A mother recently sat across from me in my clinic, her voice trembling with worry: “Doctor, my son just stays locked in his room all day. He doesn’t study, doesn’t work, barely eats, and when we ask him to do something, he gets irritated or angry. Is this just laziness or something else?” If you’ve …
He’s Always Alone, Not Studying, Not Working — Is It Laziness or Something Deeper? Read More »
Know someone who has a paranoid worldview and is intensely suspicious and untrusting of others? Here’s how to identify PPD and assist your loved one in receiving care. What is paranoid personality disorder (PPD)? A long-term habit of mistrust and suspicion of people without good cause is a sign of paranoid personality disorder (PPD), a …
Panic disorder affects around a quarter of individuals who see their doctor for treatment of chest discomfort. Patients with chest discomfort typically go undiagnosed and untreated for panic disorder, resulting in frequent visits and significant morbidity. A panic attack is a brief period of high anxiety accompanied by fearful bodily feelings. A racing heart, shortness …
Martin Seligman and Steven F. Maier, psychologists, accidently developed the notion of learned helplessness. They had first noticed such behaviour in dogs that had been trained to expect an electrical shock when they heard a tone. The dogs were eventually placed in a shuttlebox with two chambers separated by a modest barrier. One half of …
The mind, like the body, has the ability to cure itself organically. Much of this natural coping strategy happens while you’re sleeping, especially during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In 1987, Francine Shapiro created Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a natural approach for treating PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Since then, EMDR has been successfully …
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