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    Bad Thought: I can’t escape this anxiety.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • May 15
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I can’t escape this anxiety.

    I sat with a client the other day who was feeling anxious. He’d had a bad day at work and traffic was unusually heavy on his way to see...
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    Bad Thought: I can’t shake this depression.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Feb 26
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I can’t shake this depression.

    A couple of recent clients have been feeling depressed despite the facts that Covid is now waning and that neither has lost work. Having...
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    Bad Thought: I don’t know how to cope with Covid.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jan 15
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I don’t know how to cope with Covid.

    As you might well imagine, people are struggling to deal emotionally as well as practically with yet another round of Covid. Omicron has...
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    Bad Thought: I feel stressed at the holidays.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Dec 18, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I feel stressed at the holidays.

    You’re probably not surprised to hear that I’ve been seeing a number of clients who find the holidays stressful. For some, it’s the...
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    Bad Thought: The news makes me afraid.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Nov 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Bad Thought: The news makes me afraid.

    I've spoken before in this blog about the fear that news reports can provoke in us (July 7, 2017), and about the idea of cutting down on...
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    Bad Thought: This awful image is stuck in my head.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Sep 25, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: This awful image is stuck in my head.

    A client I’ll call Carmen had broken up with her boyfriend months ago but in her mind’s eye, she kept seeing the angry look he had on his...
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    Next blog: Bad Thought: I can’t get over my anxiety because life is hard.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • May 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Next blog: Bad Thought: I can’t get over my anxiety because life is hard.

    Judson Brewer’s recently released book, Unwinding Anxiety, demonstrates that anxiety is not a necessary reaction to life but instead a...
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    Bad Thought: I am a mistake.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I am a mistake.

    My client “Lauren” was depressed ever since she’d had a mishap at work...“I feel like a total loser,” Lauren told me.
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    Bad Thought: There’s something seriously wrong with my mental health.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: There’s something seriously wrong with my mental health.

    I read this morning that rates of anxiety and depression are up four-fold since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Bad Thought: I can’t find a ray of light during this coronavirus pandemic.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Mar 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Bad Thought: I can’t find a ray of light during this coronavirus pandemic.

    We’re all enduring a terrible time in world history. Coronavirus has taken many lives, and we remain in the thick of the outbreak and...
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    Bad Thought: My day is ruined.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Oct 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: My day is ruined.

    ...“learned optimism,” the idea that we’re not hopelessly locked into a pessimistic mindset, even if we may have been practicing it...
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    Bad Thought: I won’t be able to do it all.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jun 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I won’t be able to do it all.

    And while we want to listen to our inner guidance system about not over-scheduling ourselves, I’m also here to tell you that my edgy...
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    Bad Thought: People always see me as a failure.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Mar 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: People always see me as a failure.

    Things are not always, never, totally, or constantly any one way.
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    Bad Thought: Anxiety is taking over my life.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Oct 8, 2017
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: Anxiety is taking over my life.

    Anxiety can be so overwhelming that it often seems one’s entire life is being consumed by it. One thinks, Anxiety is taking over my life.
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    Bad Thought: I’m afraid to speak in front of colleagues.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Sep 9, 2017
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I’m afraid to speak in front of colleagues.

    ...when faced with a personal fear or weakness, to think, My imperfections humanize me and connect me to others.
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    Bad Thought: The papers are full of bad news.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jul 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    Bad Thought: The papers are full of bad news.

    There is something we can do to give ourselves a break from the mainstream media: read Greater Good Magazine.
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    Bad Thought: My brain can't change.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Mar 29, 2017
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: My brain can't change.

    Anxiety is a pattern that has created a kind of pathway in the brain, and a person can learn to abandon this pathway and walk down...
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    Bad Thought: My Life Sucks.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Feb 12, 2017
    • 1 min

    Bad Thought: My Life Sucks.

    Speaking of things in flux, our moods and feelings (like our bodies) are always shifting.
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