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The Signs of Complicated Grief (Spotting the Symptoms)
Healing from grief is usually a long slow process, and what we think of as typical grief would be an experience that may start out intensely sad and negative and then overtime becomes less sad and with more positive reflections on the...
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Three Signs Your Mania Is Coming (The Manic Prodrome)
What are the early signs that you're getting ready to have a manic episode? We call these early signs the prodrome. Being able to detect early signs of a manic episode can be helpful in either preventing the episode or lessening the...
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Subclinical Psychosis – Can You Be A Little Psychotic?
Subclinical psychosis is a term some researchers have used to describe psychotic symptoms in people who don’t have a primary psychotic illness or as a way to identify people who are prone to later get a psychotic illness. It’s not really...
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What Is Depersonalization Derealization Disorder?
Depersonalization is defined as feeling unreal and detached from your body’s thoughts, sensation and actions. It’s like you’re observing yourself and your thoughts. Things don’t seem real. Derealization is defined as feeling unreal and...
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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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Two Things You Can Do To Stop Ruminating
The term ruminate means to run a thought over and over in your mind. This is the figurative definition. The literal definition refers to cows regurgitating their food to chew it over and over. Rumination is not a diagnosis all to itself,...
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The Science of Emotion Regulation: How Our Brains Process Emotions
Have you ever walked into a room and felt suddenly sad or anxious and have no idea why you're feeling that way because no one’s around? Your brain can activate strong emotions without you being aware of why you feel that way. This video...
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Ketamine for depression - A Powerful but Tricky Solution
Ketamine is a very powerful anesthetic drug that’s made it’s way into psychiatry. In this video I talk in detail about how Ketamine is used to treat depression. Ketamine is known on the street as special K. It’s a hallucinogen and...
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3 Signs That Most Depressed People Have
Depression comes with a number of symptoms that that cause a certain level of impairment in your day to day functioning. I talk about what it means to have functional impairment in this video on What is a Normal Depression? So anyone of...
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10 Subtle Signs You May Be Depressed
Here are 10 ways that depression can look. Anyone of these in isolation doesn’t have to mean that you are depressed, but it can be a signal to take a deeper look into whether you or your loved one may really be depressed. 1. Apathy and...
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Deja vu and Delusional Misidentification – How Do These Happen?
Déjà vu is French for the term “already seen.” Déjà vu is the misperception that something new is familiar. It can be a place that you go and feel like you’ve been there before even though you can’t recall any details from a prior...
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Can You Actually Die From a Panic Attack? How Danger Symptoms Fool You
Do you know the danger symptoms of a panic attack? Many people don't. In this video, I talk about how danger symptoms can fool you into thinking you're having a heart attack or some other life-threatening emergency. If you or someone you...
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Bipolar Disorder and the Imposter Syndrome
When you are feeling well, have you ever felt like your depression or mania was just a scam? This video is based on a viewer question asking about feeling like she is an imposter when she is in between episodes. I discuss three possible...
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Anxiety Cells Found in the Brain - How They Did It
Researchers have found the origin of anxiety in the hippocampus of mice. This has far-reaching effects on how we look at and treat anxiety in humans. Neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center and University of California San...
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Claim Your Emotions: How to Identify and Name What You're Feeling
Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a...
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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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How to speak to a DOCTOR in French
Understanding the French healthcare system can be tricky, but after watching this video, you'll have all the French vocabulary you'll need to be able to speak to a doctor in French. Whether you need to go to doctors in France or a french...
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Fact and Opinion
Fact and Opinion distinguishes between fact and opinion by citing evidence of each.
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Coleslaw
Once again the grater will be used in the preparation of Coach Socrates’ recipe. Today’s treat – Coach Socrates’ famous Coleslaw.
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Does Wealth Make You Meaner?
Books and movies love to show wealthy people as cruel, unfeeling, and miserly. Turns out science has an explanation for why greater amounts of wealth can turn us into Scrooges. Should you just avoid growing your wealth… or is there a...
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Confused about how much to tip? Here is a detailed guide
There are many unspoken rules about tipping that have always caused a bit of confusion. Those rules have evolved in recent years due to technological advances and the pandemic. So how much should you tip? We break it all down for you.
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Looking for Clues
Poet and independent scholar Jennifer Michael Hecht shares her views of how cultural ideas shape questions and answers, and reveals her technique for how to get to a new idea.
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Doctor Izzy
Mama Polenta tries to cure Shane’s cold but sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
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Effective Groups and Leaders
Effective Groups and Leaders explores the qualities and characteristics of effective groups and leaders.