Mental Help - Dr. Allan Schwartz, LCSW, Ph.D.'s DocTalk Podcasts

Dying to Live - Interview With Heart Transplant Patient Gaea Shaw: Dying to Live is a Small But Extraordinary Book Written By An Even More Extraordinary Woman Named Gaea Shaw. it is the Auto Biographical Story of a Woman Who Underwent Heart Transplantation As a Result of a Gene That Caused Her to Have Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, a Potentially Fatal Heart Defect. Gaea Shaw's Story is Important in That it Touches Upon Several Important Mental Health Issues. Among These Issues Are: 1. How Do you Learn to Deal With Loss and Grieving? 2. How Do you Deal With the Possibility of Immediate Death in the Midst of Life? 3. How Do you Survive After Experiencing Depression and Mental Anguish As a Result of a Combination of Grief, and Being Informed That you Have a Heart Condition That Can Result in your Death? 4. How Do you Cope With the Amount of Anxiety and Panic That is Experienced As a Result of all of the Above Factors? in Her Book, Gaea Does Not Deny the Fact That She Experienced Depression, Misery, Fear, Anxiety and Even Panic on the Road to the Heart Transplant. Rather, She Explains How She Learned to Deal With and Quiet Those Emotions. (Date: Nov 2006 Time: 00:21:39)

Harmful NameCalling & Labeling: some words to avoid (Date: Jan 2006 Time: 00:06:28)

Humorous Political Correctness: Enough to drive us crazy! (Date: Dec 2005 Time: 00:05:12)

Drugs Alcohol and Television: Danger in your television set (Date: Dec 2005 Time: 00:07:25)

Pets, Parents and Children: Serious consequences (Date: Nov 2005 Time: 00:09:05)

Recognizing Drug Abuse: Symptoms of drug abuse (Date: Nov 2005 Time: 00:08:41)

Shyness: What Do I Do?: How To cope (Date: Oct 2005 Time: 00:08:43)

Physical and Mental Health: Care for both types of health (Date: Oct 2005 Time: 00:10:04)

Love, Marriage and Arguing: It's how you argue that counts (Date: Oct 2005 Time: 00:06:14)

Drugs Children and Advertising: media advertisements for drugs (Date: Oct 2005 Time: 00:07:02)

Depression and Creativity: The commonly held myth (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:04:37)

Male Anger and Aggression: Difficulty expressing emotions (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:05:39)

Eating Disorders #3: binge eating disorders (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:07:51)

Choices Choices Choices: Too many choices! (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:07:32)

Need for Humor #2: Mother and daughter (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:06:10)

Eating Disorders #2: sx. of anorexia and bulimia (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:07:28)

Need for Humor Program: Relieve stress and depression (Date: Sep 2005 Time: 00:03:44)

Reducing Anxiety Program: One method anyone can use (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:04:44)

An Emotional Support Dog: Reader email (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:03:13)

Soothing Summer Rainfall: Meditate and relax (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:07:07)

Eating Disorders #1: the media influences children (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:03:58)

Words to Avoid Podcast: Avoiding quarrels (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:04:02)

Time Waits for No One: Valuing what we have now (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:01:50)

Mutual acceptance: So many are disappointed (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:05:09)

Service Dogs and Pat Schwartz: Service dog trainer interview (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:12:31)

Depression Program: many people dismiss depression (Date: Aug 2005 Time: 00:05:09)