The Mental Breakdown

Welcome to The Mental Breakdown Morning Show! Each weekday morning, we will to help get your day off to a great start. Today we review an article reporting the benefits of psychological therapy with back pain (read the article here).

Our schedule will be as follows:

Monday - Weekday Start-up

Tuesday - Mental Health in the News

Wednesday - Questions from Listeners

Thursday - Brown Bag

Friday - Weekend Wind-down

We hope that you will join us each morning so that we can help you make your day the best it can be! See you tomorrow.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR A LIMITED TIME, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 80% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: LABORDAY

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

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About our theme song:

Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100647

Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Mental Breakdown Morning Show! Each weekday morning, we will post a brief podcast to help get your day off to a great start. We plan to follow a schedule, where we will cover a particular theme each morning.

Our schedule will be as follows:

Monday - Weekday Start-up

Tuesday - Mental Health in the News

Wednesday - Questions from Listeners

Thursday - Brown Bag

Friday - Weekend Wind-down

We hope that you will join us each morning so that we can help you make your day the best it can be! See you tomorrow.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR A LIMITED TIME, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 80% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: LABORDAY

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

About our theme song:

Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100647

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

With school back in full swing, so is the parent's eternal search for the best consequence for managing the problems they are having with their child. Whether it is homework hassles, school behavior reports, or poor grades, parents are constantly looking for the best way to "motivate" their child into compliance.

Unfortunately, this often leads to parents using the easy and somewhat thoughtless punishment of cell phone removal. That is, no matter the infraction, parents take away the one thing that they know will affect their child -- their phone. In this podcast, Dr. Berney and Dr. Richard discuss why this is not an effective punishment and the possible unintended consequences.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR A LIMITED TIME, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 80% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: LABORDAY

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

One of my main professional and personal goals is to help people improve their lives and meet their goals. To meet our goals and improve our life, we need to make changes. Unfortunately, we often respond to the idea of change with a dangerous and limiting word -- Can't. 

We tell ourselves that we can't change this part of our life, or that we can't accomplish this goal. And when we tell ourselves that we can't, we tend to use that as a rationale, an excuse, to stop or not even try. In this podcast, Dr. Berney talks about what we may really mean when we say we "can't" do something and how to battle that obstacle to change.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR A LIMITED TIME, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 80% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: LABORDAY

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

Recently, a listener wrote in and asked:

My son is 11 years old and is diagnosed and treated for ADHD. While he did very well in elementary school, now that he is in middle school, he is having a hard time getting to sleep. We will make him go to bed at his usual time of 9:00, but he will still be awake at 11 or even midnight sometimes. What could be causing this problem?

In this podcast, Dr. Berney responds to this listener question and talks about some of the reasons why children may have difficulty sleeping.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR A LIMITE TIME, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 80% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: LABORDAY

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

We have often said that our primary job as parents is to raise happy, healthy, and self-sufficient children. However, to do that, there are a particular set of skills that a child MUST develop prior to becoming an adult. These skills include:

Empathy

Compassion

Managing Loss/Disappointment

Delayed Gratification

Self-Sufficiency

Initiative

Self-Regulation

The Value of Quiet

Perseverance

Acceptance of Mistakes

In this podcast, Dr. Berney and Dr. Richard review these 10 critical aspects of raising emotionally healthy children who will develop into happy, independent adults.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2016, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 50% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: PYAC50

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

Sugar has become a major component of our daily diet. Research suggests that children and adolescents consume - on average - 80 grams of added sugar per day! The American Heart Association recently published a scientific statement regarding the risk for cardiovascular disease in children who consume added sugar. 

In this podcast, Dr. Berney reviews the AHD statement and discusses the importance of decreasing our children's sugar intake.

Added Sugars and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children Published early, online, on August 22, 2016 http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2016/08/22/CIR.0000000000000439

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2016, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 50% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: PYAC50

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

On August 25, 2016, Dr. Berney had the opportunity to sit on a discussion panel following an exclusive presentation of the new documentary, Generation Found. The topic of the evening was adolescent substance abuse.

The forum panel consisted of a variety of professionals working in the field of substance abuse and recovery. In this podcast, Dr. Berney talks a little about the documentary and some of the "take home messages" from the evening.

Greg Williams - Filmmaker - http://generationfoundfilm.com

Lisa Brandy - Brandi's Wish Foundation  http://www.brandiswish.org

Lena Wooten - Clinical Director of Next Generation Village https://www.nextgenerationvillage.com

Dan Renaub - Executive Director of Florida Recovery Schools http://www.recoveryhighschool.org

Allison Walsh - VP of Business Development at Advanced Recovery Systems https://www.advancedrecoverysystems.com

Luis Delgado - Treatment provider, consultant, and radio host http://www.thedopedoctor.com

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2016, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 50% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: PYAC50

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

As parents, we often feel as though we are in complete control of our children. We make all of the decisions, including what they will and will not do. However, there are times when our children want to do things that will push our comfort zones, things that we may feel are dangerous or cause us anxiety. 

In this podcast, Dr. Berney discusses strategies for managing situations where our children want to do things that we may not be completely comfortable with.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2016, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 50% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: PYAC50

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!

We talk a lot about goals and motivation and for many of us, that seems like a no brainer. Of course setting goals is important. But what if you cannot find anything to work toward? What if you can’t identify a goal, something to work toward?

In this podcast, Dr. Berney offers a few strategies for those who find themselves in need of a goal.

The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now loaded. Check it out at Paedeiallc.com! FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2016, YOU CAN GET THE COURSE FOR 50% OFF WITH THE OFFER CODE: PYAC50

The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today!

The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today!

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown.

Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

NEW!! The Mental Breakdown Podcast is now on Google Play Music!