Leading Under Pressure | Psychology Today
“You’re the surgeon. What should we do?” The energy in the operating room was tense. As an eye surgeon, I was preparing to perform cataract surgery on a frail, elderly gentleman who was becoming increasingly anxious under mild sedation. He was moving, unable to lie still. The nurse looked at me, concerned. “Can we even […]
Quieting the Food Noise | Psychology Today
“Food noise” is not an official clinical diagnosis, but it’s a term with which many people identify. It refers to mental chatter about food—persistent thoughts that can feel compulsive, distracting, or even distressing. This isn’t the natural feeling of hunger that tells you it’s time for a meal. Instead, it’s the voice in your head […]
The Female Neurodivergent Experience | Psychology Today
Neurodivergence in women is often misunderstood, underdiagnosed, or misinterpreted due to the ways it manifests differently than in men across the lifespan. Much of the existing research and support systems treat neurodivergence as a static way of being, a fixed set of deficits and strengths. However, a more accurate and helpful perspective is to view […]
Poverty and Mental Health | Psychology Today
By R. Susan Daily, M.D., Eunice Y. Yuen M.D., Ph.D., and the Child Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Lily is a Caucasian 17-year-old girl coming to a family medicine clinic with fatigue and shortness of breath when walking. She has been depressed for more thanr two years, suffers anxiety, and has […]
Building a Rejection Resume | Psychology Today
A few months ago, I ran a workshop at a youth Mental health conference with a good friend of mine who specializes in talking about embracing failure. She openly shared many of her own failures with the audience and offered advice on supporting teenagers experiencing failure or rejection. During the Q&A afterward, one audience member […]
Brittle: The Goldilocks Dilemma | Psychology Today
My intention in writing this blog is to share the experiences I went through with my son, starting with the first manifestation of his illness and our journey through numerous subsequent episodes. I also want to provide commentary as a parent and psychiatrist on issues that these experiences bring up, such as how the diagnostic […]
Integrating Psychedelic Experiences Together | Psychology Today
Psychedelic drugs are gaining a lot of attention as powerful opportunities for Mental health treatment and personal growth. Psychedelic experiences can be especially powerful for making relational changes, because psychedelics like ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin help us think more flexibly, understand different perspectives, get out of old habits, and be more connected to others. One […]
Doubting Your Self-Doubt | Psychology Today
“Self-doubt kills talent.”- Edie McClurg Self-doubt is a feeling of uncertainty or lack of confidence in yourself or your abilities. Long term self-doubt will lead to anxiety, avoidance, procrastination, depression, low-self-esteem and potentially an extreme difficulty in making decisions. How could we begin to doubt our self-doubt, which appears to be on the rise in […]
The Psychology of Scary Movies and Haunted Houses
Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses—and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and masked men nipped at our ankles with (chainless) chain saws as we waited in line, anticipating deeper frights to come once we were […]
The Empathy Singularity | Psychology Today
Source: Art: DALL-E/OpenAI As the possibility or perhaps inevitability of artificial general intelligence (AGI) draws closer, it’s natural to wonder how human cognition can compete in a world where machines may soon match, or surpass, human intellectual abilities. AGI’s potential to perform any cognitive task that a human can begs the question: How do we, […]