It was the most peaceful, joyous, incredible,
life changing experience I've ever had in my life. There were scary parts, foreboding
parts … I always knew there was beautiful and joy and peace on the other side of it.
It was freeing, it was really freeing. This is Alana. She’s describing what she
felt after she took a dose of this stuff — psilocybin. It’s a naturally occurring psychedelic compound,
the kind you find in magic mushrooms. But she wasn’t tripping in a dorm room or
at Woodstock — it actually wasn’t recreational at all.
If anything became unreal or I was feeling nervous or not in touch with reality, I would
squeeze his hand and he would squeeze mine back just to reassure me that I was okay and
everything was alright. It was part of a controlled medical test to
see if psychedelics could be useful in helping people quit cigarettes. Alana had been smoking
for 37 years before her session with psilocybin, and she hasn’t had a cigarette since. Research on psychedelics for medical use is
preliminary. Most studies suffer from really small sample sizes.
That’s partly because the
federal government lists LSD and psilocybin as Schedule 1 drugs. So researchers face extra
red tape, and funding is really hard to come by. Vox writer German Lopez reviewed dozens of
studies that have been done. He found that psychedelics show promise for treating addiction,
OCD, anxiety, and in some cases, depression. One small study of 15 smokers found that 80
percent were able to abstain from smoking for six months after a psilocybin treatment.
In a pilot study of 12 advanced cancer patients suffering from end-of-life anxiety, participants
who took psilocybin generally showed lower scores on a test of depression.
And smaller study suggested psilocybin treatment could also help people with alcohol dependence
cut back on their drinking days.
We don’t have all the answers as to what
exactly these treatments are doing in the brain. But they seem to work by providing
a meaningful, even mystical experience that leads to lasting changes in a patient's life. The issues that I talked about, or thought about, or went into during my experience were transformative in the sense that I got to look at them through a different lens. I know this sounds weird, I feel like I have more connections in my brain that I couldn't
access before That feeling that Alana is describing is actually
pretty spot-on. When you take LSD your brain looks something
like this. You can actually see a higher degree of connectivity
between various parts of the brain, it’s not limited to the visual cortex.
This communication inside the brain helps explain visual hallucinations — and the researchers argue that it could
also explain why psychedelics can help people overcome serious mental issues.
They wrote that you can think of psychiatric disorders as the brain being “entrenched
in pathology.” Harmful patterns become automated and hard to change, and that’s what can make
things like anxiety, addiction and depression very hard to treat. That’s Albert Garcia-Romeu, he’s a Johns Hopkins researcher who worked on studies of
of psilocybin and smoking addiction, like the one that Alana's involved with. He says that when participants take psychedelics, One of the big remaining questions here is
how long these benefits actually last after just the one-time treatment.
A review of research on LSD-assisted psychotherapy and alcoholism found no statistically significant
benefits after 12 months. And a recent study on psilocybin and depression
found that benefits significantly dropped off after three months. And of course are some big risks to using
psychedelic drugs. It’s hard to predict a patient’s reaction
and some might actually endanger themselves.
Those predisposed to psychotic conditions
are especially at risk for having a traumatic experience while on the drug.
It’s difficult to draw solid conclusions from the existing studies.
But there’s more than enough promise here to merit further research and further funding
for that research. As Matthew Johnson of Johns Hopkins said,
"These are among the most debilitating and costly disorders known to humankind.” For
some people, no existing treatments help. But psychedelics might. One thing you might still be wondering is why so much of this research is so new, when we've known when we've known about psychedelics for thousands of years. Well since these drugs are so old, they can't be patented, which means that pharmaceutical companies don't really have any incentive to fund any research into them.
So that really leaves it up to governments and private contributors to fund all these studies. And there actually was a lot of research done into these drugs in the 50s and 60s, but there was a big enough backlash to the abuse of psychedelics in that period, especially around events like Woodstock, that funding really dried up, and research stopped. And that's why it's only now that we see this research happening, with private, not government contributions..
