How Effective Are Antidepressants?

An Inquiry: Are they worth taking if you have bad physical symptoms for a anxiety disorder? How We Would Respond: Antidepressants really help some people; other people who take antidepressants don’t seem to get much help from them at all, and some people who take antidepressants experience quite bad side effects and so stop taking them. … Read More

Stop Obsessive Thinking?

An Inquiry: I’ll think about something over and over and over and I can’t stop. How can I fix this? How We Would Respond: Your concern energizes, and reinforces, the thinking you say you’d like to stop. If you were to stop labeling your thinking as something problematic, as something that is a cause for concern, the … Read More

Overwhelmed By Stress

An Inquiry: Feeling overwhelmed by stress. Contemplating suicide. How We Would Respond: If you’re feeling suicidal seek professional intervention immediately. You can find suicide prevention help here: http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org Stress and suicidal contemplation are caused by the exact same thing: they are caused by accepting thinking / judgment as true. If people would only come to … Read More