Mental Health Tips
Mental Health Stresses of Adolescence
The adolescent years are challenging even in relatively problem-free famiies. All bets are off, and what had been true for ten or eleven years is suddenly not true. The well-behaved child now questions every directive, forgets chores, and…
How CBT Was Born
Mary Cover Jones used behavior therapy with fearful children in the 1920s, and in the late 1930s, an American psychiatrist, Abraham Low, used cognitive training for psychiatric aftercare of patients following their release from hospitals. One can see…
Is your mental health damaging your life?
Can you imagine a life in which you turn away from negative news in the environment and avoid monopolizing the conversation with long litanies concerning your life’s dark pitfalls? If you can imagine such an existence, you may…
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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Have you ever felt hopeless, like you are forever caught in a quagmire of mental spins that lead you nowhere, except to unhappiness and more hopelessness? Do you find yourself acquiring more and more labels for the various…
How can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Help?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a type of psychosocial therapy that assumes the individual seeking treatment has maladaptive, or counterproductive, thinking patterns, which in turn cause maladaptive behavior and “negative” emotions. This type of therapy involves education, skill-building, and…
Moment-by-Moment Mindfulness
CBT clinicians have found that techniques drawn from centuries-old Eastern philosophies are helpful in quieting an overactive mind. A deliberate combination of breathing, meditation, and acceptance of a situation greatly quiets a person, often leading to much improved…
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What Is Depression?
According to Barsky and Deans, authors of Stop Being Your Symptoms and Start Being Yourself, depression is the experience of feeling sad for two weeks or longer with an accompanying loss of interest in life around…
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Have you ever felt hopeless, like you are forever caught in a quagmire of mental spins that lead you nowhere, except to unhappiness and more hopelessness? Do you find yourself acquiring more and more labels for the various…
What about Suicidal Thoughts?
In his book, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders, Aaron Beck eloquently describes his work with a young teenager who was suicidal. The young boy was alarmingly negative, and his parents and school officials were concerned about his…