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The Psychology of Depression and Anxiety - Dr. Scott Eilers — 267 episodes
Winning The War On Emptiness: 7 Strategies For Overcoming Anhedonia
7 Strategies For Living With Analytical Suicidal Ideation
The pursuit of happiness is making you miserable
When feeling happy feels uncomfortable or scary (positive affect intolerance explained)
What if I’ve been so depressed for so long that I literally don’t know how to live?
5 Reasons Your Depression Will Never Get Better
Surprisingly effective techniques for dealing with anxiety and panic (with Dr. Bonnie Zucker)
12 tools to use when your nervous system goes completely haywire
Autism, TMS, MeRT, PDA, and “Glimmers” with Kelley Jensen of Brain Performance Technologies
3 Subtypes Of Suicidal Ideation And How To Deal With Them (Why Crisis Resources Fail So Many Suicidal People)
How You Should Manage Your Anxiety - With Dr. Russell Kennedy
10 Things I Hate About Your Therapist
Differential Diagnosis Series: ADHD VS Depression
How to care less about what other people think, but in a healthy way
How to radically accept ridiculous things that you hate
Are you subconsciously sabotaging your mental health? Here’s 6 reasons why:
These 7 simple habits are utterly destroying your mental health
Depression That Never Ends - Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
Why are so many autistic people depressed and suicidal?
The Disturbing Links Between High Functioning Depression and Maladaptive Striving
No matter how hard I work, I never feel like I’m getting anywhere (bucket theory)
But, Why Exist?
People tell me I should talk to somebody, but no one wants to listen
2 strategies for managing the chronic exhaustion of being mentally ill
People living with chronic depression are fighting a daily multi-front war you cannot comprehend
Fix your black and white, all or nothing negative thoughts about yourself with one simple graph
If You Survived Early Childhood Neglect And Isolation And Your Adult Relationships Feel Empty
Refusing to accept a broken world does not make you a broken person. In fact, the opposite
How to stop thinking about the things that stress you out - a strategy for defeating rumination
5 normal habits that will destroy your mental health
This skill stopped my stupid brain from ruining my life
I Know You’re Horribly Depressed, But You Still Need To Wash Your Butt
The Person You Think You Are Doesn’t Exist (How To Correct Negative Self-Concept)
Why Your Happiness Never Lasts - Emotional Operating Systems Explained
Why you constantly need approval from other people (and how to stop)
Yes, You Deserve To Live, Even If Your Thoughts Say Otherwise
5 Types Of Anxiety That Are Completely Optional
No, You Aren’t The Only Common Denominator In All Of Your “Failed” Relationships
10 Ways To Get The Best Sleep Of Your Life In 2026
How To Have Healthy Relationships Even While Living With Depression
Are My Suicidal Urges My “True Self?”
14 Critical Mental Health Lessons I Learned in 2025
Why You Can Never Find A Therapy Skill That Actually Helps (Turning The Ship)
I Have Intense Mood Swings, But I Don’t Have Bipolar Disorder (Cyclothymia Explained)
The Antisocial Individual’s Guide To Functioning In Society
How To Survive This Life If You Weren’t Born Resilient
How To Appreciate What You Have In Life Before You Lose It
Empty Depression, Social Isolation, Addiction, Broken Systems, and Moments That Saved Me
14 Tips To Survive The Holidays With Sanity (Mostly) Intact - From A Psychologist
Psychologist’s 2026 Guide to PTSD and CPTSD
An Antidote To Suicide - Making A Violent Commitment To Living
The Light Between The Leaves Book Preview (The Lake/Envy Is Ignorance)
Navigating The Grief Of A Broken Life
This Powerful, Unpredictable Tool Has Ended Many Of My Depressive Episodes
The Future of Therapy and AI - with Jacob Ward
The Light Between The Leaves Book Preview (The Forest/Regrowth)
My Mind Is A Prison I Cannot Escape From
10 Daily Micro-Habits To Help You Feel Less Depressed
Somebody I Love Wants To Die - What Should I Do?
You Ruin The Few Good Days You Have Every Time You Make This Mistake
How To Keep Going When You Feel Nothing
How To Stop Giving Up On Yourself So Easily
What Is Revenge Bedtime Procrastination And How Do I Stop It?
8 Simple Dietary Changes That Will Make You Less Depressed
Do I Have ADHD, Depression Or Both?
5 Coping Skills For Depression You (Probably) Aren’t Using - But Should Be!
Why Do We Hold On To Things That Hurt Us? (Sunk Cost Fallacy Explained)
Why You Can Never Force Yourself To Do Anything
Why Do So Many People With Depression Not Get Better In Therapy?
If You Don’t Know How To Stop Having Panic Attacks, Please Watch This Video
How To Operationalize Your Mental Health
13 Controversial Opinions About Therapy
Your Anxiety Routine Is Ruining Your Life - Here’s 6 Ways To Stop It
So You Ruined Your Life; Now What?
