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Anxiety  disorder is often misunderstood. Nearly 15 million American adults are estimated to have social anxiety.  Social anxiety disorder is more than a fleeting feeling of shyness. It’s a [...]

Hyperventilating and sweating aren’t the only signs of a panic attack. Everyone goes through periods of heightened stress and anxiety. Think back to your busiest college semester when you [...]

Insomnia can increase the risk of heart disease, respiratory disorders, hypertension, chronic pain, and weight gain. Sleep disturbances are core symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD) and [...]

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams testifies on Capitol Hill on Nov. 15, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) When Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory calling for more people to carry [...]

Many have heard the time-worn expression, “relapse is the rule and not the exception.” Relapse is always lurking somewhere. It is only as close as the next drink or that next line of cocaine [...]

Writer and Philosopher George Santayana is attributed with one of the most famous insights about progress, change and retained experience. He stated, “Those who cannot remember the past are [...]

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.” ~ Walt Whitman As a clinician, I have always believed that at the heart of an addiction is a psychological [...]

The mechanisms of addiction have a very strong biologic and physiologic basis, in addition to the psychological and spiritual components. It makes perfect sense then that the right kinds of [...]