Mental Health

Mental Health

• 5 Types of Distorted Thinking
• Brene Brown on Loving with your Whole Heart
• COVID-19 and your mental health
• Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT)
• Dan Harmon on Depression
• Exercise Addiction
• Fight, Flight or Freeze Response
• Impact of Mental Illness in the Justice System
• Is it possible to have depression and anxiety at the same time?
• Justice system and mental health
• Mental Health Funding
• Mental Illness and Self-Harm / Self-Punishment
• Mental Illness and Stigma
• (Mis)Representations of Mental Illness in the Media (Film & TV)
• Nutrition & Mental Health
• On Self-Care
• Overcoming Stigma
• Project Semicolon
• Psychological Projection and Other Defense Mechanisms
• Serious Mental Illness By The Numbers
• Stop Blaming Mental Illness For Mass Shootings
• Understanding Stigma
• What is Dopamine?
• Women in Mental Health Need
• Youth in School Mental Health

History of Psychology and Mental Illness

• Cure for Hysteria of Antiquity
• Francis Galton and the Nature vs. Nurture Debate
• Humorism and the Four Personality Types
• Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
• Today in 1773 America’s first insane asylum opens (October 12th, 1773)

Mental Health Disorders Symptoms

• Mental Illness: Symptoms
• Anxiety Disorders
• The Four Types of Schizophrenia
• Adjustment Disorders: Symptoms
• Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Symptoms
• Agoraphobia: Symptoms
• Anorexia Nervosa: Symptoms
• Antisocial Personality Disorder: Symptoms
• Atypical Depression: Symptoms
• Bipolar Disorder: Symptoms
• Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms
• Cyclothymia: Symptoms
• Depression (Major Depressive Disorder): Symptoms
• Dissociative Disorders: Symptoms
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Symptoms
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Symptoms
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Symptoms
• Postpartum Depression: Symptoms
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Symptoms
  • What is Complex PTSD?
• Seasonal affective disorder (SAD): Symptoms
• Sleep Related Eating Disorder: Symptoms
• Social Anxiety Disorder: Symptoms
• Schizoaffective Disorder (Depressive Type): Symptoms
• Schizoid Personality Disorder: Symptoms

Anxiety

• Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety: Can Diet Make a Difference
• Anxiety or Panic?
• Anxiety vs. Anxiety Disorders
• Managing Your Anxiety

Depression

• Antidepressants and Alcohol
• Antidepressants and Coping with Side Effects
• Antidepressants and Pregnancy
• Antidepressants and Sexual Side Effects
• Antidepressants and Weight Gain?
• Antidepressant Withdrawal: Is It Real?
• Can Antidepressants Quit Working?
• Depression and the Gender Gap
• Does caffeine make depression worse?
• On Depression
• Treatment Resistant Depression
• What antidepressant is right for me?
• What does “clinical depression” mean?

The Psychotic Spectrum Disorders

• The Psychotic Spectrum
• A Few Facts About Schizophrenia
• Depressive Schizoaffective Disorder: Symptoms
• Schizoaffective Disorder and Atypical Depression
• Schizophrenia and Trauma
• The Four Types of Schizophrenia
• What is Schizophrenia?

Psychiatric Hospitals

• E. Fuller Torrey On Deinstitutionalization
• Austen Riggs Center Psychiatric Hospital
• Friends Hospital (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• The Mayo Clinic – Minnesota: Psychiatric & Behavioral Health Hospital
• McLean Psychiatric Hospital: Belmont, Massachusetts
  • Mad Poet’s Society: McLean Hospital, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton
• What to Know Before Admitting Yourself to an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital

Medications

• Atypical vs. Typical Antipsychotics
• Benzodiazepines Addiction and Abuse
• Paliperidone (Oral Route) (Anti-Psychotic)
• Paroxetine (Oral Route) (Antidepressant)
• Quetiapine (Oral Route) (Anti-Psychotic)

Therapies

• Psychotherapy: An Overview
• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Family Therapy
• Mindfulness Movement in Mental Health
• Why People Lie in Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• A Structured Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Session
• Identify Your “Triggers”

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

• Communication Styles and Mental Health
• Crisis Prevention: Experience Intense Sensations
• Distress Tolerance Skills: Reframe
• Mindfulness And Mental Health: Introducing DBT
• Schizoaffective Disorder, DBT, and Mindfulness
• Three Levels of Self-Validation
• Three Styles of Thinking in DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
• Validation in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Watch Your Emotions

Treatments

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Coping Strategies

• Balancing Sleep
• Exercise as a Coping Strategy
• Grounding
• The Karpman Victim – Drama Triangle
• Mammalian Diving Reflex
• Psychological Projection and Other Defense Mechanisms
• Reducing Use of Mood-Altering Substances

Hallucinations & Delusions

• Common Types of Delusions
• DSM-5 Classification of Delusions
• On Schizoaffective Disorder
• Schizoaffective Disorder: What are Hallucinations?
• The Existence of Shadow People
• Types of Delusions

Sexual Assault

• Sexual Assault in the United States
• What is Rape Culture?

Suicide

• Suicide Statistics
• What leads a person to suicide?

My Diagnoses

• The Four Types of Schizophrenia
• Depressive Schizoaffective Disorder: Symptoms
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Symptoms
  • National PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) Awareness Day
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Symptoms

My Hallucinations & Delusions

• A Day In My Life: My Most Common Delusions
• Common Types of Delusions
• Schizophrenia and Breakthrough Symptoms
• The Existence of Shadow People

My Schiz Life Journey (Roughly Chronological Order)

• Will Tonight Be The Night
• Please, Just Let Me Fade Away
• Therapy: Depressive Schizoaffective Disorder
• I’m Privileged

My Medication Side Effects

• Tardive Dyskinesia

My Medical: Organ Donation & Transplant

• Crisis: Diagnosis Alcoholic Cirrhosis
• Organ Donation: Time For An Opt Out System
• Second Chances

Film & TV

• A Beautiful Mind
  • NAMI Calls “A Beautiful Mind” A Historic, Authentic Achievement

Videos

• A New Way To Think of Schizophrenia
• Brene Brown: Listening to Shame (Video)
• Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability (Video)
• Dealing With Trauma Triggers
• Depression and Binge Eating
• Dissociation
• My Mental Illness Recovery – Living With Schizophrenia
• Privilege and Schizophrenia (Video)
• Realistic Schizoaffective Disorder Simulation (Video)
• Schizophrenia Simulator (Video)
• Schizophrenic vs. Person With Schizophrenia (Video)
• What Anti-Psychotic Medicine is Like (Video)
• What is Psychosis? (Video)
• What is Schizophrenia?
• What is Tardive dyskinesia?