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A Recent Interview of Us by David DiSalvo, Part 2

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Part II (see previous blog entry for Part I of this interview, conducted by David DiSalvo) Tell us what "anxiety" really is in a clinical sense, and how it's different than "a case ...

A Recent Interview of Us by David DiSalvo

Friday, June 26th, 2009
We thought you might find a recent interview conducted by David DiSalvo of interest. We have broken it into two parts for easy reading. We'll publish Part II next week. Also, sorry we haven't blogged ...

Handling Emotional Baggage

Sunday, June 14th, 2009
Today we spent the afternoon in Split, Croatia. Our moods were positive and we enjoyed lunch at a quaint local restaurant. The last few days presented a much greater challenge to our moods. In a ...

Lingering Depression

Friday, May 15th, 2009
I read a well written, moving article in the Sunday NYT magazine section about a woman with severe, unremitting depression. Although the ending offered a small bit of hope, the piece induced in me the ...

Obsessing About Compulsions

Sunday, April 19th, 2009
In our most recent blog, Laura described what the obsessional part of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is like. She noted that obsessions are worrisome thoughts, images, or urges that pop into peoples' heads and trigger ...

Avoiding Avoidance

Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Real estate agents are fond of saying that their field can be distilled into three words: location, location, location. When it comes to anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), we turn to three words to ...

The ABC’s of OCD Treatment for Kids

Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Parents of children with OCD or symptoms of OCD want to help their kids get the best and most effective treatments. There are many options with many different names. For example in the treatment of ...

Anxious About the Economy?

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Reuters recently reported on a survey of over 1,000 adults who are currently employed. About one in five of them reported that the economy has impacted their mental health negatively. And a third or more ...
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