The Minute Therapist

Self-Esteem

Avoiding the Social Comparison Trap

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on May 14, 2024

Things just are, but what you make of them determines your emotional reactions.

Fantasies

Do You Believe in Personal Myths?

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on March 19, 2024

Find out if you are a myth-maker, creating personal fictions based on faith rather than fact.

Depression

On the Toxicity of Negative Beliefs

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on February 27, 2024

Have your thoughts become toxic to your emotional health?

Anxiety

5 Tips for Applying the Rule of Opposites

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on January 4, 2024

Ready to shake things up by trying the opposite?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

A Psychologist’s Take on Escaping From Plato’s Cave

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on November 8, 2023

Are you a prisoner of "Plato's Cave"? Would you like to break free? Why does Plato's cave still matter, some 2,400 years later?

Positive Psychology

What’s Wrong With Positive Thinking?

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on September 8, 2023

Take a cue from negative emotions rather than turning away from them.

Self-Talk

Self-Talk: How You Do It Matters a Lot

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on July 19, 2023

What you say to yourself under your breath matters. It can shape how you feel and determine the quality of your life.

Cognition

The Columbus Fallacy

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on May 8, 2023

Hint: It has nothing to do with where he landed.

Anxiety

Why It's Good Enough to Just Be Good Enough

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on April 12, 2023

It's okay to just be okay.

Depression

How Thinking Differently Can Help You Feel Differently

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on March 7, 2023

When depressed, we may think that things seem dark and dreary because that’s how they truly are, not that our perceptions have distorted our view. How can we counter this tendency?

Personality

Why Cary Grant Wasn't Really Cary Grant

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on February 17, 2023

Writing a new personality script for yourself can reveal parts of yourself you never knew existed.

Cognition

Negative Thoughts Are Made of Fairy Dust

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on January 23, 2023

Take a moment to check in with yourself to catch troubling thoughts when they bounce around in your head. Don’t just let them linger unexamined.

Happiness

Want to Be Happy? Don't Try

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on December 19, 2022

Let it find you.

Self-Esteem

What We All Want and Need but Can't Control

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on November 9, 2022

Are you a people pleaser? How is that working out? Here's how to ground your self-esteem in things you can control, rather than approval from others.

Addiction

Could You Have an Internet Addiction?

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on October 12, 2022

Has your Internet use become a compulsion? There are steps you can take to alleviate it.

Happiness

How to Make Yourself Miserable on 2 Million Dollars a Year

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on September 28, 2022

When is enough enough?

Self-Talk

Does Your Inner Voice Bring You Down?

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on September 7, 2022

We all talk to ourselves, but the trick is talking sense rather than nonsense.

Happiness

3 Beliefs That Make Us Miserable (and How to Change Them)

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on July 26, 2022

You don’t get to choose what happens to you. But you do get to choose what you make of it.

Relationships

Do You Need Help Rewriting Your Life Script?

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on June 30, 2022

Rewriting your life script can help you break out of self-defeating roles.

Cognition

The ABCs of Emotions

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Ph.D., ABPP on June 16, 2022

Emotions are more complex than you might think.