Hope – Basic Steps Mental Health

Managing a Crisis

Scott Alpert — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:00:57 +0000

When situations are too much to handle, it is natural to feel overwhelmed, shut down, panic, and regress to a childish state. If you ever have felt like this before you are not alone – one out of five people suffer from conditions that warrant serious treatment, but how many actually get the help they […]

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Dream Your Dream

Scott Alpert — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:29:56 +0000

It’s that time of year again. The time to set your sights on the new year, create some plans that are unobtainable, disappoint yourself, and then fall back into the same old limiting patterns. Humiliating? Of course, it is. This article was written to improve your odds of obtaining your desires, but in order to […]

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Have I Lost It?

Scott Alpert — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:08:32 +0000

I can’t believe it, but I began writing another book. Even though I am in the middle of professionally recording my music, you would think that I didn’t have much time to do anything else. All I know is that for the last few days, I’ve had this nagging voice inside of me that had […]

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The Benefits of Group Therapy

Scott Alpert — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:00:35 +0000

I read an article years ago about the top 50 therapy approaches for treatment and could kick myself for not saving it. What I recall was group therapy was in the top five, family therapy in the top ten, number 7 was aversion therapy – like Schick Shadel used to offer before their recent close, […]

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Fix-It Time

Scott Alpert — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:00:21 +0000

While driving to work this week my car developed a problem, now it is in the shop and getting worked on. Such is life. It seems like I have had my share of fix-its recently, including changing the internet provider for a faster network and getting a new computer because the old one was bogging […]

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Making the Change

Scott Alpert — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:20:10 +0000

When you are sick and tired of being sick and tired then life becomes something to dread. I for one am all too familiar with waking up in the morning and wondering if, no, wondering when, I was going to have another panic attack. Then shortly after would feel my heart pounding. At that point, […]

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I Did What I Did

Scott Alpert — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:00:46 +0000

Well, that was interesting. I tried to open up an article I wrote recently about my Bottom Line theory of healing and it gave me an error message. I’ll take that as a message from God. Now I’m laughing. Perhaps God is telling me I still need to refine my approach. Such is life. You […]

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I Can Do This!

Scott Alpert — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:00:24 +0000

You would think that being a Doctor of Clinical Psychology would afford me special powers, stability, and constant happiness. Well, I wish. It turns out that even we professionals are still human beings and still have to deal with our own emotions. Each time I go after something different, and a bit of a stretch, […]

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Have Hope, Dare to Dream

Scott Alpert — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:14:25 +0000

If you have the opportunity, a great book to read is “Love, Miracles, and Medicine” by Dr. Bernie Segal. He helped people with advanced cases of cancer heal and sometimes without medical interventions. He advocated having the desire to live. There aren’t a lot of clinical books on the value of hope, but with hope, […]

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Are You a Doer or a Viewer?

Scott Alpert — Wed, 25 May 2022 04:29:04 +0000

An interesting topic popped up in a process group this week about being a doer or a viewer. How would you answer this? I often wonder if our tendency to explore our world or simply watch it stems from the family we grew up in. Did your family of origin tend to sit and watch […]

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