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 »
Introduction You might expect children or young adults to be the most at risk of mobile-phone addiction. But increasingly, older adults—our parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles—are becoming just as (or more) glued to their phones. They spend hours scrolling, watching videos, clicking links. They believe messages on WhatsApp, forward every ‘urgent’ note, and then fall …
Today, we’re diving deep into a topic that is probably the single most painful and secretive emotion I encounter in my consulting room: shame. Now, I don’t mean a quick flush of embarrassment when you trip on the stairs. I’m talking about a pervasive, deep-seated conviction that you are fundamentally, irreversibly bad or broken. When …
You start a task, and within seconds—bam!—your attention jumps to something else. Maybe it’s your phone, an email notification, or just a random thought about what you’ll have for dinner. Before you know it, you’ve spent an hour doing everything except what you originally intended. Sound familiar? You might be dealing with Inattentive ADD. What …
Ever feel like your mind is in a million places at once? Read More »
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 …
What Is EMDR? (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Read More »