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DR. JANTZ BLOG
How to De-Stress Your Routine When it Turns Toxic
After the hiatus of summer, fall is oftentimes synonymous with routine. The kids are back in school. Work settles back in. Weekly activities find...
How to Help Someone Suffering from PTSD
Traumatic events happen every day, and can hit unfortunately close to home. Each day people are faced with sudden deaths of loved ones, natural...
The Physical Effects of Anxiety
Long-term, chronic stress leaches health out of your body. What is protective in the short term is toxic in the long term. Anxiety can...
Self-Medicating Anxiety Through Anger
Rarely do people just feel anxious. Most often, their anxiety is coupled with other addictions or issues that are either related or coping mechanisms...
Are You Depressed?
How do you know if you're depressed? When does sadness become depression? How many "bad days" can a person have in a row and...
Finding Recovery Strength through God
Recovery form an eating disorder or disordered eating—reconstruction—is an “inside-out” job. And the job is not complete until you have cleaned out emotionally, physically,...
Overcoming Panic Attacks
It all started with an elevator. Janice was taking the elevator up to her usual floor at work one day when the elevator malfunctioned....
Do Multitaskers Have ADD?
I often hear people bragging about being great “multitaskers.” However, for many of these so-called “multitaskers,” multitasking isn't about doing multiple things at once;...
Rebuilding the Body’s Digestion System After an Eating Disorder
Eating disorders can wreak havoc on all aspects of a person’s life: their mental wellness, emotional balance, relationships with the people around them, and...
Eating Disorders: The Elusive High of Control
From the moment you’re born, you are immersed in situations that are beyond your control. Best-case scenario, those who do have control of the...
Detour of Denial: Accepting Pain of Past Key to Eating Disorder Treatment
When someone seeks treatment for an eating disorder, they want help addressing the immediate issue at hand — their anorexic, bulimic, or compulsive overeating...