Articles on Depression and Anxiety from Dr. Scott

Fourteen honest mental health lessons about motivation, avoidance, boundaries, habits, and resilience that can help you build a steadier 2026.

Happiness can disappear quickly when your emotional system struggles to hold onto positive feelings. Learn how understanding your emotional operating system can help you build more lasting satisfaction through daily enjoyment, meaningful hobbies, physical comfort, supportive environments, personal values, and small sources of positive emotion that continue giving something back.

When anxiety, depression, panic, or trauma overwhelms your nervous system, one coping skill may not feel like enough. Explore 12 practical nervous system regulation tools, including breathing, grounding, movement, sensory techniques, and skillful distraction, plus how stacking and chaining coping skills can help your body and mind gradually settle.