Anxiety, Authenticity, Buddhist Psychology, Career, Depression, Featured Post, Find A Therapist, Masculinity, Mindfulness, Mindset, Perfectionism, Self-Image, Social Anxiety, Therapies
Burnout is real. The problem is what happens when the word becomes too easy to use. Dr. Michael Brustein, PsyD Clinical Psychologist, NYC 5 min read Burnout has fallen in with a bad crowd. Narcissism, gaslighting, OCD — words that once had a more specific meaning and...
Anxiety, Authenticity, Buddhist Psychology, Career, Depression, Featured Post, Find A Therapist, Masculinity, Mindfulness, Mindset, Perfectionism, Relationships, Self-Image, Social Anxiety, Therapies
Social Anxiety and the Fear of Being Seen In many careers, the ability to speak in front of others—confidently, fluently, as though you belong there—is the difference between visibility and invisibility. You don’t get promoted for thinking well in silence. You...
Anxiety, Authenticity, Mindset, Perfectionism, Self-Image
Our fitness routines might be the most honest stories we tell about ourselves. At first, it seems like a joke headline, or a BuzzFeed quiz: “What your gym routine says about your personality.” But then you notice the spin class filling up at 6:00 a.m.—the same...
Authenticity, Mindfulness, Self-Image
From Building a Self to Letting It Go On the strange necessity of self‑absorption—and the even stranger art of releasing what we’ve built. A Dinner‑Party Glimpse Last week, at a small dinner party, I watched a man in his forties narrate—with boyish enthusiasm—his...
Depression, Perfectionism
On almost every block in New York City you will find either a bank, Duane Read or Starbucks. If you look close enough you will also find a psychotherapist. In the popular 10003 zip code on Psychology Today there are over 500 plus psychotherapists or psychologists...
