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Make Time for the Pain
When someone comes into therapy essentially requesting a major mental and emotional overhaul, I typically warn them that we’ll be doing a lot of grief work. That is, if we’re to accomplish a major...
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Childhood Trauma and Masturbation
Masturbation is a funny word. It might make you giggle thinking about the first time you got caught by your parents or caught your little brother in the act. It can be a great way to release tension,...
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Five Ways to Get Your Emotions under Control
Emotions are a vital part of our everyday lives. Whether you’re having a good laugh over a funny text message or feeling frustrated while stuck in rush hour traffic, you know that the highs and lows...
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Is a Broken Heart Like a Broken Leg?
dreamstime.comChances are you’ve come in contact with the mental health system. Maybe you’ve had a good experience. Maybe you haven’t. Either way, chances are you were given a diagnosis and encouraged...
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Deadly Rescue
Oscar-contender “American Sniper” is breaking box office records. What’s the secret? At an unsettled moment in the nation’s history, the movie shows us a hero based on Chris Kyle, an actual sniper...
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The Silver Lining Around Fearful Living
We are so intimately connected to the world we live in. Not just with what is immediately around us, but also with what is happening on the other side of the globe. We can instantly communicate with...
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Deciding to Leave a Relationship
Whether it’s a family, friend, romantic, or work relationship,the people in your life can either add to your happiness or increase your misery. Relationships can help you live your best life or hold...
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Anxious Parents Helped by “World’s Worst Mom”
Lenore Skenazy was called the world’s worst mom when she let her 9-year-old son figure out how to get home on New York subway alone. After the swarm of criticism she wrote a book, Free-Range Kids: How...
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The Blind Man, the Elephant, and Love: 11 Romantic Myths
http://www.freeimages.com/photo/1173221These are some of my favorite things: the color blue, strawberries, and love. But what exactly is romantic love? Depends on who you ask.Most of us are pretty sure...
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Does Disappointing Others Making You Want To Give Up?
There are many things that can make someone choose to no longer want to even try to date. One of the reasons some withdrawl from the dating scene, is they have become just sick and tired of...
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Study: “Movie Therapy” for Couples Halves Divorce Rate
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in "Gone with the Wind"CC0 Public domain/No attribution requiredRelationship problems are common.1 In fact relationship difficulties are one of the major reasons that...
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Caught Off-Guard by Breast Cancer: First Impressions
"Woman in Green" by William Glackens (1915)November of last year found me living as best I could with several health issues, the most debilitating of which stems from never having recovered from a...
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12 Steps to Beat the Post-Valentine's Divorce Odds
Valentine's Day is this weekend, and spring is around the corner. Leo Tolstoy once said, "Spring is the time of plans and projects." According to FindLaw.com, the month of March coiincides not only...
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Should You Give Advice?
PIxabay, Public DomainA tenet of counseling—whether therapist to client, doctor to patient, or even friend-to-friend—is that it’s better to not give advice, especially if not asked for. Better to...
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What Assessment Can Do and What It Can’t
The psychiatrist in a murder trial testified that the defendant’s increase in infrequent responding over the course of an MMPI administration meant that his (the defendant’s) will was overridden over...
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Treatments that work well for most don't work well for all. And even effective treatments have side effects and complications. This is true of medication and surgery—and it is also true of...
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The Missing Link Between Psychology and Biology
The distinction between mind and body was unfortunately made centuries ago and remains with us today. We label illnesses caused by germs or viruses as "physical." We label other illnesses such as...
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Toxic Relationships: 50 Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship
My all-time most popular post on PT is about 50 signs of a healthy relationship.Today, we cover the flipside - warning signs of a toxic relationship. While many relationships may display one or two of...
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Through a Distant Lens
Becoming aware of how other societies define mental illness gives us insight on how our own cultural perceptions shape our own views.For example, our culture defines psychosis as a distinct illness...
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Dogs Can't Cure Cancer!
https://spcala.com/media/aat1.jpg“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Carl Sagan...
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