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Fear of Losing Control: What It Is and How to Overcome It
What happens when you're afraid of losing control? Do you freak out, feel paralyzed, or do something else? In this video, I talk about what can happen when we fear losing control and offer some tips for how to deal with it.
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How to Deal with Negative Emotions - Distress Tolerance
I’ve talked about dialectical behavior therapy or DBT as the best treatment for borderline personality disorder. But modified forms of DBT can be helpful for other conditions like bipolar disorder, anxiety, eating disorders, depression...
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How Brain Games Can Reduce Your Anxiety and Depression
Did you know that uncontrollable worry is an anxiety disorder that typically starts in childhood? It’s a disorder that is usually life long and comes and goes over the course of your life. Uncontrolled worry is one of the hallmarks of...
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Here’s What Keeps You Socially Anxious and How to Stop It
People with social anxiety disorder fear negative criticism in social and performance situations. You fear that you will act in a way that is humiliating or embarrassing. To deal with your fear, you develop safety behaviors to eliminate...
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How Trauma Changes Your Thinking
I talked in a previous video about how trauma affects how you store memories. Traumatic experiences can also affect how you perceive things and cause you to have what we call cognitive distortions. These distortions are especially...
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Love jihad: India's lethal religious conspiracy theory
The mutilated body of a 24-year-old Muslim, Arbaaz Aftab Mullah, was discovered on a railway track near his home. His family believe he was murdered because of his interfaith relationship with a Hindu woman and that he is one of the...
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Akala tells Owen Jones: ‘The black-on-black violence narrative is rooted in empire
Akala talks to the Guardian’s Owen Jones about the dangerous legacy of empire, which he argues is directly linked to the black-on-black violence narrative around knife crime in the UK today. The musician and author says he does not...
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Bitten
Zoe the Amazon parrot is biting Jessi, but that doesn't mean Jessi stops working with her. Jessi shares why the behavior is occurring and how she works through the situation to continue giving her what she needs.
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Ask Jessi 10!
Jessi answers questions from viewers. Who's she most proud of, interesting animal quirks, how to tell if an animal is stressed, favorite food? She answers them and more.
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Guilty Dog?
Jessi is joined by Ruby the dog as they explore the guilty dog look and what it really means.
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Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder aka Multiple Personality Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder develops when person fails to form a total personality that integrates all aspects of yourself and your emotions. For more on dissociative states watch this video on depersonalization. What Is...
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What Is Agoraphobia Like - How Do You Help It?
What is agoraphobia like and how to help it? Agoraphobia is the fear of being in certain places where you have anxiety and are unable to escape or get help. The diagnostic manual for mental disorders lists five kinds of places that you...
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What is Existential Anxiety?
Do you sometimes feel like life is meaningless? That everything you do doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things? If so, you might be experiencing existential anxiety. In this video, I'll explain what existential anxiety is,...
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What is Anxious Depression?
Anxiety and depression often come together. And there's different ways this can look. Sometimes anxiety spawns depression, where you start off with something like obsessive compulsive disorder where you have these overwhelming thoughts...
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What are Panic Attacks – Why You Get them?
Panic attacks are a sudden onset of intense anxiety. Sometimes when you get anxious, you can feel uptight or on edge. Or you may worry about things. Panic is different. You have a surge of intense fear or physical symptoms that come on...
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Two Tips for Health Anxiety
The clinical term for health anxiety used to be hypochondriasis, but now it’s been split into two disorders, somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. With health anxiety you are oversensitive to body sensations and fear you...
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Stress Versus Anxiety: How This Herb May Help
Some people will use stress and anxiety interchangeably, but stress and anxiety are not the same, there are some distinct differences between the two. Why does is matter? One reason is because there’s an herbal remedy that’s gaining a...
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Signs You Might Be Struggling With Scrupulosity (Religious OCD)
Do you sometimes feel like you're being too hard on yourself? That maybe your thoughts and feelings just don't line up with what everyone else seems to believe? If so, you might be struggling with scrupulosity. In this video, I talk...
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OCD Intrusive Thoughts: 4 Examples and A Look Into Compulsions
Obsessive compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder whereby you have either obsessions or compulsions or both. Most people have both but you can have one or the other. Some people use the term Pure O OCD to refer to only having...
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Social Anxiety Disorder vs Shyness - How to Fix It
Are you Socially Anxious? What’s the difference between social anxiety disorder and being shy? That’s what I’m discuss in this video. I also discuss how we treat social anxiety disorder. I discuss the medications we use in social anxiety...
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5 Ways to Manage Coronavirus Anxiety - COVID-19
The current state of things with the fast spread of COVID-19 puts everyone in a place of heightened anxiety and fear. I’ve seen 3 negative reactions to this pandemic: Fear of getting sick or spreading it to someone in your life who is...
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Always Angry? Try This Technique Before The Next Blow Up
Do you find yourself always angry? Here's how to analyze your blow ups and see what’s behind the anger. Understanding what’s lies below the surface trigger can help you defuse the blow ups.
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Anxiety vs Mania – How To Tell The Difference
Anxiety disorders can occur along with bipolar disorder and there is some overlap in the way anxiety and mania look that it's not always clear which it is. Why does this matter? Because one of the ways people can remain stable with...
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British English Pronunciation Practice - "Inconsistent" Poem & Explanation
British English pronunciation is notoriously tricky. To honor some of the nuances of its "inconsistent" pronunciation I wrote a little poem. Mastering pronunciation requires consistent and focused practice.