What is the preferred way to take ADHD medication to optimize its benefits?
It does make a difference when you take your ADHD medication. Sustained release stimulants are better taken with food to slow down the rate of absorption. The opposite is said for tablets, which should be taken on an empty stomach so that you don’t lose effectiveness...
How do I prevent creating a tolerance of Ritalin?
Quite often people mistake the loss of side effects as evidence that the med is no longer working. Side effects similar to ingesting a substantial amount of caffeine will dissipate over time. However, with continued use the focus should remain and can be drawn upon...
How much screen time is too much for your child?
This is an important question especially with respect to the increasing number of suicides. Recently, we lost 2 well known, successful, highly accomplished and talented people. With ever increasing usage of screen time of all sorts, we have lost the ability to...
What will you do when you feel lonely?
Most people feel lonely because they are lacking a connection, feel isolated or don’t have something to do. Due to the widespread use of social media channels, people are connecting, communicating with much less frequency. Connection means actually talking and being...
How do you deal with multiple priorities with ADHD?
When you have ADHD, everything is a priority:) That is mostly due to the fact that every time there is incoming info, it becomes front and center of importance. Best to have an ongoing list that you review and if necessary, rewrite every morning according to priority....
What are the advantages of having ADHD and the disadvantages of ADHD?
Those with ADHD are more aware of their surroundings which translate into many advantages. They are quick thinkers with great survival skills and sense of humor. They are adventurous and usually think of challenging things to do. ADHD people are extremely efficient at...
What are some fun facts about ADHD?
ADHD has a genetic link. Most law enforcement, military (especially special ops) are ADHD because they are hyper-vigilant (more aware of their surroundings than most). Usually excel at video games. Interesting conversationalists. Very repetitive. Superb memory for...
What’s the toughest thing about having ADHD?
In a nutshell, short term memory problems. The ability to commit to memory is preceded by attention. The difficulty remembering everyday things like where you left something, appointments, assignments, due dates, work completion, what you ate for breakfast, etc. are a...
What is Freud’s most interesting and controversial theory?
In my opinion, Freuds most significant and interesting contribution was his structural model of the id, ego and superego. The model identifies three parts to the psyche as being the person’s natural instinct (Id), the critical and moralizing self (Superego) and the...
Fitness is Both Mind and Body | Mental Fitness Laguna Hills
Many people think of fitness as being the condition your body is in at that moment in time. Being fit means different things to different people usually involving exercise and nutrition. Sadly, the mind is frequently left out of the equation when evaluating fitness...
Emotional Sobriety | Addiction Therapy Laguna Hills
In the spectrum of addiction, a person who is clean and sober is not simply abstaining from the use alcohol, drugs, food, or sex. In order to obtain an ongoing successful recovery, sobriety must encumber resolution of the addict’s emotional issues. The failure to...
Is Summer Is A Time for Relaxation? | Stress Management
Often when we think of summertime, images of relaxing at a beach or pool comes to mind. Parents and kids get a breather from school. It is a common time to get away from work to vacation. This thought can be shot down with a single email, text or phone call from...
Holiday Stress Management | How To Get Through The Holidays, Part 2
Like most holidays, Christmas and Hanukkah evoke memories of childhood or earlier years. Holiday Stress Management! For many, these holiday spirits are all consuming. The joy of being with significant others, exchanging gifts and sharing meals makes for many people...
How to Make It Through the Holidays | Holiday Stress Management
Part I, Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is around the corner. As soon as it arrives, Christmas is right behind. The holiday season can be joyous, depressing or disastrous or a mixture of any or all of these feelings. Regardless, it is a stressful time for individual,...
Can Everyone Find Happiness In Life? | Relationship Problems Laguna Hills
The most common complaint I hear from people that enter my therapy office is that they are not happy. Not happy with their marriage, partner, children, friends or relatives. Not happy at work, school, or home. They seek therapy in order to find what they believe is a...
Orange County Group Therapy | How to Benefit from Group Therapy
Group therapy can be a powerful way to implement change. The aim of group psychotherapy is to help with solving the emotional difficulties and to encourage the personal development of the participants in the group. Group psychotherapy is suitable for a large variety...
On Divorce and Reasons Not To Remarry | Couples Therapy Laguna Hills
It wasn’t that long ago when marriage was a lifelong commitment. For centuries, the precedent was to marry young and start a family. Success was measured in the ability to raise a family that would do the same. Families were extended entities that endured generations....
Out of Darkness? | Dr. Heidi Berman Psychologist Orange County
The Stigma of Mental Illness After working in the behavioral health care industry for well over two decades, I have witnessed some change. Most of the changes have affected the settings for how professionals treat patients and the level of available care. This change...
Orange County Depression Counseling | Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Last
Orange County Depression Counseling - How many times over the years have you made a New Year resolution? Maybe it was to be more organized, excel at work, study more, be less stressed, take a vacation, spend more quality time with your spouse, partner or kids or...
Too Little Too Much | Orange County Therapist
As an Orange County Therapist, i know that we live in a dichotomous world. We are either on overload or empty. Hundreds of friends on Facebook but very few we physically connect with any regularity. Not enough quality sleep, time spent with family and taking care...
Laguna Hills Therapy | ANXIETY- FRIEND OR FOE?
As a psychotherapist that provides Laguna Hills Therapy, it is safe to state that everyone has experienced “anxiety” one or more times in their life. According to Merriam Webster, anxiety is a “painful or apprehensive uneasiness of mind usually over an impending or...
Men Women Should Love to Hate | Relationship Issues Laguna Hills
You just came out of an exhausting relationship and can’t bring yourself to think about dating. Or maybe you are in the dating arena searching for that special someone. Most likely when you least expect, it happens. You meet a wonderfully charming, attractive and...