Major Depressive Disorder, or MDD, is a common mental health diagnosis, and can include the following experiences: depressed mood loss of interest or pleasure in activities significant weight loss or weight gain disrupted sleep or sleeping too much agitation or
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Trauma therapy is a kind of psychotherapy or mental health counseling designed to eliminate symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD. There are several types of trauma focused therapy, and some work better than others. Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Cognitive
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To feel happy, we need to believe in our own worth – to believe we deserve to be treated with respect and to be understood. Self-esteem can be high, low or even negative, and esteem-related beliefs are often disrupted following
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Andrew L. Martin, PsyD I’d like to introduce you to a new form of therapy with which you may be unfamiliar – called psychodynamic therapy. Psychodynamic therapy is an evidence-based (meaning there is a lot of research proving it works)
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Andrew L. Martin, PsyD You have the right to express your feelings, to ask for what you want, and to say no. Assertive communication means doing so respectfully, so that others will actually hear you, and without having to justify
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Andrew L. Martin, PsyD Will robots or Artificial Intelligence (AI) completely replace therapists one day? I think so, although probably not in our lifetimes. For now, mental health care includes AI in small ways, such as telehealth, self-help computer applications,
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Andrew L. Martin, PsyD Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a structured psychotherapy designed to cure post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). CPT cures PTSD at a rate of about 70%, which means at the end of treatment, 70% of patients report their
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Andrew L. Martin, PsyD. We've known for a long time that activity in the thought and emotion centers of the brain can dramatically affect how much pain we experience from injuries, disease, or normal aging. In fact, clinical psychologists treat
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In our society, living in a larger body can come with unfair discrimination and stigma. That stigma can be internalized as poor self-esteem, because we are frequently told, or think ourselves, that our weight is totally our fault, or a
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Jenny L. F. Andrus, MD “Psychogenic pain” is pain that doesn’t have a directly attributable physical cause, like a broken bone or a cut on a finger. There is no distinguishable reason for the pain to exist, but it
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