health anxiety

Health Anxiety Explained

We all occasionally worry about our wellness. However, if your preoccupation with illness has started taking over your life, you may have health anxiety. The DSM-5-TR doesn’t categorize health anxiety as a mental illness, but its symptoms overlap with other well-defined diagnoses, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. Health Anxiety vs. OCD  Health anxiety...


interpersonal effectiveness

Interpersonal Effectiveness in DBT

Dialectical behavior therapy is a type of psychotherapy that involves various mental health benefits, including improved problem-solving, stimulus control, cognitive restructuring and communications. The word dialectical means combining conflicting viewpoints, and DBT focuses on the concept that a person struggling with mental health issues needs to harness the power...