http://psychauthors.com/blogs Blogs Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:16:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en People who have anxiety disorders often wind up with depression. Anxiety wears out the body and puts you at a greater risk for not being able to handle challenges when they occur. So, if you have lots of anxiety, please get help. Start with some solid self-help books, but psychotherapy ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=76 Well, we've made it half way through February. Spring is a little more than a month away. Spring is the first date in the year with equal day and night. For people with SAD, depression should be starting to lift even now as the days become lighter. I remember living ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=75 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a often a disorder that frustrates the sufferer as well as the family. People with OCD frequently ask for reassurance from those who care about them. Unfortunately, reassurance actually can make the obsession or compusion worse. Why? Because telling someone with OCD that everything is going ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=74 Ken Pop, Ph.D. passed along the abstract to this new article. It shows that treatment for OCD works and confirms the statements we made about treatment efficacy in OCD For Dummies. Clinical Psychology Review* (vol 28, #8) Psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis. Authors: Ana Rosa-Alcazar, Julio Sanchez-Meca, Antonia Gomez- Conesa, & ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=73 Just received this as a forward from Ken Pope, Ph.D.--CE Wiley-Blackwell, the publisher of the *Cochrane Library*, issued the following news release: Clinical trials: Unfavourable results often go unpublished Trials showing a positive treatment effect, or those with important or striking findings, were much more likely to be published in scientific journals than ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=72 Recent research looked at a large sample of older people who did not have any memory problems. They gave them a couple of personality tests. The group that tended to get easily stressed and were socially isolated had higher rates of dementia some years later than those who were more ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=71 Okay, like most people I was glued to the TV coverage today. How many people love watching 400 high school bands parade by? I felt sorry for our new president and his family. But, his ability to stand tall and smile under incredible pressure was quite obvious. Hopefully those kids will get their ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=70 Did you ever spend hours in the car as a kid and make up games to pass the time? We used to count white cars or VW bugs. There was some predetermined number to reach for the winner. These games filled up the long hours prior to video equipped cars ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=67 I think OCD is arguably the most interesting of all emotional disorders. But it's also a little complicated. That's why we enjoyed writing OCD For Dummies so much--so we could distill this complexity and help people really understand the problem as well as what to do about it. By the ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=69 When I read about psychology a million years ago, Freud talked about three parts of a person, the EGO, ID, and SuperEgo. I was pretty sure that my superego was well developed. Basically the Id was considered the primitive desires that we all have, the Super Ego was the ways ... http://psychauthors.com/blogs/?p=68