The Psychology of Depression and Anxiety - Dr. Scott Eilers

Depression absolutely destroys your ability (and desire) to get done what you need to get done - but you already know this! Exhaustion, insomnia, anhedonia, worthlessness, brain fog. These are some of your adversaries in this. While they cannot be stopped 100% of the time, this tool will help you dramatically decrease the damage done to your life by depressive episodes. Get Practical tools for nav...

If you have a chronic mental health condition, your life is in a constant state of decay - unless you proactively do something about it. This is 1 of the essential truths about living with mental illness. And while it really sucks to hear - and I acknowledge and validate that feeling. I'm sharing with you some ways to make life good. It won't come automatic for you, but it can come intenti...

Does your brain goes from "everything is fine," to "I'm going to die alone and everything is going to fall apart," in an instant? This is characteristic of catastrophic thinking, and it doesn't have to run your life. I'm going to share techniques to help you slow down this process and stop it from plummeting you into the depths of despair. Get Practical tools for na...

The thing that got me into psychology is the same thing that almost completely derailed my entire life. And to this day, I'm still not sure what that thing was. Why did I feel like I didn't belong in this world? What caused me to believe the life I was living was the wrong one? I spent 5 years chasing a feeling that something existed "out there" that could fix everything inside o...

Which decisions actually impact our lives in a meaningful way? Yes, you make around 35,000 decisions every day, but not all of these are created equal. If you're a chronic over-thinker, or a decision-paralysis person, I'm going to teach you how to stop worrying over the decisions you make. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCogWI9kVVvmRRPzzQBrOwzg/jo...

When you've been bullied, judged, abused, belittled, mocked or shamed, for how you look or act, it can cause a hyper awareness in one. That hyper awareness and attempts to "fix the problem" can actually lead to a new perceived problem from other people - narcissism. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCogWI9kVVvmRRPzzQBrOwzg/join Get Practical t...

Improving your mental health is difficult even in the best of situations, but what happens when the people you entrust to help you are actually making you worse? Picking a good therapist is incredibly important. I'm going to walk you through my criteria for finding a therapist who is not only competent, but specialized and compatible. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtu...

The American concept of "self care" is actually leaving you worse off. The pursuit of self care as a product or experience misses the fundamental elements of actual self care that we truly need. I'm going to breakdown what actual self care is, and how you can practice it in practical, daily ways that will improve your life significantly. Join this channel to get access to perks: http...

You might be inadvertently making your life more difficult because of one simple behavior. Our social structures are based on punishment, and this is the major obstacle for why you don't change. Avoiding punishment is the less effective internal driver. Sure, we don't want pain, suffering, loss, grief, discomfort - no one really does. But, our brains are wired to want reward even more than...

What do you do when the normal strategies for getting better don't work? What do you do when the things other people are doing don't seem to work for you? What do you do when you see others getting better, succeeding, moving forward with life while you're stuck in the same place - or going backwards? I'm going to teach you 3 steps - in the right order - that will help you build a b...

The secret is out: gratitude is good for your mental health. But what do you do if you don't feel it? You might be in the situation I was in: I logically understood that gratitude was helpful; I could agree that I had things in my life worthy of gratitude; and yet it never translated from a concept in my head to an experience in my heart. If you experience depression and anxiety, it's not...

Friday Q&A #4

Almost getting kicked out of my doctoral program taught me 4 important lessons that have helped me get from that low point to where I am now. Everyone faces setbacks - some are circumstantial, some are self-inflicted - but how you approach those setbacks will set the tone for everything that follows. Get my book: For When Everything is Burning https://bit.ly/forwheneverythingisburning Get better s...

Yes, Borderline Personality Disorder is an incurable mental illness. But that doesn't mean it's unmanageable. Dr. Courtney Tracy, AKA @the.truth.doctor, explains how to organize your life around it and build something worth living. Find Dr Tracy here: https://www.thetruthdoctor.com Get my book: For When Everything is Burning https://bit.ly/forwheneverythingisburning Get better sleep, naturally (af...

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If you feel like you're in a constant cycle of building things in life just to watch them get knocked down again, there could be a very good reason for that. Broadly speaking, our lives are divided into two phases: times when we can thrive, and times when the best we can do is survive. The length of these phases can depend on lots of circumstancesA lot of struggle comes from misunderstanding t...

There are typically 3 reasons you might struggle to set and achieve goals.1. You don't have enough time or energy to do the thing2. You forget about the goal because, hey, life happens3. You don't totally understand why a method, process, whatever actually works. I'm problem-solving all 3 of these for you, and I'm giving you 13 concrete strategies that will transform your mental he...

Friday Q&A! Thanks to my ultra supporters for the great questions.

Your negative thoughts don't actually belong to you. You've adopted, adapted, and taken ownership of ideas from other people, situations, and interpretations - but these are both not true and not yours. I'm going to show you how to remove those thoughts and replace them with native thoughts that actually help you. Get my book: For When Everything is Burning https://bit.ly/forwheneveryt...

Life can be a very lonely and isolating journey. Because of this one fact, your relationship with yourself is the key to how your life turns out. Despite being the most impactful figure in our lives, we tend to mistreat ourselves. Many of us have damaged our relationship with ourselves, leading to self-neglect, self-hate, and a lack of compassion - I know I did for a really long time. To mend this...

Welcome to the first YouTube ultra supporter Q & A! In these episodes I'll be discussing topics chosen by YouTube members.

Depressive episodes can completely change how you function. From isolation to depriving yourself of things that feel good, from constant sleeping to insomnia, from lethargy to excessive energy. Whatever your specific experiences, life just seems to grind to a halt during a depressive episode. But that doesn't have to be the norm for you, and I'm going to talk through how to change it for y...

Time does not heal ALL wounds. Period. In fact, with some kinds of emotional wounds, time actually makes things worse. So what does time have to do with grief, and what happens if you're grieving for an extended period of time? I'm talking through some of the symptoms and effect of prolonged grief disorder in this one. Get my book: For When Everything is Burning https://bit.ly/forwhenevery...

If you struggle with chronic anxiety, your life tends to revolve around three phases. This pattern happens because of what's called the "worry bin" in your brain, a space for stress and worry. Understanding those phases, and how to manage them, will help you reduce anxiety by shrinking the worry bin. You can't eliminate stress entirely, but you can learn skillful distractions to...

Therapy does not have all the answers. Some of the biggest turning points in my life have had nothing to do with therapy or even psychology. I 'm sharing 8 of these because I know that getting to a place of more positive mental health will always take more than therapy. I'd love to know what things you'd add to these. Let me know in the comments. Get my book: For When Everything is Bur...