Dina Baldwin Berdy, LMSW LLC

12/03/2022

12/03/2022

https://neurosciencenews.com/hikikomori-isolation-detection-21969/?fbclid=IwAR3PltrvvbQk99HF2fHAgVCQ7bcNUR9zq-erQdMby67GWSYHrZ0wOZjUQ-4&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Hikikomori is a complex condition where a person withdraws from society and remains isolated at home for more than six months. The condition is becoming more prevalent in Western societies. Researchers have developed a new method designed to help detect hikikomori at an earlier stage and provide tre...

11/30/2022

Current availability for in person and telehealth!

Psychodynamic and Behavioral oriented mental health therapy in Huntington Woods, MI offering Telehealth and in person appointments. Paperwork can be filled out online. Online payments are accepted. We accept BCBS, Priority, Beacon, private pay, and a few out of network. Schedule an appointment today...

10/29/2022

The cardigans

09/12/2022

New legislation could help bring awareness and resources to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

05/23/2021

For those of you who still haven’t heard of EMDR or are skeptics or are curious, I was trained over a year ago and have had success in my practice with it. I’m not at all surprised to see this endorsement.

EMDR has been used for decades, but is becoming an increasingly popular and sought-after treatment to deal with traumatic or adverse life experiences.

03/14/2021

Plan 1:1 play time, talk time, hang time with your kid or teen. Be generous with love and compliments. Share a lot of yourself. Minimize questions. Minimize discussion of expectations.

Love bombing between adults? Not good. Think: an onslaught of romantic gestures that comes off as all lovey-dovey but is really just a tactic to gain power. In other words, it’s a behavior that’s typically...

05/14/2020

Why mental health workers need safeguarding and protection more than ever.

05/06/2020

Allostatic Load! Your Sloth like behavior has a name . I told you !

This is why you're exhausted just from being alone.

03/30/2020

Normal human responses to a global pandemic that do not need to be pathologized or treated as abnormal:

• Food and eating challenges & difficulties

• Resurgence of compulsive or addictive behaviours

• Obsessive or instrusive thoughts, memories or fears

• Generalised fear, anxiety, panic & overwhelm

• Depression, dissociation, shutdown, freeze, hopelessness

• Feelings of abandonment or loneliness or isolation

• Sense of loss of control or powerlessness. Feeling confused

• Anxiety around money, shelter, food, and other survival needs

• Past traumas being triggered, activated or re-experienced

• Health anxiety heightened (about Covid19 and otherwise)

• Feeling unheard or unseen amidst the flood of stories

• Feeling like existing chronic needs are being ignored

• Thoughts and feelings about death and dying

• New and old grief surfacing

• Feelings of anger, irritation and frustration

• Caring for everyone to own detriment. Compassion fatigue

• Feeling exhausted, fatigued, unmotivated, lethargic

• Hyper-focus, surges of energy, keeping 'doing' to distract

• Immune system depleted, other illnesses starting, chronic flares

(list not exhaustive)

AND if you do need support with any of it, that's okay too.

Sarah Mariann Martland

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03/18/2020

I see this play out later and get misdiagnosed as Borderline Personality Disorder. It’s not.

A new, first of its kind study has found that children who show a behavior called insecure-resistant attachment as a baby and who have an older sibling with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to be diagnosed with ASD themselves.