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How to overcome a panic disorder: #1 TIP TO STOP PANIC FOREVER
Hey, welcome to this video. My name is Tom, from the Alive Academy.com. And in this video we will make visible what
the real root or cause of an panic disorder also known as APA. Only when we know the real cause, we can heal
the root and there for automatically liberate ourselves from every other anxiety-disorder-symptom
too, such as a fast heart, trembling, shaking, confusion, dizziness, nausea and or difficult
breathing. Only if we know what the real root of the
problem is, we will know how we can stop our panic disorder completely and for once and
for all. A panic disorder is a mental disorder characterized
by feeling anxiety and fear. To end the root of the problem together with
all it symptoms for once and for all, and there for to shine the light onto our ‘dark’
panic disorder or fears, I came up with a drawing to show you. I don't want to give you a superficial solution,
so I want to take you back to the origin. To the moment we were born. Let's represent this heart as a symbol of
our free pure and fulfilled feeling at our birth.
Then from that moment until now, we have all encountered painful emotions and none of us have learned how to solve this pain. This pain sets around our pure and fulfilled feelings. Of course no one of us really want to feel this pain, that is why we all found a different way of dealing with this. You know how? By building a wall of control around it.
And how do we build that wall? We all know this I guess. From that moment we stop living from our feeling and start living from our mind or our thinking. Let me symbolize this brain for our thinking. From that moment we use our thinking nonstop to search for distractions outside ourselves, that will have to prevent us from feeling pain. And these distractions or our non stop thinking, yes of course I should be doing this, or I should be doing that, or otherwise it wouldn't feel right, this, this and that. This annoying little voice inside our head, I am sure we all know off, serves us as a band aid, on top of our wall of control. To prevent ourselves from feeling. The problem is that we do not just cover up just our pain, but also our pure feelings. And within our distractions we are still looking for a feeling. For example in creating success, we are actually looking for a feeling of fulfillment.
Or by starting a relationship, because we'd rather not be alone, because then we are not distracted anymore and then we feel pain. So we are searching for a feeling to fulfill ourselves with a relationship. And even in simple things a new Smartphone, a new car, new house, we search for this long lasting feeling of being complete and fulfilled by running away from our feelings. The contradiction shows itself very clearly, yet we do not question ourselves about these choices and the routine that is has become for so many of us.
We rather invest all of our money in time to build a life filled with these distractions that never work permanently. That create something like a reality replacement for the feeling that we actually are missing. A replaced identity of ourselves. And we start to believe to have become this illusion. The problem is that when we are running away from our feelings and at the same time are looking for in these distractions for a feeling of fulfillment that never comes, then we will have to continuously search for new distractions. New, new etc. Until we can't keep up anymore. This pattern is extremely exhausting, we all are aware of this, let me symbolize sweat drops for this. This is an imprisoning pattern. Let me symbolize a lock for this. Now what is fear? Fear is just the resistance that we would fail in getting our next distraction or that one of our created distractions will disappear or will be taken away from us. Because then our band aid will no longer work and then obviously we will start to feel the pain again that we haven't resolved yet.
I hope by showing you this drawing that fear has a very valuable function. That fear is not only pretty annoying, but it is also a wake – up call. That this replacement reality doesn’t work. So as long as we still experience fear, tells us that we are still having unsolved pain and are settling for a replacement reality instead of independently feeling fulfilled and alive in freedom. There actually is a reality possible in which we can choose to live the way we really are, feeling independently fulfilled. Without fear and unsolved pain. If we learn to solve all of our unsolved pain and fear, our restlessness thinking to escape in distractions isn't necessary anymore either and only then we can start to create in freedom.
Only then we can start a relation in freedom or success or whatever we feel like creating. And only then we don't have any fears that it will disappear again. And only then we can truly enjoy to the fullest and we don't have any fears anymore, that things people or achievements may be taken away from us. Because we feel complete and fulfilled independently without experiencing fear and having pain anymore. Do you know the difference between creating something as a distraction or as an addiction or as a compensation, because this is the mask we all are wearing, the mask of pretending.
