically disturbed or traumatized, feelings become vulnerable. A person may lose touch of the reality of his feelings. He can be alienated from his feelings.Yet these feelings don't go away. They continue to appear or surface. ...
Apr 27
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Emotional Abuse
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
I’m reminded of one of Dr. Sigmund Freud’s psychodynamic concepts, “ego defenses.” Ego defenses are inhibiting internal mechanisms that prevent us from “knowing” early emotional pain through rationalizing, analyzing, explaining away, minimizing, ...
Apr 23
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
This new century has brought with it the topic of climate change as a constant in the news media. A controversial and complex topic, it involves discerning the potential contributions of solar radiation, continental drift, and greenhouse gas concentrations to the changing levels of vegetation, ...
Apr 23
Categories: Obsessions & Compulsions (OCD)
Written By:
Tony Brown
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