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Breaking Down Mental Health Terms: What is High-Functioning Anxiety?

My Brains Not Broken

Up until a few years ago, I hadn’t heard of the term high-functioning anxiety. To me, anxiety was something that got in the way of functioning. Today on the blog, I want to break down high-functioning anxiety, what it looks like and how we can manage it. What is High-Functioning Anxiety?

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Autism, Anxiety, and Depression: What You Need to Know About Comorbidity

Relias

Prevalent comorbidities among those with autism ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism often co-occur. Anxiety Anxiety may be the most common comorbidity for those with autism. Research indicates that up to 84% of autistic individuals also live with anxiety.

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DSM-5-TR Diagnostic Criteria for Gambling Disorder

Gateway Foundation

Gambling disorder is a condition that affects millions of people around the world. The disorder can damage lives, tear families apart and lead to significant financial losses. The manual provides a standardized set of diagnostic criteria for various mental disorders , including problematic gambling.

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Guest Post: Never Lose Hope, Even When Times Feel Hopeless: Seasons Change by Shannon Mick

Bipolar Bandit

The feeling of hopelessness is similar to the dark and never ending feeling that winter can bring on, if you, like myself, experience that (Seasonal Affective Disorder). Hopelessness is an extremely difficult feeling to deal with. It’s okay to feel (be with) our emotions, but we don’t want to become trapped by not doing anything.

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CBT for Kids: How You Can Improve the Mental Health of Younger Clients

Relias

As some therapists are reluctant to use CBT because it can be seen as manualized (following predetermined guidelines) and boring, we’ll guide you through what you need to know to get buy-in from your staff, including: what CBT is, why it’s so important when working with younger clients, and how to begin using at your organization.

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why we panic

Clinical Philosophy

A classic CBT formulation of that panic which is met with in panic disorder - a formulation owed to David Clark - looks like this: The idea, I believe, is that we're to read the arrows as meaning 'and then this leads to.' Or 'I'll offer an alternative interpretation of the symptoms and we'll see if that reduces the anxiety'.

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From Living with OCD to Working with it

Beautiful Voyager

The author Natalia Aniela Aíza My journey as an OCD therapist (and what I have yet to learn). The skin would bubble and puss, and I would focus all my anxiety on that searing pain. If I put my therapist hat on, I am able to identify my current OCD as “ego-syntonic.” Compulsions are some of my earliest childhood memories.

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