Schizotypal and Schizoid Personality Disorders: An Overview

By Vidya Koesmahargyo

Personality disorders (PD) can be generalized into three clusters of patterns of thinking and behavior. Cluster A personality disorders are characterized by odd, eccentric…

Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Socialization

By Vidya Koesmahargyo

Schizotypal personality disorder (StPD) is characterized by acute discomfort or reduced capacity for close relationships, as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities…

Autism and Romance: Spiting the Odds

Relationships are hard.

A theme brought up by almost every talk show host, therapist, advice blog, and B-rated rom-com, romantic relationships arguably stand to be among the most difficult things any person is expected to undergo in their…

Adrian Monk in Pop Culture

Typically, the media isn’t the best platform to showcase mental illnesses and the diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment that come along with them. If anything, the media is highly insensitive towards individuals that are diagnosed with these illnesses and have to constantly battle…

Boys Don’t Cry

From a young age, boys are told to “man up” whenever they get upset or express pain but society’s expectation for males to mask their emotions may have more harmful effects on their mental health. Dividing the expression of feelings between genders could be a major factor to blame for why depression…

Love and Sadness: Depression in Relationships

If you turn on the radio it’s likely you’ll hear a few love songs at the top of the charts and if you are searching for a movie to watch there’s a whole section of romantic comedies to choose from. There’s even a holiday dedicated to love! We live in…

Patients with Severe OCD Can Receive Social Security Benefits

Did you know if your OCD has become so severe to the point that it is extremely interfering with your performance at work or your personal life, you are eligible for Social Security Disability benefits? When an individual…

Autism and Self-Identity — A Spectrum of Perspectives

by Redmond Roxas

In the field of Psychology, whether you’re a grant-prospecting researcher or a clinical therapist, a social worker or school psychologist, it’s likely that you are taught the importance of…

Modernizing Medicine through Internet-delivered Treatments

Because of the efficacy in terms of both cost and outcome of exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating anxiety disorders, it is imperative to make this type of treatment accessible to all of the patients who…

Stigma as a Risk Factor for Anxiety Disorders

In earlier posts we’ve looked at how stigma can prevent people from getting the treatment they need for the mental health disorder they already have, but the findings from a cross sectional study released in August 2015 suggest that stigma might also…