If you don’t have mental health, you don’t have shit. You would think a mental health professional with twelve years experience would know that by now. Last week I went to lunch with “Tom,” a colleague of sorts, and ended up losing 7.5 minutes of my lifespan, despite the $16.78 saved when he picked up [...]
Do you see yourself in Nervous Nellie?: “I’m paralyzed with fear when I think of everyone judging me, and talking negatively about my presentation…Like public speaking is a walk in the park.” Hmm…sounds like a walk in the Reverse Narcissism park to me. Huh? As a psychotherapist, I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t know if [...]
We’re infantilizing our kids into incompetence.~Lenore Skenazy One of my goals as a mom (besides supporting my athletically gifted meal-ticket son, and ridding him of Social Anxiety) is finding the parenting middle-ground. What I’m seeking is much less neurotic than the Stealth Fighter Parents, and nowhere close to the neglectful, Invisible Parents I’ve too often seen [...]
Check out this simple way to lower anxiety without Xanax or talk therapy. {Cue the dun, duh, dun, duh, DONE drum roll} Click the unsubscribe option at the bottom of your non-essential email. 90 trillion e-mails, or 247 billion email messages a day, made their way through cyberspace in 2009. That’s a lot of mental [...]
This is a story about my son, his social anxiety, and a puppy named Ca$h. Maybe it will help you understand your kid’s social issues, though I don’t recommend buying a Siberian husky…especially if a laidback cat, or a low-maintenance goldfish will do. I’ll get to the canines in a bit. What is social anxiety [...]
“Dude. She never shaved her legs. That’s just too organic for me.” ~Some not-so-green Guy. While Googling “organic” for an upcoming Anxiety presentation for mental health professionals, I inadvertently typed “organax.” Xanax was on the mind, but not the brain. The anti-anxiety medication Xanax, and its generic form Alprazolam, is the most commonly prescribed psycho-pharmaceutical [...]
I help people feel less anxious. I also help parents get their kids to behave without the power struggles. This psychotherapy blog is one way I reach people, the other being my private practice in Los Angeles, CA. Supervising Master of Social Work interns so they don’t suck at psychotherapy is another passion ;-) If you are looking for solutions to anxiety, you’ve come to the right place.
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