The 6 Lies The World Tells You And How To Talk Back To Them
15 Things You Should Never Do When You’re Depressed
Your brain is trolling you; here’s how to make it stop
10 Ways To Stay Physically Active When You’re Depressed
How To Eliminate All Meaningless Suffering From Your Life
I’m Kind Of Happy, But I kind Of Want To Die
If The Good Feelings Never Seem To Last, Listen to This
Why You Run Out Of Time Every Single Day
19 Questions To Ask Yourself During Depressive Episodes
Your Personality - Feature or Bug?
What You Can’t Do Because Of Your Depression
Hacking Anhedonia with Time and Resource Stacking
Sobriety, Fitness, Service and Faith (with Clint Lowery of Sevendust)
8 philosophies that had shocking impacts on my mental health
How Following Your Heart Can Destroy Your Life
12 Reasons You’re Always Tired Even Though You’re Getting Plenty Of Sleep (Manta Sleep Inclusion)
When Adult Trauma Unleashes Childhood Wounds; with Anna Runkle
What to do when working on yourself feels utterly pointless
Clinical Psychologist Reviews AI Therapists
7 types of anxiety that don’t get better with therapy or medication
21 minutes of mental health advice from a clinical psychologist living with depression
If You’re Losing The Will To Stay Alive, Please Watch This Video
A Psychologists’s Guide to Surviving The Loneliness Epidemic
Why You Self-Sabotage And How To Stop
Coping with severe depression, strong ambition, and high intellect
Practical psychological strategies for coping with pet loss
3 Quick Ways To Stop Overthinking
Why You Have To Face Your Fears
A day in the life of severe depression and anxiety recovery
Why bed rotting is bad for your mental health and 6 ways to stop
The Lies Your Mind Tells You About Shame And Failure
4 “Toxic” Behaviors That Improved My Mental Health
The One Thing Nobody Tells You About Mental Health Recovery
The Year I Gave Up On Life - And How I Came Back From It
The Counterintuitive Truth About Failure That Changed My Life
How Parenting Styles Create Maladaptive Behavior in Children
Why Your Past Always Seems Better Than Your Present
25 Ways To Improve Your Mental Health In 2025
Sometimes “Laziness” Is Actually Depression
5 Stages of Mental Health Recovery
8 Signs You Have High Functioning Depression
The 5 Rules of Recovering From Trauma
2024 Holiday/Winter Survival Guide For Mentally Ill People
Your Relationship With Technology Can Ruin Your Mental Health
How To Make Healthier Choices In Life (DBT Wise Mind Tutorial)
Take Care Of Yourself As If Your Life Depended On It (Because It Does)
Everyone In Therapy Should Ask Their Therapist These 3 Questions
How To Cope With Feeling Under Appreciated And Invisible
6 Reasons Your Depression Isn’t Getting Better
Why Therapy Doesn’t Work For Mentally Ill People
What The Years You Lost To Mental Illness Say About You
It’s OK To Never Be OK
Fix Your Living Space, Fix Your Brain
Why Relaxation Techniques Don’t Work For You
How To Rejoin The World After Becoming Disconnected
Why Am I Sad When Nothing Is Wrong
Why Pushing Yourself Too Hard Makes You Shut Down
How To Fall Asleep Instead Of Passing Out (And Why It’s Better For You!)
How To Grieve For Someone Who Is Still Alive
Alternate Treatments for Severe Depression and Anxiety (TMS, Ketamine, ECT, Microdosing)
How To Stop Hating Yourself
6 Ways You’re Accidentally Making Your Anxiety Worse (& What To Do Instead)
A Way Out Of The Downward Spiral Of Worthlessness, Hopelessness, And Depression
Why The Changes You Make Never Seem To Last
7 Foundational Things That Will Improve Your Mental Health
8 Reasons Your Sleep Sucks (And How To Fix It)
8 Misconceptions about Passive Suicidal Ideation
Brutally Honest Advice To My Severely Mentally Ill Younger Self
6 Common Mental Mistakes Making You Miserable
How to annihilate your negative thoughts
How to Deal With Low Energy and Motivation from Depression
How To Be Alone Without Being Miserable
Why You Self-Sabotage And How To Stop
Sometimes You Have To Let It Hurt
Five One-Minute Activities to Reduce Symptoms of Depression
4 things people with mental illness do without thinking
Disentangling Your Thought Patterns Using FTP
You’re Doing A Better Job Than You Think
What To Do When Your Empathy Becomes A Disability
4 Ways To Stop Waking Up Too Early
8 Oddly Specific Symptoms of Depression
You Can’t Be Growing All The Time
Why You Do Amazing, Then Fall Apart Sometimes
How To Change The Channel In Your Mind
Please Let There Be A Purpose To All This Pain
The Person I Want To Be Doesn’t Exist
4 things you should never say to someone who is struggling (and what to say instead)
Why Smarter People Are More Depressed
6 Things I stopped doing to better manage my stress
What I Do When I’m Completely Shut Down By Stress (Psychological Minimalism)
10 Way To Use Your Smartphone To Improve Your Mental Health
How To Have Mostly Good Days (The Happiness Equation)
You’re Worth More Than You Think (Don’t Misuse The Transitive Property)
3 Coping Skills For Insecurity That DON’T Work (And One That Does!)
Letting Go Of Shame And Regret From The Past
The Dangers of Self Diagnosis
How To Use The Most Misunderstood Coping Skills (Radical Acceptance & Pain Budgeting)
Why We Cannot Simply “Choose Happiness” (And What We CAN Choose!)
