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How Are You Feeling? Take a Minute to HALT for Your Health
How do you feel right now? Great? Okay? Not so good? If you aren’t feeling your best, taking a moment to HALT is one of the best things you can do for your overall mental and physical ... Read More
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Does OCD Get Worse Before It Gets Better?
Dear GoodTherapy.org, I have bad OCD. Fear of germs, obsessive and anxious thoughts, needing things to always be perfect and orderly—you name the symptom, I’m pretty sure I have it. Before ... Read More
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Conversion Disorder, Complex Trauma, and the Mind-Body Connection
“If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (and the need for the easier explanations such ... Read More
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Top 10 Myths: A Guide to Everything OCD Is Not
“I need to go organize my planner. I’m so OCD.” “I’m obsessed with color-coding my pens and ordering my books by size and color. That’s my inner OCD talking.” OCD, short for ... Read More
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What Mother’s Day Means for Mental Health
The month of May. Tulips and daffodils remind us that spring is a time for growth and change. May is not only Mental Health Awareness Month, it is also the month in which many celebrate ... Read More
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When Mother’s Day Is Hard to Celebrate
Mother’s Day is observed on the second Sunday in May. Greeting card stores and flower shops go to great lengths to remind customers that many people have, or have had, mothers to celebrate. ... Read More
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How Relational Trauma Can Affect the Trust-Building Process
Therapists used to reserve the term “trauma” to describe events like war, rape, and life-threatening experiences. We now recognize that people can have similar responses to relational ... Read More
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Help! My Partner Doesn’t Like to Be Touched
Dear GoodTherapy.org, Have you ever dealt with couples where one partner had issues with being touched? That’s the situation I am in now. I have been seeing a guy for about eight ... Read More
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Common Questions Asked by People Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
I work daily with people who have experienced narcissistic abuse. Some grew up in a household with a narcissistic parent. Others are married to someone with narcissism. Still others may ... Read More
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10 Famous People with Depression
Depression has long been surrounded by stereotype and stigma. Yet the condition is more common than many people realize. One in 10 adults in the United States report having depression. ... Read More
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‘Reviving Ophelia’ and Supporting Our Teens: A GoodTherapy.org Review
In the bestselling book Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Dr. Mary Pipher discusses the negative impact adolescence can have on young women. She observes that before ... Read More
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Workplace Grief and Loss: Coping with the Death of a Coworker
Most of us work for most of our lives. The relationships we develop through our work take up a lot of our time and emotional resources. Even though these are almost universal truths, we ... Read More
