by Kadi Cooke | Jun 25, 2024 | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What is OCD? Living with mental health disorders can be challenging, especially when feeling out of control of thoughts, feelings and actions. This is often what it feels like when having obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD,...
by PACMH Team | Feb 22, 2021 | Imposter Syndrome
What is Imposter Syndrome? It is the idea you believe your success is due to luck, not because of your expertise. Typically, people with such a syndrome fear others will eventually find out they have been faking. In 2020, the term imposter syndrome was searched twice...
by PACMH Team | Feb 22, 2021 | Perfectionism
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen, Being Perfect Perfectionism has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years and has become an epidemic that has...
by PACMH Team | Jan 4, 2021 | Self-Talk
I have a confession. I used to view self-talk as self-deception. When I was a teenager, I learned positive self-talk from a teacher. I resisted it because she taught me to feed myself sugar-coated messages to feel better. I didn’t appreciate the power of effective...
by PACMH Team | Nov 2, 2020 | Authenticity
In the current cultural and political climate, authenticity is rare, and fleeting at best. When we think about the characteristics of authenticity, politicians are not generally the first group to come to mind. Culturally, we are bombarded with conflicting...