The difference between this and doing something out of free will, an easy way to check is to stop doing what you are doing, and you are still feeling completely fulfilled then you are acting out of free will. On the other hand, when you stop doing what you are trying to do or achieve and you will start feeling restless, because that is how pain feels. Pain doesn’t feel like; ahhh I'm in pain, pain feels like feeling restless, irritated, angry, bored. Then you know you are doing it to create a compensation reality or as a distraction from unsolved feelings. And the good news is that there actually is a way to solve the root of all pain, which will make all fear to feel pain vanish as well. Which will let you create without limitations, and importantly you don't need to go through this pain again to get rid of it. We know now that all of our fears and other symptoms are helping alarm signals and serve us with a very valuable message. Our fear and symptoms are here to tell us that the direction that we are going, is a wrong and unhealthy direction.
It warns us that if we continue to ignore this wrong, unhealthy direction, of dis-ease, that our body might come up with bigger actual diseases. Our fear and our symptoms are here to tell us that liberation and cure is to be found in the opposite direction: in solving our unsolved pain, so no more fears or symptoms can arise. Do you believe by numbing these alarm signals, f.e. by taking medication, will help us to solve the real problem? Or does it give us another short shot of distraction, like we’ve seen in the drawing? The more I was trying to create a successful mask, or the more I was trying to run away from my insecurity or fears, the more my exhausting and limiting fears kept arising in other forms and didn’t go away. I only started to feel truly liberated, relaxed, filled with joy, filled with self esteem and enjoying everything around me, when I decided to get to the root of my fear and pain and solved them. When we are no longer imprisoned in this exhausting system by fears, pain and relating symptoms, we will feel independently filled with joy.
When we feel only joy without fear, there won’t be any obstructions left, to create whatever belongs to us naturally. When we create out of joy, without any obstructions, success and abundance are just a logical consequence. Basically liberating ourselves from this limiting imprisonment by fear and pain, is the key to go from limitations and scarcity, to true natural abundance. Or does liberation come from working even harder against our will in the wrong direction out of fear? Everyone can make this happen for themselves. Regardless our situation. We don’t need to cultivate it, we don’t have to be rich or try really really hard, we don’t need to change our relationship, or the place where we are living or the way we look.
Of course we are free to do any of this, but it is not required at all. Just understanding ‘how’ we can get past the root of all of our pain, fear and symptoms, without having to feel them again of course, is enough. This video is limited in time, but do you want to know how to immediately get past the symptom of fear, whenever it occurs, or do you want to know the truth about ‘fear’ and ‘pain’ that will set you free? Click on the link above or at the end of this video, depending on where you look at it, and this will take you to my blog and from there I will be able to send you 4 videos, free of charge.
If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you want to help me liberate even more people from fear, stress and pain, by making the real cause and the unhealthy wrong direction visible, please share this video with your friends. Click on the link & I will see you in the next video..
Then from that moment until now, we have all encountered painful emotions and none of us have learned how to solve this pain. This pain sets around our pure and fulfilled feelings. Of course no one of us really want to feel this pain, that is why we all found a different way of dealing with this. You know how? By building a wall of control around it.
And how do we build that wall? We all know this I guess. From that moment we stop living from our feeling and start living from our mind or our thinking. Let me symbolize this brain for our thinking. From that moment we use our thinking nonstop to search for distractions outside ourselves, that will have to prevent us from feeling pain. And these distractions or our non stop thinking, yes of course I should be doing this, or I should be doing that, or otherwise it wouldn't feel right, this, this and that. This annoying little voice inside our head, I am sure we all know off, serves us as a band aid, on top of our wall of control. To prevent ourselves from feeling. The problem is that we do not just cover up just our pain, but also our pure feelings. And within our distractions we are still looking for a feeling. For example in creating success, we are actually looking for a feeling of fulfillment.
Or by starting a relationship, because we'd rather not be alone, because then we are not distracted anymore and then we feel pain. So we are searching for a feeling to fulfill ourselves with a relationship. And even in simple things a new Smartphone, a new car, new house, we search for this long lasting feeling of being complete and fulfilled by running away from our feelings. The contradiction shows itself very clearly, yet we do not question ourselves about these choices and the routine that is has become for so many of us.
