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Understanding Self-Harming Behavior: Healing with Self-Care and Compassion

…ehaviors in Trauma Survivors, a Clinician’s Guide, by Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Articles Got Self-Destructive Behaviors? Try This Instead, (on Lisa Ferentz’s CARESS technique) by Sarah Staggs, LICSW, MPH Related Articles by Robyn E. Brickel, MA, LMFT Healthy Relationships Matter More than We Think Loving a Trauma Survivor: Understanding Childhood Trauma’s Impact On Relationships Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding the Many Challenges of Toxic Str…

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What We Need to Know About OCD

…s, all while trying to balance the regular responsibilities, routines, and relationships your daily life entails? Maybe you do know what this feels like, or you know someone else who does. If that’s the case, you are not alone. Millions of people in the United States (around 1 in 40) are affected by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is the fourth most common mental health disorder, occurring in people of all ages but most commonly showing u…

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How to Find Healing in Relationships After Trauma

…p when I need it. Here are three tips to help you move forward into deeper relationships: 1. Know that having healthy relationships can repair old emotional wounds. Healthy relationships can heal old attachment wounds. (Kelly Clarkson’s song, Piece by Piece, is a current and heartwarming example.) If you grew up without secure attachment or weren’t nurtured, it can become what you expect from others or your relationships as you grow. As I spoke ab…

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…elf and help put a stop to self-limiting patterns in your life.   Focus on Relationships: In many cases, what goes wrong in relationships can be traced to a person’s own psychological adaptations and the habitual ways that they defend themselves. What are these defenses and why do they exist? Where did they originate and how can you overcome them? In posing these questions, most people can uncover long-held negative beliefs and attitudes about the…

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…mental health assistance. No form of reading or self-help can replace the relationship with a therapist or mental health professional. No form of reading or self-help can offer the therapeutic benefits that come from relating to another person in the therapy setting. For information on finding a therapist visit our Get Help page. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS IN CRISIS OR IN NEED OF IMMEDIATE HELP, CALL 1-800-273-TALK (8255). This is a free hotli…

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Teen Suicide Prevention: Concerned Friends and Family

…Be Suicidal If you have a friend who is distressed, depressed or unusually troubled by family problems, bad grades, or recent breakup of a relationship, don’t be afraid to ask if he or she would like to talk with you. Listen with empathy, ask directly about any suicidal thoughts or plans, make an action plan to get your friend to help, to a parent, teacher, or counselor. Most important, if a friend voluntarily confides in you that he or she doesn’…

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Fear of Intimacy

…ing when we consider just how true it can be when it comes to our intimate relationships. Why is it that we treat those we love worse than we treat anyone else? Why is it that even though we say we want love in our lives, when it shows up, we often shun it or somehow inadvertently push it away? Though we may not be entirely aware of it on a conscious level, most of us have a certain amount of fear of intimacy. Where this fear originates is a subje…

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Dr. Sheldon Solomon on Sexuality and Death Awareness: Exclusive Interview

…come more readily to mind. So empirically, you know, we’ve shown that that relationship cuts both ways. That reminding people of death makes certain sexual behaviors less appealing and reminding people of sex as just a crass physical biologically, hormonally driven reproductive act, that makes death come more readily to mind. Alright, but that doesn’t help us understand the other side of it. And Becker’s view and Jamie and we have, in collaboratio…

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Rebuilding Intimacy after Tragedy: How to Help Your Partner Cope

…im or her rebuild the life you shared and reestablish the intimacy in your relationship. Lindsay Larson is a senior at the University of California, Santa Barbara majoring in psychology and minoring in professional business writing. Lindsay is actively involved in research conducted in UCSB’s social relations lab and plans to pursue a Master’s in Public Health. In addition, Lindsay volunteers at the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center where she compl…

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Why We Keep Making the Same Bad Choices

…How often find do we find ourselves choosing the same type of partner or winding up in the same seemingly unworkable relationship? Dr. Lisa Firestone explains some of the reasons we make the choices we do, and how this impacts the dynamics in our relationships. Are we choosing the wrong person, or are we sabotaging our chance to get what we really want?…

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