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Qigong Meditation: The 5 Principles

Qigong meditation is an ancient Chinese healing practice that helps maintain physical, mental, and spiritual health.  Used for thousands of years, th...

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What’s The Difference Between ADD And ADHD?

In the evolving landscape of mental health, the distinction between ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorde...

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Brain Disorders that Everyone Should Know

With growing mental health awareness, families have access to more information and treatment for brain disorders than ever before. This increased know...

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Neuroplasticity: What You Need to Know

Neuroplasticity occurs as we interact with our environment.  Our brains learn to adapt to situations, so we continuously learn from our experiences a...

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The Tai Chi/Mental Health Connection

Tai Chi is an ancient series of movements used to practice Chinese martial arts.  However, the deliberate, slow movements are deceiving as each repre...

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How to Break Up with Your Therapist

Therapy is just like any other relationship.  You need to feel a connection and a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment, or it just doesn’t work....

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How to Help a Friend Who is Suicidal

The idea of someone we love wanting to end their life is a terrible scenario we hope we never have to face.  However, all of us should understand how...

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Understanding Dysgraphia

Dysgraphia is a handwriting impairment that can interfere with learning.  Students with dysgraphia can experience issues with writing, spelling, or b...

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Dyslexia: What You Need to Know

Dyslexia is what is known as a language-based learning disability. It presents various symptoms that cause difficulties with language skills, most co...

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The Stages of Grief: Denial

The experience of grief is a universal one, but it is unique to each individual.  Grief can be caused by a range of situations, including the loss...

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Mantra Meditation: What You Need to Know

Mantra is an ancient word from Sanskrit, broken into ‘man’, meaning to think and ‘tra’, meaning tool.  Mantras have been used for thousands o...

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Manic Depression: What You Need to Know

Manic depression, now more commonly known as bipolar disorder, is a life-long mood disorder affecting about 2.6% of Americans. The extreme fluctuation...

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Understanding Selective Mutism

Selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder causing fear of speaking and social interactions in certain situations.  Although the child can comm...

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Breaking Down Separation Anxiety

Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) causes heightened worry in children when separated from family members or the people they are closest to.  Fears of...

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What is Treatment-Resistant Depression?

Depression causes deep, long-lasting feelings of sadness or hopelessness. For most people, seeking help provides relief through either medication, the...

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Persistent Depression: What You Need to Know

Depression causes feelings of hopelessness and deep sadness.  If you suffer from chronic depression for more than two years, you could be suffering f...

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What Exactly is Panic Disorder?

If you experience recurring sudden fear or anxiety for no apparent reason, you could be suffering from panic disorder.  For many, panic attacks inclu...

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Understanding Social Anxiety Disorder

Over 5 million people in the US live with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). SAD causes intense feelings of self-consciousness around others. As a result,...

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Understanding Situational Depression

Previously, we’ve written about different types of depressive disorders, including Seasonal Affective Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder.  The ...

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What is Art Therapy, and How Does it Help?

You often hear people say that a certain hobby is therapeutic for them, but it’s unlikely that said activity is an actual clinical treatment. Well, ...

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How to Take the Stigma Out of Mental Illness

Mental illness impacts 1 in 4 American adults each year, yet many go undiagnosed. While global acceptance of mental health conditions has increased, t...

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Understanding the Spectrum of OCD

It’s not uncommon to hear people casually remark, “Oh, it’s just my OCD,” when referring to a detail-oriented task. Obsessive Compulsive Disor...

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How ERP Therapy Treats Anxiety

People are experiencing symptoms of anxiety and being diagnosed with anxiety disorders in record numbers, as we’ve previously shared. Look no furthe...

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The 10 Steps in Creating an IEP

We discussed the differences between an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and a 504 Plan. As we noted, if your child has one or more disabilities th...

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CMS Supports The RPFPC

Chicago Mind Solutions is passionate about treating patients who have suffered concussions and traumatic brain injury (TBI). We’ve written about the...

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5 Common Misconceptions About ADHD

One of the most misunderstood mental health conditions is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder . How often have you heard someone in a moment of di...

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How CBT Addresses Emotional Challenges

Negative mantras that play on a constant loop in our heads, like “I don’t deserve success” can be transformed into, “Wait a minute; I do deser...

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Brainwaves: What You Need to Know

A lot goes on in our brains. No organ works harder or has as much control over us, and it seems each year, medical science makes new discoveries regar...

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What is Neuropsychological Testing?

What is Neuropsychological Testing? Neuropsychological testing, also referred to as “neuropsych testing,” is an evaluation of a person’s cogniti...

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Dealing with Anxiety

What is anxiety? Anxiety involves the mental experiences of worry, nervousness, dread, or fear. It also involves many different physical experiences s...

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Reopening and Returning to Society

In recent months, our world has looked very different as a result of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. After weeks of practicing proper social dista...

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What is Teletherapy?

Teletherapy is mental health treatment delivered online using secure video conferencing. The type of treatment is based on the needs of the client....

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Learning Disabilities vs. Autism

Is Autism a Learning Disability? The short answer to this question is “no.” The long answer is a bit more complicated. For one thing, an autistic ...

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What is Anxiety?

Is it Anxiety, a Phobia or just Life in Twenty-first Century? By Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Gene...

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Is there such a thing as an ADHD diet?

By Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. Educational Psychologist Chicago Mind Solutions  “You are what you eat” is an axiom that I’m sure most healthcare and f...

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Depression Part III: Modern Therapy

For the past few months, we’ve been discussing the symptoms, causes and various treatment options for depression. Currently, it’s estimated that 1...

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Depression: What’s It All About?

By Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. Educational Psychologist “I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendenc...

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The History of Neurofeedback: Part III

Ever since the 1970’s, when scientists like Dr. Barry Sterman and Dr. Joe Kamiya first demonstrated that patients with epilepsy could avoid seizures...

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The History of Neurofeedback: Part II

By Ari Goldstein, Ph.D. Educational Psychologist For far too long, neurofeedback has been viewed as a therapy based more on wishful thinking than scie...

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The History of Neurofeedback

There has always been a certain air of mystery about Neurofeedback. How does it work? Why is it so effective in treating brain conditions as varied as...