People differ naturally with respect to how much sleep they need to feel rested and function well in their waking lives. On average, most people need between seven and eight hours, while smaller numbers need either less (e.g., five to six hours) or more (e.g., nine to ten hours). …

Although psychotherapy for casual or unspecified reasons can happen, most people do not have the means nor time to do it for its own sake. Indeed, most folks would probably say that psychotherapy should “have a point,” or should serve a particular end, to be worth the investments. Simply put…

In the mixture for many people’s day-to-day emotional distress, an often common ingredient is avoidance of feared or otherwise disliked experiences of different kinds. People most commonly avoid the following things or some combination(s) of them: Specific people or types of interactions with people Specific animals Unpleasant thoughts and emotions …

In my clinical practice so far, I have seen two broad types of negative emotions among people of all stripes and situations. People feel anxious, depressed, angry at their circumstances, sad about losses, and afraid of frightening possibilities. In many cases, these emotions follow naturally from the situation(s) in which…

One of the most common obstacles people confront in psychotherapy, especially in therapies using behavioral techniques, is inertia. In physics, inertia means (1) a thing that is not moving will stay not moving; or, (2) a thing that is moving in a specific direction will stay moving in that direction…

When many folks from my generation and I were kids, we played a few or several titles from the Mega Man video game franchise, a juggernaut series of action platformer games for the 3rd and 4th generation consoles of the late 80s and 90s. The gameplay of each was simple…