Being a child or adolescent today can be incredibly challenging. Children and adolescents deal with the pressure to perform well in school and extracurricular activities, be accepted by their peers, and adhere to family expectations. While trying to find their place in the world, they receive contradictory information about how to look, act, and interact. Although […]
Many of us think of anxiety and depression as separate disorders characterized by different symptoms. Anxiety is usually described as the experience of being stressed, scared, or worried. We also often hear about the physical experiences of anxiety, including difficulty breathing, a racing heart, shakiness, or stomach upset. Depression is typically experienced as sadness, hopelessness, […]
Exposure therapy is helpful to treat a wide-range of anxiety and OCD-related disorders. The purpose of exposure therapy is to change behavior. When using exposure therapy, you challenge yourself to do things differently to eventually create less suffering. To learn to do things differently, you must first be tempted to do what you normally would. […]
