Mentally STRONG Academy: Embrace the Journey
About Dr. B
Dr. Cristi Bundukamara, Ed.D., PMHNP has been a psychiatric nurse practitioner since 2000, gaining extensive experience over the last several decades. Her medical career began as an Army Medic before attending nursing school and receiving a master’s degree as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at Florida International University (FIU). She went on to receive a doctorate in Education at Nova Southeastern University. From there, she launched the first Mentally STRONG Clinic in Colorado Springs, CO which is committed to access and serves over 7,000 patients. She also founded the Mentally STRONG Academy. Today, when she’s not at the clinic attending to her patients, Dr. B dedicates a large portion of her time to speaking about mental health issues, sharing methods for processing grief, and providing tips for developing mental strength.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 256
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
SOCIAL ANXIETY: Demystifying the DSM - Mentally STRONG with Dr. B
Do you think you have social anxiety? Does one of your best friends or someone you really care about have lots of anxiety or anticipation about going out into social settings? Listen to this video. A…
PHOBIAS - Demystifying the DSM: Specific Phobias - 2022 - Systematic Desensitization
Do you or someone you know have a very specific phobia that isn't related to another diagnosis such as PTSD? Watch this video!
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Dr. B here with our series on demystifying the DSM and today, we're goin…
SELECTIVE MUTISM: Demystifying the DSM
SELECTIVE MUTISM – Are you wondering whether your child is showing signs of Selective Mutism? Dr. B discusses the diagnosis in the DSM-V. See below for a transcript of the video:
Dr. B here with our s…
Demystifying the DSM: Separation Anxiety
Dr. B here with our series on demystifying the DSM and we're going into anxiety disorders, which is a huge bucket or cluster of symptoms. Oftentimes, I'll be saying, we really need to be assessing an…
Demystifying the DSM: Depressive Disorders (Depressed Mood)
Dr. B here with Demystifying the DSM and this video is specifically on that cluster of other depressive disorders which I'm going to include, for all of us who experience depression. What can we do a…
Demystifying the DSM: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Dr. B here with our series on Demystifying the DSM and today I'm talking about PMDD, and if there's men listening, this is a real disorder, and it should be treated. Oftentimes many, many women exper…
Demystifying the DSM: Dysthymia (Persistent Depressive Disorder)
Dr. B here with our series on Demystifying the DSM. So, the next depressive disorder in the series is called persistent depressive disorder or dysthymia. In the clinic environment we often don't see …
Demystifying the DSM: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
Dr. B here with our series on Demystifying the DSM. Today I'm going to talk about Major Depressive Disorder and it's kind of ironic to only be doing a 5-minute video on what is the most prevalent dia…
Demystifying the DSM: Unspecified Bipolar & Other Types
Dr. B here, with our series on Demystifying the DSM. Now I'm going to sum up the other bipolar type of diagnosis. I don't personally study the DSM, and so it's kind of funny that I'm doing this Demys…
Demystifying the DSM: Bipolar II
Dr. B here with our series on demystifying the DSM and today I'm going to be talking about Bipolar 2 which is significantly harder to diagnose and I'm very cautious and conservative in giving this di…
Demystifying the DSM: Bipolar I
Dr. B here with our series on demystifying the DSM. Today I'm going to be talking about Bipolar I. This is the most severe type of bipolar. Although the DSM clearly distinguishes bipolar 1, bipolar 2…
Demystifying the DSM: Unspecified Psychosis
Hi! Dr. B here demystifying the DSM and finishing up the psychotic disorders. So, we've been going over all the different psychotic disorders and the last you know 7 disorders here in this cluster ar…
Demystifying the DSM: Schizoaffective Disorder
Dr. B here in our series demystifying the DSM and we are on psychotic disorders. Today I'm going to be talking about schizoaffective disorder, so if you came across this just in like a search for sch…
Demystifying the DSM: Schizophrenia
Dr. B here Demystifying the DSM and we are in the series on psychotic disorders. I don't want to lose some of my followers. Psychotic disorders are our least common diagnosed mental health concern. H…
Demystifying the DSM: Brief Psychotic Disorder & Schizophreniform
Dr. B here with demystifying the DSM and we're in the series on psychotic disorders and I'm going to clump the next two together. Brief psychotic disorder and schizophreniform. So, brief psychotic di…
Demystifying the DSM: Psychotic Disorders - Delusional Disorder
Dr. B here with our series on demystifying the DSM. The next six videos will be specifically on psychotic disorders, so that's the second cluster in the DSM and I'm just going to go in order, not in …
Demystifying the DSM: Adult ADD & ADHD
Dr. B here doing our demystifying the DSM of neurodevelopmental disorders and I'm ending with adult ADD ADHD. Confession, I have ADD but I also choose not to treat it with medications, so I'm going t…
Demystifying the DSM: ADHD in Children
Dr. B here and we are demystifying the DSM and we are going through neurodevelopmental disorders and today I'm going to talk about ADHD which is the most commonly diagnosed in children. It's very imp…
Demystifying the DSM: Autism
Alright Dr. B here with demystifying the DSM and we are in the neurodevelopmental chapter of the DSM and I would like to talk about autism today. Unfortunately, this is a diagnosis that we are contin…
Demystifying the DSM: Neurodevelopmental Disorders Intellectual Disability
Dr. B here starting my series on demystifying the DSM. So, the DSM is a book that we use to diagnose mental health conditions and there are several versions.
We're on version 5 right now. It changes …