Today you’ll learn three skills for better understanding lost memories, also known as dissociative amnesia or repressed memories. Or at least you’re going to learn
If one of your family members has a mental illness, does that mean you’re more likely to have it too? Can you inherit a mental illness from a parent?
In this video we’re going to talk about heritability estimates, what the research has to tell us about how much genes contribute to mental health. You’ll learn which disorders have the highest rates of heritability and how understanding this can help you make better choices.
If you’re right in the middle of a panic attack, this blog post is for you. I’ll walk you through how to know if it’s
When you learn how grief shows up in your body, you can be more equipped to address it and work through the process of grief
If you’re right in the middle of an anxiety attack, this post is for you. You may feel overwhelmed or be freaking out. Maybe you’re
There are essentially three states of your nervous system: the ventral vagal, which is safe and social; the sympathetic, which is fight or flight; and
In this video we’ll look at six types of thinking that feed OCD. They make it worse. And the reason we look at these is
If you want to learn how to worry less you need to understand why your brain likes to worry because that will free you to
What if depression isn’t just some brain defect or a chemical imbalance but it’s actually a message to you that there’s something not right in
A chemical imbalance is not “The Cause” of depression. We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are. This is the main idea
In the last post we talked about four ways traumatic memories differ from regular memories, and in this post we’ll cover four ways you can
In this post we’ll talk about how PTSD and trauma change your memories and three things you can do to soften or treat traumatic memories
