For something so common, anxiety is still massively misunderstood. There are myths and misconceptions about everything from what anxiety disorders look and feel like to what actually helps to treat these illnesses and navigate anxiety. Which is why we asked several anxiety experts to clear things up. