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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. None of the problems we think about when we think about mental disorder—mainly depression and the anxiety disorders—are explained by psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm, and not for want of trying. Proteins keep us alive.

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Transform Your Anxiety With This Single Step

The Anxiety Guy

This technique is a cornerstone of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a widely recognized and effective treatment for anxiety disorders. To transform your anxiety, we must first identify these connecting ideas and examine them. Another way to transform your anxiety is “thought substitution.”