Dr. Patricia Bay - Therapy In A Nutshell

OCD mental health disorder that can range from extremely mild to severe and debilitating. It can affect anyone. This episode will help you understand what OCD is and the help that is available to treat it.

Many people are extremely upset, nervous, disappointed and fearful for our country. Feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and feeling powerless are weighing heavily on many. Know that you are not alone. Hopefully this episode will offer a few coping skills.

What are the things that you are afraid of that keep you from moving forward in your life? Are your phobias harming your health, your relationships or just limiting who you are. This episode will help you learn to ride that dragon.

LONELINESS often creates depression and hopelessness. This episode explores how loneliness can happen, the underlying feelings and how it can take on a life of its own. Learn how to begin to change things and diminish the loneliness in your life.

Special guest, Amanda Nardo, discusses with Dr. Patty the impact of school closures on children and families. This episode will help parents know they are not alone and give you some coping skills.

These political times, as well as CoVid issues, have been stressing people to the max. If you are struggling, know that you are not alone. Listen to others calling in with their own advice as well as Dr. Patty giving you coping skills.

Do you experience the "silent treatment" from someone you care about? Are you the one who does silent treatment on sometimes else? When is this "taking some space" and when is it emotional abuse?

BETRAYAL changes you and alters your life. It wounds your heart and feels like a knife in the gut. This episode helps you understand, and put into words, what betrayal might mean to you. More importantly, learn how to move through betrayal and trust again.

Are you, or someone you care about, the victim of sustained emotional abuse? The absence of bruises and broken bones does not necessarily mean that abuse is not there. This episode will help define this difficult relationship situation and give you some direction to get help. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/patricia-bay/support

Do you deal with someone who exhausts you with excessive needs and constant boundary busting? It might be a partner, child, employee or family member. It might also be you that is the high maintenance individual. This show will address these challenging relationships and give you some tools to deal with them. 

Do you, or someone you love, struggle with getting super emotional -- anxious, angry, frustrated, etc-- and do not know how to RE-CENTER and calm down? This episode will help you learn how to RE-CENTER and calm down.

These are chaotic and difficult times. The pandemic, school closures and unusually structured school openings are taking an emotional toll on children of all ages. Wearing masks and dealing with social distancing is also unusual for kids. There has been a big uptake in depression in children.

Do you use a lot of profanity... Swearing... Cussing... Dropping the "F" BOMB? Do people you love and trust talk about your "potty mouth?" This episode explores why we use profanity and what to do if you would like to cut back or eliminate it all together from your communication behavior.

Do you have an addiction to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, sex, food, shopping, gambling, gossiping and/or political hatred? This episode explores those areas of addiction and offers ways to begin to change.

What do you believe? What do you doubt? Your relationships, career, financial stability, parenting, spiritual beliefs and much more, are a reflection of what you believe. If you want to make a change, you must first understand what it is you believe about that which you want to change. Learn how to harness the power of BELIEVING.

The chaos and conflict of our current political environment can be deeply troubling to many people. It can affect friendships, family relationships and professional connections. Sometimes irreversible changes occur. Are you feeling stressed and overwhelmed by everything that is currently happening?

Sometimes the desire to die is a coping mechanism for controlling emotional pain. This is not about severe suicidal feelings but that slight "I just want things to stop hurting" feeling that some people channel into subtle suicidal thoughts. Learn how this can be am unhealthy coping mechanism and how to find healthier coping tools.

Understanding how habits are formed will let you learn how to either make a new habit or break an old habit. It isn't difficult. There are some very specific steps that will help you accomplish your goals. (I apologize that I could not edit out the commercials in this episode. There has been a glitch in the app and I'm working on it. Just zoom through them.)

What are your personal rules that you have developed in an effort to keep yourself safe? These rules, formed over your lifetime from experiences, traumas, modeling from your upbringing, and more, can be a window into your soul. Learn how to take a look at yourself so you can grow and evolve. (Note: I apologize that I was unable to edit out the commercials from my radio show. Just zoom through them, if you would like.)