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It's not only the people afflicted that suffer with a mood disorder, the parents who love their children so much struggle as well. We hear from several parents on the things that they go through while helping their children through life.

On this episode we give some common responses to some common anti-psychiatry claims. On our last episode, we went over five common claims made by the anti-psychiatry/anti-psychology movement and this time we aim to answer them.

On this episode, we take a closer look at the experience of loneliness and go over one clear method in order to deal with it. In addition, we introduce our new co-host, Catie.

On this show we go over several ways to get involved fighting stigma on campus. We also interview Active Minds founder, Alison Malmon. Activeminds.org is an organization with over 200 chapters on campuses across the nation that fights stigma and gets conversations started about mental health.

On this short discussion, Ryan and Chris talk about the central message of the blog and show: taking control of your health while you can.

Ryan and Chris discuss the fundamental concept of the week: Do you really believe that it's possible to get better? Do you really believe that if you do something, it will make a difference? The science continually says that people that take consistent and active steps in order to fight their depression have a very high rate of getting better. However, people all too often fall into the trap of giving up and getting frustrated, using negative self-talk like, "It's no use." But it is of use. Ryan and Chris get the ball rolling this week, talking about why you should take it to the bank that taking positive action against depression gets results!

Ryan talks about how the media's reaction to the Fort Hood tragedy is one of the few where psychological state is tossed aside as irrelevant in favor of the shooter's religious background.

Hey guys, it’s Aime Lynn with Flipswitch’s Erasing Negative Thoughts segment. On each edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we identify one way of "stinkin thinkin" and show how it’s more often than not, either completely untrue or extremely exaggerated. On this edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we’ll cover the thinking pattern known as Overgeneralization. This one’s a biggy. It’s not, “I messed up this one time on this project. Oh no. I mess up EVERY on EVERY project.” It’s not, “I’m not going out tonight with my friends.” It’s, “I NEVER go ANYWHERE at all.” You made a bad grade on a test? Is it because you ALWAYS fail no matter what you do? These are just few examples of overgeneralization. Overgeneralization occurs when you take one single event and infer from it a pattern of life that is almost always true, regardless of how much evidence to the contrary there is. You can usually tell when overgeneralization is going on because examples often make use of words like “always” “never” or “every”:

On this week’s theme, we talk about the very beginnings of getting a grip on your problems. When it starts, people invariably know at least one thing: they don’t like how they’re feeling. But from there, they have to figure out what’s wrong and why? Maybe it’s one specific situation that you’re not happy with. More likely, it’s a number of things that are related. If nothing else, someone can at least define the nature of how they’re doing. Are they sleeping well? Are they eating well? Are they feeling happy? Are they feeling lonely? Are they angry? and on and on. The more you can define the problem. The more you can come up with solutions to “STARVE THE BEAST” of bipolar disorder and depression. Ryan and Chris talk about how to define lousy feelings more accurately with a real world example from a special guest host (hint: Teeny Teen).

Hey guys, it’s Aime Lynn with Flipswitch’s Erasing Negative Thoughts segment. On each edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we identify one way of “stinkin thinkin” and show how it’s more often than not, either completely untrue or extremely exaggerated. On this edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we’ll cover the thinking pattern known as “Disqualifying the Positive.” We’ve all done this one, right?: “Sure I get A’s on all my tests, but I made a C on this one. I’m just a C student.” “This person said he didn’t like me. I don’t have any friends. Sure, lots of people hang out with me, but they don’t count.” “I’ve just not ever been happy. Sure there were times when I thought I was happy, but I don’t really think I was now.” And on and on. Disqualifying the positive is a particularly insidious distorted way of thinking because it allows you to gloss over literally mountains of evidence to the contrary of your other distorted ways of thinking. Why? Because, regardless of all that evidence, none of it

This is Ryan with another round of Flipswitch’s Mood Disorders In the Media. On Mood Disorders in the Media, we take a closer look at one instance of how the media is currently handling mood disorders. News, movies, tv, radio, the internets......if it’s somehow connected to the media, it’s fair game. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. A show about depression and bipolar disorder and growing up..........we could only avoid it so long. Love it or hate it, here it is. We’re finally going to deal with it. Yes. Yes. Yes, that’s right. You know what I’m talking about. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, .....today we talk about.......The Twilight Series. Okay, okay! Girls, calm down, please! And if you guys over there can stop looking annoyed for just one moment, we can get through this promptly! Look, for better or worse, the Twilight series of books and movies have been hugely successful, raking gobs and gobs of money, with more sequels planned for the future. Maybe it’s the Romeo-an

Hey there. This is Aime Lynn with Flipswitch’s Erasing Negative Thoughts. On each edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we identify one way of stinkin thinkin and show how it’s more often than not, either completely untrue or extremely exaggerated. All too often hand in hand with depression, don’t fall prey to these outright false ways of thinking. On this edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we’ll cover the distorted way of thinking pattern known as “Emotional Reasoning”. “I’m so overwhelmed with work. I know I’m doing a bad job.” “I’ll feel awful. I am awful.” “I don’t feel like going out and being around people, so I shouldn’t go out and be around people.” These are just a smattering of examples of emotional reasoning. Emotional reasoning occurs when you simply think that reality matches the way you feel instead of anything to do with evidence or physics or anything else in the world. Nope. You feel it, therefore it’s true. Except, that’s not how the world really works does it? I mean, you don’t

Welcome to Flipswitch’s mood disorders in the media. On Mood Disorders in the Media, we take a closer look at one instance of how the media is currently handling mood disorders. News, movies, tv, radio, the internets......if it’s somehow connected to the media, it’s fair game. Did you know that people are getting depressed while watching blue people that live in communal setting in nature? According to the media news reports, there’s something about the peace of the land and these blue folks that has people all sad and blue because life out here in the real world just isn’t as carefree. No, we’re not talking about the smurfs. We’re talking about Avatar. In Avatar, a blue humanoid species known as the Navi live on the planet Pandora, existing in a manner that is very similar to Native Americans of centuries past. They commune with nature in a tranquil and peaceful way, going so far as to do some kind of vulcan mind meld with the roots of trees......or something......I was still getting used to the 3D

Hey there. This is Aime Lynn with Flipswitch’s Erasing Negative Thoughts. On each edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we identify one way of stinkin thinkin and show how it’s more often than not, either completely untrue or extremely exaggerated. It’s important to not fall prey to these outright false ways of thinking cause let me tell ya, they’re good friends with depression. On this edition of Erasing Negative Thoughts, we’ll cover the distorted way of thinking known as “Minimization”. No no no. We’re not talking about shooting a science laser at you and shrinking you to the size of a pea so that you’ll end up running away from a giant human foot and a spider trying to eat you...no, that’s miniaturization. This is something completely different. It helps to think of minimization as denial-lite. It’s not full blown pretending that something doesn’t exist or isn’t happening, but it’s not quite admitting to the full magnitude either. For example: “Who cares if i took that guy’s headphones. His pa