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Psychotherapy vs. Medication for OCD – Which is More Effective?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a serious and disabling problem for many people.
New Law in Oregon: Your Rights to Bereavement Leave
People who experience the loss of a loved one are often tasked with managing life insurance and legal issues, resolving financial paperwork, planning a funeral, and sorting through their loved one’s belongings.
Why See A Health Psychologist?
When a person has significant issues with their health it can bring many challenges, more than just how it affects their body.
Good Grief: Before asking how to get over your grief, ask whether you should.
Sometimes people aren’t very understanding of the pain of grief.
Do Opioids Work For Chronic Pain?
The NPR program Fresh Air broadcast an interview earlier this week with New York Times reporter and author Barry Meier discussing his e-book A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine’s Biggest Mistake.
What’s love got to do with it? Arguments for the use of “love drugs” miss the point
That spark gone between you and your partner?
Ketamine for OCD, Too?
I’ve written in the past about the use of a pharmaceutical version of the drug ketamine (known as the party drug, “Special K”) in studies with depression and with bipolar disorder.
What’s good for your garden may also be good for your relationship
The other day when I was out for my morning walk I saw the season’s first crocuses peaking their bright yellow heads out from the still muddy, cold ground.
The Ecstasy and the Agony: Using MDMA to treat PTSD
My aunt alerted me to a recent New York Times article on the use of MDMA (known as the street drug Ecstasy) to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Chinese Finger Traps: What a Novelty Item Can Teach Us about Acceptance
Let’s start with the obvious. In most cases, human beings want to minimize pain and discomfort.
Coping with the Winter Blues
I was recently interviewed for an article on coping with the “Winter Blues” in the Daily Muse, an online magazine.
How to avoid jet lag while travelling
For many years, it has been known that the effective use of light therapy and sunglasses can help you avoid jet lat and adjust more rapidly to a new time zone.
Gender, sexuality, and other things that don’t belong in boxes
We all do it. Some of us do it more than others.
Gratitude – It does a relationship good!
“She never appreciates all the things I do”. “He just seems to take me for granted”. Sound familiar?
“You’re trying to ‘squish out’ my kid”: Is it time to revise our gender boxes?
Oh how we humans love our boxes! Black/white, good/bad, Democrat/Republican, female/male.
Why antipsychotics should not be prescribed for anxiety
The Oregonian published an Op-Ed piece that my colleague Christeine Terry and I wrote.
ACT and body image difficulties: Maybe not liking your body isn’t the problem
If you grow up in American society, a society in which we are constantly bombarded with messages about one very homogenous, very unattainable image of beauty, you are likely to feel badly about your body.