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Bipolar vs. Schizophrenia By Lauren Walters - 1 min read in www.psychcentral.com [caption id="attachment_1667" align="alignnone" width="300"] Bipolar versus Schizophrenia[/caption] Introduction According to healthline.com, “Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are two different chronic mental disorders. People can sometimes mistake the symptoms of bipolar disorder for schizophrenia symptoms.” To explain further according to this specific source, Bipolar Disorder and schizophrenia can be confused...[ read more ]

[caption id="attachment_1297" align="aligncenter" width="300"] What Social Anxiety Feels Like and Where It Comes From[/caption] What Social Anxiety Feels Like and Where It Comes From March 31, 2016 • By Ben Ringler, MFT, GoodTherapy.org Topic Expert Contributor Do you often dread parties, anxiously fearing awkward conversations that expose the contents of your mind for all to see? Do you cringe at...[ read more ]

Emotionally Prepare for a Hurricane By American Psychological Association [caption id="attachment_1240" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Emotionally Prepare for a Hurricane / Anxiety Tips[/caption] Emotionally Prepare for a Hurricane / Anxiety Tips ~ 2 min read Preparing for and anticipating the arrival of a large-scale hurricane can be distressing for people living in the hurricane’s path. There may be uncertainty ahead about your...[ read more ]

By Annabella Hagen, LCSW, RPT-S ~ 3 min read [caption id="attachment_1092" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Two Ways to Put the Brakes on Your Anxiety[/caption] Two Ways to Put the Brakes on Your Anxiety Our human instinct is to react and push back when we feel pain and discomfort. When we struggle with anxiety, those feelings are magnified. Our inherent response is to...[ read more ]

By Suzanne Kane on www.psychcentral.com   ~ 2 min read [caption id="attachment_728" align="alignnone" width="300"] 7 Tips on Mastering Change - Need Help with Change - Contact Dr. April[/caption] You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master...[ read more ]

If You’re Saying These 5 Things, You’re Hurting Your Kid By Peg Streep ~ 4 min read in www.psychcentral.com I am on the corner of 72nd and First Avenue, standing next to a father and a little boy about six or seven. He is wearing a baseball uniform, and carrying a bat, and weeping uncontrollably. The father’s voice is loud...[ read more ]

By Dr. April Brown #FEARS Have you ever had big dreams and goals?  Of course you have... So where are you now in relation to your big dreams and goals? If you are not moving toward them, then somehow you got distracted.  Many times, we lose focus because FEAR wants to battle with us.  FEAR can have you so stuck...[ read more ]

7 Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence By Leslie Santana from www.Psycentral.com ~ 2 min read improve your emotional intelligenceHoward Gardner argued that instead of intelligence being a single ability, humans have the ability to develop multiple intelligences, nine to be exact. Some people have a natural proficiency in emotional or interpersonal intelligence; others have difficulty with this. Although this...[ read more ]

Calming Anxious Children - 37 Techniques From Psych Central By Renee Jain, MAPP ~ 12 min read   Imagine, you are driving in the car. You look in the rearview mirror and see your child trying to shrink into her seat. What’s wrong?” you ask. “I don’t want to go to the birthday party.” “But you’ve been excited all week....[ read more ]

By JoEllen Notte for YourTango.com ~ 6 min read No one teaches us how to navigate a relationship when mental illness enters the equation. I recently read a Washington Post article by a woman whose relationship was torn apart while she and her partner tried to deal with his depression. My personal take is that the author simply wasn’t equipped...[ read more ]