We rather invest all of our money in time to build a life filled with these distractions that never work permanently. That create something like a reality replacement for the feeling that we actually are missing. A replaced identity of ourselves. And we start to believe to have become this illusion. The problem is that when we are running away from our feelings and at the same time are looking for in these distractions for a feeling of fulfillment that never comes, then we will have to continuously search for new distractions. New, new etc. Until we can't keep up anymore. This pattern is extremely exhausting, we all are aware of this, let me symbolize sweat drops for this. This is an imprisoning pattern. Let me symbolize a lock for this. Now what is fear? Fear is just the resistance that we would fail in getting our next distraction or that one of our created distractions will disappear or will be taken away from us. Because then our band aid will no longer work and then obviously we will start to feel the pain again that we haven't resolved yet.
I hope by showing you this drawing that fear has a very valuable function. That fear is not only pretty annoying, but it is also a wake – up call. That this replacement reality doesn’t work. So as long as we still experience fear, tells us that we are still having unsolved pain and are settling for a replacement reality instead of independently feeling fulfilled and alive in freedom. There actually is a reality possible in which we can choose to live the way we really are, feeling independently fulfilled. Without fear and unsolved pain. If we learn to solve all of our unsolved pain and fear, our restlessness thinking to escape in distractions isn't necessary anymore either and only then we can start to create in freedom.
Only then we can start a relation in freedom or success or whatever we feel like creating. And only then we don't have any fears that it will disappear again. And only then we can truly enjoy to the fullest and we don't have any fears anymore, that things people or achievements may be taken away from us. Because we feel complete and fulfilled independently without experiencing fear and having pain anymore. Do you know the difference between creating something as a distraction or as an addiction or as a compensation, because this is the mask we all are wearing, the mask of pretending.
The difference between this and doing something out of free will, an easy way to check is to stop doing what you are doing, and you are still feeling completely fulfilled then you are acting out of free will. On the other hand, when you stop doing what you are trying to do or achieve and you will start feeling restless, because that is how pain feels. Pain doesn’t feel like; ahhh I'm in pain, pain feels like feeling restless, irritated, angry, bored. Then you know you are doing it to create a compensation reality or as a distraction from unsolved feelings. And the good news is that there actually is a way to solve the root of all pain, which will make all fear to feel pain vanish as well. Which will let you create without limitations, and importantly you don't need to go through this pain again to get rid of it. We know now that all of our fears and other symptoms are helping alarm signals and serve us with a very valuable message. Our fear and symptoms are here to tell us that the direction that we are going, is a wrong and unhealthy direction.
It warns us that if we continue to ignore this wrong, unhealthy direction, of dis-ease, that our body might come up with bigger actual diseases. Our fear and our symptoms are here to tell us that liberation and cure is to be found in the opposite direction: in solving our unsolved pain, so no more fears or symptoms can arise. Do you believe by numbing these alarm signals, f.e. by taking medication, will help us to solve the real problem? Or does it give us another short shot of distraction, like we’ve seen in the drawing? The more I was trying to create a successful mask, or the more I was trying to run away from my insecurity or fears, the more my exhausting and limiting fears kept arising in other forms and didn’t go away. I only started to feel truly liberated, relaxed, filled with joy, filled with self esteem and enjoying everything around me, when I decided to get to the root of my fear and pain and solved them. When we are no longer imprisoned in this exhausting system by fears, pain and relating symptoms, we will feel independently filled with joy.
When we feel only joy without fear, there won’t be any obstructions left, to create whatever belongs to us naturally. When we create out of joy, without any obstructions, success and abundance are just a logical consequence. Basically liberating ourselves from this limiting imprisonment by fear and pain, is the key to go from limitations and scarcity, to true natural abundance. Or does liberation come from working even harder against our will in the wrong direction out of fear? Everyone can make this happen for themselves. Regardless our situation. We don’t need to cultivate it, we don’t have to be rich or try really really hard, we don’t need to change our relationship, or the place where we are living or the way we look.
