The Psychology of Depression and Anxiety - Dr. Scott Eilers

Your relationship with yourself shapes your entire life - but what if that relationship is toxic? Self-hatred isn't inevitable; it's a habit you can break. My approach challenges conventional self-help wisdom. Instead of forcing positivity, I'll show you 4 alternative approaches that will create actual change. ⁠Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delive...

Every day decisions feel like life or death when you have chronic anxiety. Some of us are hardwired to care way too much about every little thing, so that doing "normal" things can leave us on the verge of panic. Many of the coping mechanism you're using to reduce your anxiety are likely making it worse. I'm going to show you what to do instead. Check out Magic Mind Use code DRSC...

Depression isn't always lying to you. Your feelings of worthlessness might reflect an unmet need for purpose and impact. I've battled severe depression for a decade. Through this struggle, I discovered that constantly consuming without creating deepens the despair. This imbalance can make anyone feel invisible and irrelevant. I have a theory on how to break free from this cycle. Comprehens...

There is a very simple reason why the changes you try to make - habits, routines, thought patterns - rarely work. The process involved in actual change has been severely over simplified. This results in failure by putting yourself in unwinnable situations. Change is a multi-step process that requires different interventions along the way. Comprehensive in-home depression relief that gets to the co...

No one has tried everything they could try to improve their mental health. No one. There are millions of possibilities and combinations available. However, sometimes it's better to stop acquiring new information and focus, instead, on applying the information we already have. Today I'm presenting 7 things you probably know you should be doing but my be struggling to implement. Get Practica...

Fixing your sleep will have the biggest positive impact on your mental health. When you don't get enough sleep, the brain doesn't work right. Impact includes everything from executive functioning, emotional regulation, and social functioning. To avoid that downward spiral of negative effects from poor sleep, I'm going to give you some strategies for improving this deceptively difficult...

Passive SI is one of the most misunderstood mental health symptoms. I'm going to debunk some common misconceptions about passive suicidal ideation. As a clinical psychologist with professional and personal experience, I'm going to set the record straight. Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delivered weekly⁠ . ⁠Sleep better, without pills (partner I believe...

I've been there, feeling like an outcast and struggling with severe mental health issues like anxiety and deep depression for much of my life. This video offers brutally honest advice to my younger self with insights on resilience, identity, and finding peace. Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delivered weekly⁠ . ⁠Sleep better, without pills (partner I believ...

You have much less control over your thoughts and feelings than most people would lead you to believe. Which is extremely unfortunate when you have mental health struggles. This is why most of the things you try to change your thinking, at best, don't work, and, at worst, have then opposite effect. I'm sharing 6 common mistakes I see therapy patients making when trying to fix their mental...

Most mental-health interventions and strategies are geared toward people with mild-to-moderate symptoms of depression and anxiety - not the intense negative self-talk many experience. Traditional methods often fall short when confronting our harshest inner critics. I've developed a technique to match the intensity of negative thoughts. In this video, I'll teach you how to fight fire with f...

Depression has a way of stealing your energy and motivation. So how can you improve your energy and motivation while recovering from depression or depressive episodes? First, you have to understand that these are two separate things - and they each require different interventions. I'm going to show you how to tell the difference and some ways to improve each. Get Practical tools for navigating...

How can an introvert enjoy alone time without feeling lonely, isolated, or disconnected? In my personal, and professional experience, there are 3 reasons you might struggle with this. I'm going to breakdown each reason for you and give you some tips on how to navigate them. Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delivered weekly⁠ . ⁠My book: For When Everything is...

You're probably not actually self-sabotaging: and I have a few reasons for saying this. "Self-sabotage" is one of the most overused phrases in mental health. It's become a blanket phrase for people who are struggling to seeing meaningful change in their lives. I'm breaking down what self-sabotage actually is, and how you can avoid it - if you happen to be doing it. Get Practi...

Facing emotional pain and grief is incredibly hard. I spent years running from my childhood grief, thinking time would magically fix everything. But avoiding pain only prolongs the suffering and stunts our growth. It's understandable to want to avoid it, ignore it, run from it. The reality is, sometimes facing that pain, trauma, or grief turns out to be as bad as you think it will be. The crit...

Managing 1 or more chronic mental health conditions is a full-time responsibility. If you push this to the bottom of your priorities it will be extremely difficult for it to ever improve significantly. But since you have a life filled with other responsibilities, your time, attention, energy, and resources are probably already spread thin. Here are 5 you can do if you have just 5 minutes. Get Prac...

I'm exploring four unconscious behaviors that hurt people with mental illness. These things aren't going to serve you in managing your mental health. I'll show you how to recognize these patterns in hopes that you can reduce their occurrences - it will lead to significantly better outcomes. Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delivered weekly⁠ . ⁠ ⁠My b...

Thought patterns don't define you, and they're not fixed. The thing about depression is it traps you in narrow, repetitive thinking. Your thinking is actually quite malleable. But reshaping your thoughts, often takes a lot more than just trying to think differently. I'm talking with Dr. Moshe Bar of Hedonia about how they've been able to gamify Facilitating Thought Progression (FTP...

Your life isn't failing; it's just stretched thin. This is not a cliche, empty reassurance, or toxic positivity: you're probably doing better than you give yourself credit for. Think of yourself as a distribution manager with limited resources. You're juggling work, relationships, health, and home - all demanding more than you can give. More than likely, you're using an incorre...

Our world is built on the ability of individuals to function socially (for better or worse). So what happens when your default social functioning differs from the norm? In the case of empathy, differing from the norm - both with "too much" or "too little" empathy - can have a disabling effect. Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delivered weekly...

Waking up early and struggling to go back to sleep creates a lot of stress on your body. Some studies have shown this to decrease cognitive functioning by up to 10% per hour of lost sleep! Sometimes, this is caused by a sleep disorder. I'm going to show you 4 ways to stop waking up too early. If you're struggling to stay asleep, you can use these 4 methods on your own. But I highly recomme...

The traditional clinical symptoms of depression often don't cover the full spectrum of what it feels like to experience depression or depressive episodes on a daily basis. Today I'm diving into 8 specific symptoms of depression you won't find in the official overview - but I think they are illuminating, validating, and helpful. Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression an...

Life doesn't always involve constant growth - it has dormant phases too. We sometimes experience events that halt progress unexpectedly, invisibly. Trauma, resource scarcity can end growing seasons prematurely. Like trees, grass, we aren't fragile for needing dormant periods occasionally. Unseen circumstances dictate when growth stalls, despite others' journeys. Don't judge the pau...

Would you describe your life as a rollercoaster? This probably looks like sustained periods where you're extremely high-functioning and then prolonged periods where you struggle to do even the most basic functions. Most people suffering from depression and anxiety experience this to some degree. If this is you, you're probably like me, a "high ceiling, low floor" person - highly...

Trying to replace negative thoughts with positive ones rarely works for your mental wellbeing. Your brain perceives threat and warns you by replaying those thoughts. Fighting this impulse makes your mind cling tighter. I'm laying out an effective retraining technique. No more fruitless thought struggles - you'll gain control. Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxi...

Life doesn't always make sense, not all pain has a purpose - and this reality can hurt. This frustrated me for years. While not all pain leads to something positive, I want to offer a perspective that can help you avoid falling into deeper levels of despair. I call this technique, 'The Web.' Get Practical tools for navigating life with depression and anxiety, delivered weekly⁠ . ⁠Sleep...