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7 Ways To Tell The Difference Between Sadness and Depression

…offee date might help you overcome the sadness and loneliness that you are experiencing, and slowly but surely you will begin to enjoy things again. An important article from Psychology Today explains the condition of anhedonia, the complete loss of interest in activities that you once found enjoyable along with the inability to sustain feelings of pleasure derived from such activities. Anhedonia is a major red flag for depression – if you are suf…

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What Drives Our Loneliness?

…45 suffer from chronic loneliness. According to the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, “the most broadly accepted definition of loneliness is the distress that results from discrepancies between ideal and perceived social relationships.” The key word here is “perceived.” Loneliness is not the same as being alone. Individuals can feel isolated or outcast in even the most social-seeming of circumstances. Alarmingly, one study in the United Kingdo…

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Helping Clients Develop Secure Attachment: Online Workshop

…om their earliest attachments that unconsciously direct their lives. Early relationships help shape a person’s adult romantic relationships, how they will parent, and how they’re likely to do in psychotherapy. Attachment research shows that when people fail to make sense of their past, they find themselves reliving and recreating it, essentially re-experiencing old hurts over and over again. This research also demonstrates that making sense of the…

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Suicide Prevention – 10 Questions and Answers

…what to make of the answer, or the person is resisting help? If you are in relationship with someone and you are fearful they might hurt themselves, tell them so. You can say, “I am worried about you.” “I care about you.” “I am scared you may be thinking of hurting yourself because…” Tell your loved one why you are worried. Listen. Offer to help them get support. Remind them they are not alone, you care! Call a therapist as soon as possible. You w…

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How Emotions Guide Our Lives

…han IQ, showing that it “predicts over 54% of the variation in success” in relationships, health, and quality of life. Our emotions can offer us clues into who we are as well as how we’ve been affected by our history. Many of our actions are initiated by emotion, which leads to the natural question of what emotions are being surfaced and why. Which of these emotions are adaptive and maladaptive? Which may be triggered by the present but rooted in…

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An Introduction to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and What You Can Do About It

…ffected by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Unfortunately, many people experiencing symptoms are not even aware that OCD exists or that treatment is available. When a person does seek help, a lack of OCD training for health professionals can lead to the wrong diagnosis. OCD is described by the International OCD Foundation as a disorder in which people become stuck in a cycle of obsessions, “unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images or urges that tr…

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3 Simple Ways to Sustainable Happiness

…gs for themselves such as exercising, laughing with a group of friends, or experiencing an accomplishment, practice being supportive to them in your mind. Say things like, “good for you for taking care of yourself” or “glad you’re having a moment of joy.” Smile in your mind at them or just say, “Yes!” Oh and one last thing…what’s going to make this all sustainable? Finding other people out there who want this for themselves and creating more conne…

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Voice Therapy

…icide and violence potential and determining clients’ prognoses. Lastly, it has been demonstrated to yield significant therapeutic progress in clients suffering from a variety of psychological maladies. In my next blog I will discuss the fantasy bond in couple relationships. References Cozolino, L. (2006). The neuroscience of human relationships: Attachment and the developing social brain. New York: W. W. Norton. Greenberg, L. S., Rice, L. N., & E…

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Panic Attacks: What You Need to Know

…freedom, peace, and wellbeing. I am even more excited when someone who is experiencing panic attacks reaches out to me for help, because most of the people who have walked into my office with panic attacks don’t have additional attacks once they walk out. For the people who continue to have a few more attacks, these decrease in frequency as the therapy progresses and ultimately stop. I cannot overstate how gratifying it is to provide the informat…

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5 Truths about Anxiety to Help You Stay Present

…e present. It may seem like our stress about work or our worries about our relationship are entirely based on current conditions, but the ways we experience, react, feel, and torture ourselves in these scenarios are often reflections of old, unresolved feelings that have been stirred. Anxiety can be fueled by the critical inner voice. A lot of the noise that pushes us into the past and future comes from our critical inner voice, a self-destructive…

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