How to Flood Your Life With Confidence
When you're feeling anxious and depressed, your self-confidence takes a nosedive. You don't feel up to facing any challenges or pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. You tell yourself that once you start feeling better and more confident, then you’ll be ready to conquer your fears. More...

Can you Improve Life Satisfaction by Changing Your Focus?
Emotions, such as anxiety, have evolved to help us focus our attention on the most important information in the environment around us. However, when this attention to threat is exaggerated, your anxiety levels and symptoms of anxiety increase and are present even when you are not in danger. More...

How do you know your level of suicide risk?
Mental health professionals tend to think about suicidal feelings and thoughts on a continuum or spectrum, with high risk and imminent danger on one end, and low risk and little imminent danger on the other. More...

Suicide: What will happen to you when you ask for help?
Whether you end up at the ER or the office of a mental health professional, you can expect to be interviewed in order to establish the acuteness and lethality of your present suicide risk. More...

Denial Not So Easily Dismissed In Early Addiction Recovery
"I am not alcoholic!" "I do not have a drinking problem!" "I can quit any time I want". "I am not a drug addict. The doctor prescribed this medication!" These are not the only forms of denial that alcoholics and addicts have. Despite the alcoholic/addict's attempts to regain control, family members and others feel compelled to intervene. More...

Staying Sober: Dealing With Temptations
Many patients over the years have asked me the same question: "I know I shouldn't drink but how can I avoid it when I'm out in social situations?" More...