I’ve been a therapist more than 20 years, and I can still get tripped up teasing out generalized anxiety disorder from obsessive compulsive disorder (and many times people have both).
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I’m going to preface this article with making sure we all know my perspective. I’m a licensed therapist who specializes in treating adults with anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder.
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As we continue our journey into distress tolerance, I want to give you actions that help illustrate what it means in everyday life. Most anxiety relief tips actually give you
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A recent CNN article caught my attention: OCD isn’t just about being a neat freak. And for those with it, this next stage of the pandemic may be hard. I’ve
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In your brain, there’s this area called the amygdala. Understanding the amygdala is important when we talk about anxiety and OCD because this little cluster is your body’s alarm system.
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Has someone ever told you, “you’ll have to live with your OCD forever?” It’s one of my pet peeves. First of all, it’s not true. Second of all, it doesn’t
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As I was getting ready to leave for vacation, this article appeared in my feed: Why You Should Always Take a Photo of Your Stove Before You Go on Vacation.
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The concept of imposter syndrome was originated by psychologists Pauline Rose Clance, PhD and Suzanne Imes, PhD in 1978. They called it “imposter phenomenon,” and their study focused on women
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When most people think about anxiety, they probably inherently think women. When some men think about therapy, they picture mining their past and endlessly talking about “how they feel about
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Here’s a little story for you. I thought I was fairly distress tolerant … until we had to do rowing time trials at the end of a grueling workout. I
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Recently I’ve become a bit obsessed with the idea of distress tolerance. It’s “An individual’s perceived or actual ability to withstand negative emotional or physical states” (Brown, Lejuez, Kahler, Strong
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In my last article, I talked about Dr. Sally Winston’s notion of the “while.” Essentially, Dr. Winston suggests that we feel the feelings WHILE we take the action. You don’t
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