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How Does Mindfulness Differ from Cognitive Behavior Therapy?

By Stuart J. Eisendrath MD — 2020

In traditional cognitive behavior therapy, you are taught to try to answer back to negative thoughts. This can be challenging because if you have been depressed for a long time you tend to believe the negative thoughts. With mindfulness, you learn a different approach. By learning how to focus your attention you can let go of negative thoughts.

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Coping with Depression and Disability

Often, disabled people have their disability treated, but they don’t have their emotional or spiritual needs addressed.

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Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?

The mind-altering drug has been shown to help people suffering from anxiety and depression. But how it helps, who it will serve, and who will profit are open questions.

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The Beauty in Mental Illness

Look more closely and you’ll see.

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Male Depression and Anxiety in Athletes

Michael Phelps, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history with 28 medals, has acknowledged that after the 2012 games, his longtime depression was so overwhelming he thought about killing himself.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Prevent Emotional Drain

When it comes to supporting employees to thrive despite the emotional fallout of the pandemic, leaders (and mindfulness) have a critical role to play.

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Experimental Treatments Changed the Course of the AIDS Epidemic; We Need the Same Approach to Mental Illness Today | Commentary

Demand from patients seeking help for their mental illnesses has led to underground use in a way that parallels black markets in the AIDS pandemic. This underground use has been most perilous for people of color, who face greater stigma and legal risks due to the War on Drugs.

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Parting the Clouds

Raison believes depression isn’t a single thing but a cloud of related mental and physical states unique to each person; there is no one symptom that every depressed person experiences.

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Ketamine Is Revealing a New Understanding of Depression and the Brain

Some experts view ketamine as a tool to unravel the biological causes of depression and, perhaps someday, cure it.

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Can Ketamine Treat Depression? the Answer May Lie in a Mysterious Brain Cell

To treat depression, the neurons which control the hormones serotonin and dopamine in our brains seem to get all the attention.

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6 Ways to Start Your Day When You’re Living with Depression

Most of us will resist getting out of bed, even if it’s just a second of internal grumbling. But if you experience depression, getting your day started may not be so much of an annoyance as it is a seemingly impossible feat.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)