In this episode of "Help Me, Rhonda!," your host, clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg discusses depression: the symptoms, potential causes, and methods that can be used to reduce symptoms of depression. Dr. Karg urges the audience to seek professional help if you or someone you care about is suffering from symptoms of depression. 

If you or someone you care about is thinking about harming themselves: Lifeline is a hotline that has counselors available 24/7  Dial 9-8-8 or 1-800-273-8255. You can also call your local mobile crisis services or call 9-1-1 for help.

To contact Dr. Karg, you may email her at Dr.Rhonda.Karg@gmail dot com.

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As part of her series on relapse prevention, In today’s episode of “Help Me, Rhonda!,” clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg continues to discuss relapse prevention and underscores the importance of getting the support you need to help you obtain and maintain your sobriety from drugs, alcohol, or other addictive or compulsive behaviors you are trying to change. To help you resist the urge to numb out, Dr. Karg recommends using skills which are essential for maintaining your sobriety, including:

-"changing people, places and things" that may serve as triggers for craving and relapsing 
-getting social support from people who support your recovery and/or are also working on their sobriety
-finding professional help if you have untreated trauma, depression, anxiety, or other mental health symptoms 
-maintaining emotional sobriety
-learning new effective coping skills  

Dr. Karg encourages you to watch the other videos in this series for other methods to help you establish and maintain sobriety. 

In today’s episode of “Help Me, Rhonda!,” clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg discusses how to repair a relationship if you've done something that hurt another person. Dr. Karg discusses how to make a true apology to increase the likelihood that you will be forgiven, including steps for making amends and living amends to make it up to them. 

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To contact Dr. Karg, you may email her at Dr.Rhonda.Karg@gmail dot com

In today's episode of "Help Me, Rhonda!," clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg teaches the core mindfulness and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skill of a gratitude meditation. This skill will train your brain into finding more joy in your life if you practice it for 5 minutes a day. This is a great way to start out your day: From a place of gratitude. It will shape how the rest of your day turns out because you will have an attitude of gratitude. This skill can be used to help improve your mood, regulate your big emotions, cope with stressful situations, and live a more rich, full life by being right here, right now. She describes the benefits of being present to help reduce symptoms for a wide variety of mental conditions, including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and substance abuse by boosting your serotonin and preventing you from being out in the future (anxiety) or back in the past (depression) because you are right here, right now, in the present moment. 

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In today's episode of "Help Me, Rhonda!," clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg teaches the core mindfulness and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skills of Observe, Describe, and Participate. These skills can be used to help improve your mood, regulate your big emotions, cope with stressful situations, and live a more rich, full life by being right here, right now. She describes the benefits of being present to help reduce symptoms for a wide variety of mental conditions, including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and substance abuse by boosting your serotonin and preventing you from being out in the future (anxiety) or back in the past (depression) because you are right here, right now, in the present moment. 

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In today’s episode of “Help Me, Rhonda!,” clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg discusses how to "boss up" and change your life by making things happen for yourself to create the life you want that's filled with meaning and purpose, especially if being adventurous and having fun is important to you.  This can include more time connecting with others and also having more fun by yourself.  Dr. Karg underscores the importance being authentic as much as you can be when it comes to practicing self-care and taking responsibility for how you spend your time when you have gaps in time when you don't have other more important obligations. Again, this time IS being productive because you are taking care of what's most important: Your health and well-being by doing what sounds like a fun adventure. She urges you to practice self-care by living life fully, being present with the people who are important to you, and going after what you want in life by being spontaneous and having more fun. 

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To contact Dr. Karg, you may email her at Dr.Rhonda.Karg@gmail dot com

In today’s episode of “Help Me, Rhonda!,” clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg discusses the importance of checking in with yourself to see how you're feeling and if your arousal level is above a 6 or 7 on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being completely calm and 10 being in the red zone, to practice self-soothing to get your activation level down to a 3 or 4. This will allow you to pause before reacting so you can choose how to respond to a situation and you won't be simply reacting because you are adrenalized and in fight-or-flight mode. Self-soothing is so important for your mental health. Dr. Karg discusses various ways to check in with yourself and self-sooth using the 5 senses. 

#helpmerhondakarg #mentalhealth  #mentalhealthsupport  #mentalhealthawareness #depression #anxiety #emotionalsobriety #emotionregulation  #calmingdown #HALT 

To contact Dr. Karg, you may email her at Dr.Rhonda.Karg@gmail dot com

In today’s episode of “Help Me, Rhonda!,” clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg discusses the effects that social isolation has on the brain in terms of your memory, concentration, recall, problem-solving, and other analytical skills can be significantly weakened by too much social isolation, according to the research. While this could be the effect of "long COVID" for some people, it could also be related to spending too much time alone. Dr. Karg underscores the importance of putting yourself out there especially when you want to isolate because being around others will help strengthen those important neural pathways and be operating at optimal capacity as a result of being connected to others. Being social can also allow you to create the life you want that's filled with meaning and purpose. Dr. Karg underscores the importance of empowering yourself to live life fully, be present with the people who are important to you, and go after what you want in life. 

#helpmerhondakarg #mentalhealth  #mentalhealthsupport  #mentalhealthawareness #findingajob  #friendships #relationships #empowerment #manifestation #goforit #justdoit #life #lifeisgood #lifehacks #livelifefully

To contact Dr. Karg, you may email her at Dr.Rhonda.Karg@gmail dot com

As part of her series on relapse prevention, in today’s episode of “Help Me, Rhonda!,” clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg continues to discuss relapse prevention and underscores the importance of getting the support you need to help you obtain and maintain your sobriety from drugs, alcohol, or other addictive or compulsive behaviors you are trying to change. To help you resist the urge to numb out, Dr. Karg recommends using skills which are essential for maintaining your sobriety, including:

-understanding the relationship between your emotional state and your drinking or drug patterns. These emotional states may serve as triggers if you were self-medicating your anger, sadness, fear, or shame. 
-discovering the source of your unbearable pain and treating those wounds so you don't feel the need to numb out
-getting social support from people who support your recovery and/or are also working on their sobriety
-finding professional help if you have untreated trauma, depression, anxiety, or other mental health symptoms 
-maintaining emotional sobriety
-learning new effective coping skills  

Dr. Karg encourages you to watch the other videos in this series for other methods to help you establish and maintain sobriety. 

#helpmerhondakarg #mentalhealth  #mentalhealthsupport  #plantmedicine #mentalhealthawareness #depression #anxiety #relationships #spirituality  #healing  #healingjourney #sobriety #soberliving #recovery #addiction #alcoholcessation  #smokingcessation #selfmedicating #emotionalsobriety #emotionregulation #12steps #psychedelicmedicine 

To contact Dr. Karg, you may email her at Dr.Rhonda.Karg@gmail dot com

In today’s episode of “Help Me, Rhonda!,” clinical psychologist Dr. Rhonda Karg discusses how putting yourself out there can allow you to create the life you want that's filled with meaning and purpose. In this third part to the series, Dr. Karg invites you to let go of relationships causing you harm, to establish new relationships, and also nurture your existing relationships that are important to you. She underscores the importance of empowering yourself to live life fully and go after what you want in life. 

#helpmerhondakarg #mentalhealth  #mentalhealthsupport  #mentalhealthawareness #findingajob  #friendships #relationships #empowerment #manifestation #goforit #justdoit #life #lifeisgood #lifehacks #livelifefully

To contact Dr. Karg, you may email her at Dr.Rhonda.Karg@gmail dot com

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