Of course we are free to do any of this, but it is not required at all. Just understanding ‘how’ we can get past the root of all of our pain, fear and symptoms, without having to feel them again of course, is enough. This video is limited in time, but do you want to know how to immediately get past the symptom of fear, whenever it occurs, or do you want to know the truth about ‘fear’ and ‘pain’ that will set you free? Click on the link above or at the end of this video, depending on where you look at it, and this will take you to my blog and from there I will be able to send you 4 videos, free of charge.
If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you want to help me liberate even more people from fear, stress and pain, by making the real cause and the unhealthy wrong direction visible, please share this video with your friends. Click on the link & I will see you in the next video..
Nerbyos, Anxiety at Panic Attack – Payo ni Doc Willie Ong #780
Nerbyos, Anxiety at Panic Attack
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Depression, Anxiety and WHAT IS NORMAL | Kati Morton
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Anxiety Disorders in Children and Teens
Anxiety BC – http://anxietybc.com/When anxiety causes distress or interference that is much greater than anxiety experienced by other children of the same age, it may be called an anxiety disorder. In this case, the term “disorder” simply indicates that the anxiety problem is significant enough and has lasted long enough (usually at least a number of weeks or months) to be considered a problem that warrants intervention. Commonly, children and teens experience anxiety problems that are characteristic of more than one anxiety disorder. Fortunately, the helpful approaches are similar for various anxiety problems.If your child has been diagnosed as having a mild to moderate anxiety disorder, it will most likely fit into this list of seven anxiety disorders and subtypes:Separation Anxiety Disorder
Specific Phobias
Social Anxiety Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Panic Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress DisorderClick below to read more…
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Child Separation Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety BC – http://anxietybc.com/It is normal for children to sometimes feel anxious or insecure when separated from their parents or other important caregivers. Usually, such separation anxiety fades as they grow up and become more confident. If your child’s separation anxiety continues to persist after the age of five and starts affecting his or her life (e.g. refuses to be out of sight of parent), then your child may have Separation Anxiety Disorder, which involves excessive anxiety when a child is, or is expecting, to be separated from home or a loved one (such as a parent or a caregiver). Click below to read more…Anxiety BC – https://www.anxietybc.com/parenting/separation-anxiety-disorder
Neuroscience of Anxiety
Alie knows all about how stressful grad school can be. But what happens when stress is more than just stress? This week, we’re talking about the neuroscience of anxiety. And for Alie, it’s personal.Sources:
https://www.adaa.org/understanding-anxiety/generalized-anxiety-disorder-gad
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/any-anxiety-disorder-among-adults.shtml
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~rswenson/NeuroSci/figures/Figure_31.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684250/
http://www.caam.rice.edu/~cox/wrap/norepinephrine.pdf
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2013 Voice Awards Program
On September 25, SAMHSA hosted the 2013 Voice Awards program, which honored community leaders in recovery from mental and/or substance use disorders, as well as television and film professionals, for their collective efforts to educate the public about the real experiences of people with behavioral health problems. This year’s Voice Awards hosts were actors Mehcad Brooks (USA Network’s “Necessary Roughness”) and Max Burkholder (NBC’s “Parenthood”). Academy Award nominee David O. Russell, former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, retired U.S. Army General Peter Chiarelli, as well as community leaders and TV, film, and documentary screenwriters and producers were honored for helping educate the American people that people recover from mental health and/or substance use disorders. Learn more about SAMHSA’s Voice Awards by visiting www.samhsa.gov/voiceawards.
