Debbie Covino, PhDMay 152 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDFeb 262 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDJan 152 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDDec 18, 20212 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDNov 12, 20211 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDSep 25, 20212 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDMay 23, 20211 minNext 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDFeb 27, 20212 minBad 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.
Debbie Covino, PhDAug 2, 20202 minBad 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.
Debbie Covino, PhDMar 28, 20201 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDOct 5, 20192 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDJun 8, 20192 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDMar 24, 20182 minBad Thought: People always see me as a failure.Things are not always, never, totally, or constantly any one way.
Debbie Covino, PhDOct 8, 20172 minBad 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.
Debbie Covino, PhDSep 9, 20172 minBad 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.
Debbie Covino, PhDJul 17, 20171 minBad 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.
Debbie Covino, PhDMar 29, 20172 minBad 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...
Debbie Covino, PhDFeb 12, 20171 minBad Thought: My Life Sucks.Speaking of things in flux, our moods and feelings (like our bodies) are always shifting.