Emotional Minutes and other videos produced by Dr. Matt B cover a ton of mental health topics. Depression, anxiety and social anxiety, difficult or negative emotions, how to have more positive emotions, coping with stress and other difficulties, ways to get better sleep, treatments for mental health disorders, and so much in-between!
Information from Emotional Minutes™ videos is given for educational understanding of mental health concepts and research-supported coping strategies. Information provided is not in the form of mental health counseling, psychotherapy, or direct advice.
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How to find good mental health info online: Strategy #2
With so much mental health information online and on social media, you deserve to be ...
How to find good mental health info online: Strategy #1
With so much mental health information online and on social media, you deserve to be ...
Emotional Minutes 50: Obsession with happiness and how to feel more content.
In our last 8 episodes, we have been talking about positive emotions and how to ...
Emotional Minutes 49: Positive emotions wrap-up
Our last eight episodes have been on how to experience more positive emotions. This episode ...
Emotional Minutes 48: How to find meaning in activities
How can I find more meaning in my day? Intentionally engaging in meaningful activities is ...
Emotional Minutes 47: Engaging activities and flow state
Engaging activities are activities that capture our attention, keep us highly focused on and engaged ...
Emotional Minutes 46: Pleasurable and enjoyable activities
Pleasurable and enjoyable activities have multiple emotional benefits: they can bring about more positive emotions ...
Emotional Minutes 45: Acts of Kindness
Our next positive emotion strategy in our series on increasing positive emotions is acts of ...
Emotional Minutes 44: How to feel more gratitude
How do I feel more gratitude? This video below describes how. Like other positive emotions, ...
Emotional Minutes 43: Tracking positive experiences
How do I have more positive experiences? Our current series talks about multiple ways to ...
Emotional Minutes 42: Can I feel more positive emotions?
Can I make myself feel more positive? Luckily the answer is yes! But we can’t ...
Emotional Minutes 41: Positive emotions and their benefits
Experiencing positive emotions can have many benefits on well-being, emotional coping, and even physical health. ...
Emotional Minutes 40: Psychedelic assisted therapy and mental health
Psychedelics for mental health has become a popular topic. Evidence shows that psychedelics like psilocybin ...
Emotional Minutes 39: Coping with social anxiety
Social anxiety can be a difficult experience for many people. If you experience social anxiety, you ...
Emotional Minutes 38: How to deal with loneliness
Loneliness can be a difficult experience to cope with. The good news is that there ...
Emotional Minutes 37: How to become a therapist
Are you interested in a career as a therapist or mental health counselor? Do you ...
Emotional Minutes 36: How do I handle a recent trauma?
How do I handle a trauma that just happened? What should people do after a ...
Emotional Minutes 35: Is the COVID pandemic a trauma?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for so many of us. Many people have begun ...
Emotional Minutes 34: Sadness and Stress about the U.S. Exit from Afghanistan
The U.S. military recently pulled out of Afghanistan. Many agree the US should have pulled ...
Emotional Minutes 33: Coping with Climate Anxiety and Stress
We have been seeing a lot of climate change news on some of the extreme ...
Emotional Minutes 32: Dreams and Why We Dream
Why do we dream? What do my dreams mean?? Why do I have nightmares? Dreams ...
Emotional Minutes 31: Awe and how to find awe
What is awe? The clip below describes the positive emotion of awe and ways to ...
Emotional Minutes 30: Insomnia and how to get better sleep
Not getting enough sleep?? People often ask about insomnia and how to get better sleep. ...
Emotional Minutes 29: Coping with re-entry anxiety
Coping with re-entry anxiety can be difficult, even when getting back to more normal routines ...
Emotional Minutes 28: How to handle vaccine anxiety
COVID-19 vaccines become more available and more individuals are becoming vaccinated. But a lot of ...
Emotional Minutes 27: Political stress and anxiety
Throughout history, there can be times of political uncertainty, protesting, or even rioting (for example, ...
Emotional Minutes 26: Seasonal Depression (aka “Winter Blues”)
It’s common to experience depression or depressed/low mood during certain times each year, especially in ...
Emotional Minutes 25: Sticking with New Years Resolutions
Resolutions are decisions to initiate some sort of behavior change or improve conditions in one’s ...
Emotional Minutes 24: Gratitude and practicing gratitude
The holidays are a time when people often practice gratitude. But it is also something ...
Emotional Minutes 23: Holiday blues / Holiday stress
The holidays can be a time of joy or fondly remembering previous holidays. It can ...
Emotional Minutes 22: Social support
Seeking and having support from others (aka “social support”) can be very beneficial for emotional ...
Emotional Minutes 21: Psychology and weight loss surgery
There are multiple psychological aspects of losing weight in general and for having bariatric weight ...
Emotional Minutes 20: The psychology of chronic pain
There are many aspects of physical pain that can be affected by emotional or behavioral ...
Emotional Minutes 19: Coping strategy: behavioral activation
There are a few different ways to cope with emotion states like depression and anxiety. ...
Emotional Minutes 18: Venting and the Myths of Catharsis
It’s a common idea in Western culture that “letting it out” or emotionally venting (known ...
Emotional Minutes 17: What is rumination?
Sometimes people ask, “What is rumination?”. This video explains rumination as extensive thinking through or ...
Emotional Minutes 16: Grief and Complicated Grief
Grieving a loss is a natural part of life that everyone will experience. For a ...
Emotional Minutes 15: Are Psychologists Crazy?
People often wonder, are psychologists analyzing me when I meet them? This and other questions ...
Emotional Minutes 14 – Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its possible causes
Experiencing posttraumatic stress after a traumatic event can be extremely difficult. There are some myths ...
Emotional Minutes 13: How to find a therapist or counselor
How do I find a therapist? Finding a therapist/counselor can be difficult. Many of the ...
Emotional Minutes 12: What causes anxiety and ways to deal with anxiety
Anxiety can be a natural part of our lives, but it can also become very ...
Emotional Minutes 11: What causes depression?
There are many possible causes of depression, and research has focused in on a few ...
Emotional Minutes 10: What are signs of depression?
Difficult times like the COVID-19 pandemic can contribute to experiences like depression, but it is ...
Emotional Minutes 9: Coping with anxiety and depression
Difficult times like the COVID-19 pandemic can really make us feel overwhelmed and experience a ...
Emotional Minutes 8: BLM protests and why opinions clash
Why do people clash over social causes like the Black Lives Matter movement and protests? ...
Emotional Minutes 7: Emotional coping strategy – Accepting my emotions?
Allowing yourself to experience certain emotions without trying to change them can sometimes be difficult, ...
Emotional Minutes 6: Emotional coping strategy: Self-talk
How do you talk yourself through moments in which difficult thoughts and emotions come up? ...
Emotional Minutes 5: Emotion strategy – there’s a choice?
There are many ways to decide how to deal with situations that bring up a ...
Emotional Minutes 4: The Situation? How to Cope.
There’s not always a “best” way to regulate or manage emotions because so many situations ...
Emotional Minutes 3: What is Emotional Regulation??
The experience of our emotions and what we do with them are shown to be ...
Emotional Minutes 2: Why do we have emotions??
Sometimes emotions can be difficult to deal with or cope with, but they actually help ...
Emotional Minutes 1: Dr. Matt B? Who??
An introduction to Dr. Matt B and his brief easy-to-understand clips mental health, stress, and ...