Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the Human Baton online competition which starts very soon! Make sure you join up! With many people returning to their workplace, for some the stress can result in bouts with afib. Dr. Lannon offers some ways to manage it. And we ask if you are empathetic. Or are you more sympathetic? Do you know the difference and do you know how diminished empathy can affect your mental health?  

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the struggles of 23-year-old Naomi Oska and her recent withdrawal from the French Open as a result of anxiety about dealing with the press. Dr. Lannon outlines the stigma of people wrestling with anxiety, especially women, and she lays out ways of approaching these problems. That leads to a discussion about the varying pressures faced by young athletes. 

We had some technical issues to start the show, but Dr. Kim Lannon rewrote the show's story and we had a great discussion about re-writing the narratives of our lives. Once a storyline in our lives is written we often feel we are stuck in that plot even if it's not serving us, it's making us unhappy, or it's harming us. Man of us think that our story is written by others, but realizing that that's not true is empowering. Find out how.

As restrictions lesson around Covid and we face more and more socialization, interaction, and more time outside of the house, many of us will be dealing with new stressors, higher anxiety levels, and a pandemic of threats to our mental health. Adolescents may struggle more, addictions may be aggravated, and families will be stressed. Here in the middle of Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the new (and/or returning) challenges of the post-COVID world and tells us how to recognize them and deal with them.

Dr. Kim Lannon hosts a mailbag episode that answers some of the questions that were generated by earlier episodes. It begins with a discussion of better ways to handle hypothyroidism, which leads to a discussion of how, in cats, hyperthyroidism is treated with radioactivity. But much of this edition deals with anxiety. We all have anxiety, it's part of the human condition, but how do we know when our anxiety level becomes a problem? And then what do we do about it?

It's time for spring cleanings and they can have mental health benefits you may not realize. Often household clutter is a symptom of stressors (you know the kind that long-term pandemics can generate, for instance) and your resulting mental outlook. Fortunately decluttering could be an easy way to relieve some of these stressors and certainly, it can lessen the impact of an accumulation of stressors you may be wrestling with. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the in and outs of spring cleaning and how to make it a plus for your state of mind.  

Dr. Kim Lannon tells us that anxiety is not always 100% psychologically based. There may be a physiological basis for your anxiety or (weight battles) or it's even possible that your anxiety (and/or weight battles) have triggered some physiological problems. She starts with your thyroid and hypothyroidism.

Sleep continues to be one of the most underrated components of your mental health picture. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the mechanics and benefits of good sleep and gives some helpful hints about how to improve your sleep and why the usual sleep "remedies" often aren't really helpful.

Dr. Kim Lannon of Gameface Sports Consulting talks about the roots, causes, and contributors to ADD and ADHD and some of the ways to tame these challenges, including lifestyle, psychotherapeutic, and pharmaceutical responses. An important episode, especially for the parents of challenged kids.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about dealing with a negative mindset, something almost all of us deal with to at least some degree whether we are just stressed a little by certain people or circumstances or we see a big hungry bear in the back of every cave in our lives. Dealing with a negative mindset and the anxiety it produces is a matter of awareness of what makes us feel that way and why. That, in turn, allows us to see if our negative thoughts are reasonable and rational, or even if they are real.