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Dr. James M. Ottesen
• Clinical Psychologist • Author • Speaker
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The Good Cupcake: Uplifting Thoughts
INGREDIENTS FOR A GOOD SELF-ESTEEM CUPCAKE (THE DO'S) Being Reassured By Others - This means changing the way you think about yourself based on what a trustworthy person tells you. This means to have a new truth about you. To give enough trust to another trustworthy person to believe what they are telling you. To be teachable. I have a few examples to highlight this point. If someone is 15 minutes late to an appointment with me and they feel bad about it and apologize
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3 days ago9 min read


Decreasing Worry by Increasing Joy
"When you choose to worry, you choose not to have joy or happiness. You will not be experiencing both worry and joy at the same time" --Dr. O Generalized Anxiety Disorder In the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition by the American Psychiatric Association), there is an anxiety disorder called generalized anxiety disorder. The diagnostic criteria for this disorder include: Excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation), occurri
Dr. James M. Ottesen
3 days ago2 min read
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