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#ItsOkayToTalk
Posted: September 03, 2016 by [email protected]
Did you know that men commit suicide 3.5x more often than women? Globally, 510,000 men die from suicide each year – that’s one every minute.
Tags: mood and feelings, relationship and family, anxiety
Read MoreWinter is Coming: Time to Treat Seasonal Affective Disorder
Posted: November 09, 2015 by [email protected]
We are over a week removed from turning our clocks back, throwing all of our circadian rhythms completely out of whack. Cooler air and more rain are accompanying darker days, and we have approximately seven months of grey skies to look forward to. It is a perfect environment for many Portlanders to experience a Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Tags: mood and feelings, anxiety
Read MoreHave You Diagnosed Yourself Lately?
Posted: September 25, 2015 by Nani Waddoups
New clients in my practice often introduce themselves by including their self-diagnoses: “I’m OCD,” “I have Anxiety Disorder,” “I think I’m Bi-Polar.” I understand the temptation to label our thoughts and moods and behaviors as a way to simplify our understanding of ourselves, but this simplification robs us of celebrating the complexity and nuance of who we are, and can minimize the significance of these diagnoses for people who really have them.
Tags: mood and feelings, anxiety
Read MoreNever Enough Time: Allowing for Unstructured Unfolding
Posted: July 25, 2015 by Nani Waddoups
Right now, in this moment, I am writing about time. It is somewhat difficult to stay present as I write. My mind can easily “future trip” into imagining you, the reader, reading what I am currently writing. I can also find my focus interrupted by voices: the voice of an editor, the voice of the critic – “Sure has been a while since you’ve done a newsletter!” Most disruptive to my efforts to stay here, right now, writing about time, is a low-grade anxious hum emanating from deep within me, and the message of that hum is that I really don’t have time to be sitting here writing about time.
Tags: mood and feelings, anxiety
Read MoreYour Brain
Posted: April 20, 2015 by Amanda Feaver, MA, LPC
Since our brain drives us, it’s important to understand it. If you're interested in your brain and you haven't read Mindsight by Dr. Daniel Siegel, you should. (Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute.)
Tags: mood and feelings, relationship and family, anxiety, addiction and behavior
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