by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 25, 2023 | Well Being, Health
You and I both know you are not a human Bento box. Trying to “unpack” your health experience by neat packages of symptom categories is not what the average person has been trained to do. Your physician, on the other hand, has been trained to conceptualize...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 25, 2023 | Well Being, Health
Who Gets Sick? When Dr. Sheldon Cohen and his team at Carnegie Mellon University studied which participants became sick after having a cold or flu virus squirted in their noses and then isolating them in a hotel room (I know, you’re thinking, “How...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 24, 2023 | Depression, Therapy
For those who suffer from depression, mornings are often the worst time. Once the day gets started, a person’s mood usually lifts and energy will return. But those first few moments of having to adjust to a day when everything feels bleak is beyond challenging. Here...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 24, 2023 | Depression, Therapy
The Submarine Expert My husband tells this awesome story: Something’s gone wrong on a nuclear submarine and they call in “the expert” to help figure it out and fix it. So he comes aboard and spends about an hour walking up and down the entire submarine, finally...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 23, 2023 | Anxiety, Therapy
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~W. Edwards Deming This is a time of year when people often are readying themselves for change. The start of a new year is only days away. You might be thinking about making some New Year’s...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 20, 2023 | Therapy, On The Couch
You know you need to leave him or her. It’s a bad…no…it’s a truly toxic relationship. But you just can’t quit it. You know you need to stop _____________. (Smoking, drinking so much, overeating, cutting, gambling, working so much, killing yourself.) You just can’t...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 20, 2023 | Depression, Therapy
Have A Crappy Day! One of the good things about positive psychology is that it encourages individuals to view the glass as half full instead of half empty. Seeing the silver lining in dark clouds can help you cope with the flood of an emotional monsoon...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 20, 2023 | Depression, Therapy
Cut Your Therapy Bill In Half! Psychotherapists can do so much to improve mental health. They can provide information, teach you skills you need to learn to cope better with stress, handle panic attacks, or fight fair without damaging your intimate partnership....
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 20, 2023 | Depression, Therapy
Why are people suffering from depression almost always also very tired? The relationship of depression to fatigue is very complicated, for the following reasons: 1. Fatigue may actually precede or predict the development of depression, through mechanisms...
by Dr. Anita Sanz | Apr 20, 2023 | Therapy, On The Couch
The Curtain Falls You might have just hit a rough patch. Or maybe those feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt are part of a larger problem that relates to anxiety or depression. Whatever the reason, you might feel like a big curtain has fallen that makes it hard...