Why Doing Nothing Is Dangerous For Rumination (Default Mode Explained)
If You Have Failed Time And Time Again, Try This (Hard Reset Your Life)
How To Have A Healthy Relationship With Your Emotions
Please Don't Ever Give Up
How I Keep My Life Focused On My Mental Health
How I Keep Going In The Face Of Total Apathy And Anhedonia (Apathyception)
3 Reasons Why Getting Better Can Feel Worse
Stop Telling Yourself Stories That Hurt You
How to tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy social withdrawal
3 Things I Do When Existence Feels Like A Burden
What to do if you have no normal to return to
Loving yourself does NOT make you a narcissist - hating yourself DOES make you depressed
6 Ways To Stay (Semi) Functional During Depressive Episodes
2 Essential Truths and 3 Non-Negotiables Of Living With Mental Illness
How To Cut Off The Catastrophic Thoughts In Your Mind
What I Do When I Feel Like I Don’t Belong In This World
How To Stop Worrying Over Every Little Thing
Why Narcissism And Severe Insecurity Can Look The Same
How To Find A Good Therapist (It’s Simpler Than You Think!)
Self Care is a Scam
Why Every Day Is A Little Bit Harder
Three Steps To Rejoining The World (Bio Psycho Social Treatment Model)
6 Ways To Experience Genuine Gratitude
Why Do I Always Need To Do Two Things At Once, Why Is Driving So Stressful, Anxiety Or Excitement?
The Day I Almost Gave Up
Living Well With Borderline Personality Disorder with The Truth Doctor (Dr. Courtney Tracy)
How To Stop Dissociation, Why You Can't Cry, Parenting With Depression, Polyvagal Theory
Sometimes The Best You Can Do Is To Just Survive
13 + 1 Ways to Fix Your Mental Health in 2024
How to talk to depressed people, getting good results from therapy, and how to recover good memories
Make Your Negative Thoughts Your Worst Enemy
5 Ways To Heal Your Relationship With Yourself
How to Avoid Traumatizing Your Children, Anxiety vs Excitement, and Why I Started a Podcast
7 Tips To Survive A Depressive Episode
Prolonged Grief Disorder
Why Your Anxiety Never Goes Away
8 Truths That Changed My Life
Fix Your Broken Sleep
7 Costs Of Spending Excess Time In Fantasy Worlds
Managing Catastrophic Thinking
How to handle the 4 different types of anxiety
I Can’t Let Good Things In
6 Things I stopped Doing To Fix My Anxiety
How to stop the solar system of pain
Do horrible thoughts make you a horrible person?
How to stop being so afraid of everything
I just don’t care what happens to me
The Thing You’re Most Ashamed Of May Have Saved You
How to rebuild after a depressive episode
What is learned helplessness?
Existence is Traumatic
6 Things I stopped doing to fix my depression
No one else knows how it feels to be you
Self-harm is not about what you think
When stress becomes overwhelming
When you've lost the will to do what you need to do
What to do when your dreams die
Why You Shut Down Sometimes
Stop Pessimistic Thinking With Mindfulness
How to Destroy Imposter Syndrome
4 Ways To Overcome Passive Suicidal Ideation
My Anti-Anhedonia Morning Routine
Staying Hopeful In Times Of Darkness
Can We Please Stop Over-Complicating Treatment?
Depression Spirals and Opportunity Cost
Anxiety and Sound Sensitivity (Misophonia)
The Most Important Question To Ask Yourself
The Most Effective Treatment for Mood and Anxiety Disorders
5 Things to Know About Passive Suicidal Ideation
Why Happiness Always Escapes You
Change a little, change a lot
Keep your boundaries no matter what!
How To Deal With Anger
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) - With Alex Reynolds
Challenging Negativity Bias With The Values Pie Chart
Dealing with guilt and shame
Procrastination, Executive Functioning, and Nervous System Regulation (with Sasa Harper)
Psychosis, derealization, depersonalization, and dissociation with depression and anxiety
Trying to live after trying to die - with ValiantFate
Getting Tested For Depression
Depression or Bipolar Disorder?
Can depression and anxiety make you sick?
Getting things done when you’re depressed and anxious
Anhedonia (Why you feel empty sometimes)
Challenging the lies that can ruin your life
Unofficial symptoms of anxiety
Anxiety Explained
All About Depression
Why Nothing Ever Changes
When Therapy Goes Wrong
When life is good, but it doesn’t feel that way
Nobody is hopeless (no matter what you’ve been told)
Trauma and Forgiveness (Episode 3)
Stop procrastinating and start today!
Life can be beautiful