by Dr Aletta | Apr 10, 2014 | Anxiety, Life Matters
By now you have probably heard about the Heartbleed Bug that has the Internet community shorting out its circuits. With headlines, tweets and posts with titles like “Why Heartbleed Is the Ultimate Web Nightmare” its a wonder any of us got any sleep last... by Dr Aletta | Jul 7, 2010 | Mental Health, Relationships, Self-Esteem
Recently, I received an email from a reader asking for some help. He knew his cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) which had gone well for several years, hit a snag. He felt his hidden obsessive thoughts about his therapist were getting in the way of the...
by Dr Aletta | Oct 17, 2009 | Mental Health, Self-Esteem
At the end of a long day toward the end of a long week, I was sitting in my office trying to gather myself together so I could go home. There were emails to answer, phone calls to return, notes to finish and plans to make for the next day. Did you ever see...
by Dr Aletta | Oct 12, 2009 | Anxiety, Self-Esteem
Skimming through Real Simple magazine at the checkout line of the supermarket, I came across Dr. Robert Leahy’s “10 Ways to Cope with Anxiety.” Dr. Leahy is the director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy and the author of many books on the subject....
by Dr Aletta | Oct 7, 2009 | Mental Health, Self-Esteem
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that with recession-related anxiety saturating the very air we breathe, we might be a bit slow to trust our financial decisions.For decades, economists did not find much merit in connecting psychology with finance. That...