Do YOU Have GENERALIZED ANXIETY? | Kati Morton
Generalized Anxiety Disorder is when we have excessive worry or anxiety that last for at least 6 months. This anxiety and worry can lead us to feeling restless or on edge, easily fatigued, have difficulty concentrating, irritable, tense muscles, and struggle to get a good night sleep.This anxiety and worry can lead us to feeling restless or on edge, easily fatigued, have difficulty concentrating, irritable, tense muscles, and struggle to get a good night sleep.This anxiety and worry can lead us to feeling restless or on edge, easily fatigued, have difficulty concentrating, irritable, tense muscles, and struggle to get a good night sleep.In adults, this disorder tends to be focused around worry associated with health, finances, and everyday routine life circumstances. In children, this tends to present more as worry about competence (tests and assessments) and the quality of their performance (sports games, musical performances, etc). Although the median age of onset is 30 years old, those who they spoke to stated that they had felt anxious their entire lives.The good news is that there are many treatment options!First is talk therapy and more specifically CBT. This helps us challenge those automatic/faulty thoughts so that we can slowly get back to doing the things we used to do without worry or anxiety. This can take time and lots of therapy homework, but they find CBT to be the best therapy approach.Secondly, medication. I know not everyone is open to trying medication, but they find that CBT with medication gives us the best chance of recovery. Usually, SSRI’s or SNRI’s (otherwise known as anti-depressants) are used first. If those don’t help at certain intense moments, they may prescribe a benzodiazepine to be used only in acute situations due to its habit forming tendencies. So please be careful if you are prescribed these and do not use them every day.Lastly, there are some lifestyle changes you can make. Eating regularly and from a well-balanced diet can help. Also, cutting back on coffee and alcohol can help us sleep more soundly and get rid of any symptoms that may feel like anxiety. Getting exercise and taking time to meditate can help us better manage any of the anxiety symptoms we struggle with.I hope you found this helpful! GAD is very common and something many people struggle with daily. The sooner we get help for this the better, so please share! You never know who it could encourage.I’m Kati Morton, a licensed therapist making Mental Health videos!JOURNALING CLUB!
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses, affecting 19 million children and adults in the U.S. reports the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA).ADAA also reports that the ailment consumes almost a third of the total $148 billion total mental health bill for the nation. That’s not surprising, given people with an anxiety disorder are three to five times more likely to go to the doctor, and six times more likely than non-sufferers to be hospitalized for psychiatric ailments. Although anxiety disorder describes a group of illnesses such as generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and phobias, there are some symptoms that characterize the illness as a whole. According to the American Psychiatric Association, when people suffering from anxiety disorders talk about their condition, they often include these descriptions: Unrealistic or excessive worry
Exaggerated startled reactions
Sleep disturbances
Jitteriness
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Dry mouth
Lump in throat
Trembling
Sweating
Racing or pounding heart in the workplace,
these symptoms could translate into difficulty working with colleagues and clients, trouble concentrating, preoccupation over the fear instead of focusing on work, and turning down assignments because of fear of failure, flying, going into the elevator, or public speaking. For people who think they might have an anxiety disorder, Jeffrey P. Kahn, MD, a clinical psychiatrist and author of Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace, recommends the following first steps of action: Talk about the problem with someone you feel comfortable with. Also, ask that person what he or she notices about you.
Take a break from your worry by playing sports, listening to music, praying, or meditating.
Join a self-help group.
If talking about the problem or relaxation techniques don’t work, seek professional consultation. Anxiety disorder is an umbrella term that covers several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension, and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health. There are numerous psychiatric and medical syndromes that may mimic the symptoms of an anxiety disorder such as hyperthyroidism which may be misdiagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder. Individuals diagnosed with an anxiety disorder may be classified in one of two categories; based on whether they experience continuous or episodic symptoms. Current psychiatric diagnostic criteria recognize a wide variety of anxiety disorders. Recent surveys have found that as many as 18% of Americans and 14% of Europeans may be affected by one or more of them. The term anxiety covers four aspects of experiences an individual may have: mental apprehension, physical tension, physical symptoms, and dissociative anxiety. Anxiety disorder is divided into generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, and panic disorder; each has its own characteristics and symptoms and they require different treatment (Gelder et al. 2005). The emotions present in anxiety disorders range from simple nervousness to bouts of terror (Barker 2003). Standardized screening clinical questionnaires such as the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale or the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale can be used to detect anxiety symptoms, and suggest the need for a formal diagnostic assessment of anxiety disorder.I’m Kati Morton, a licensed therapist making Mental Health videos!JOURNALING CLUB!
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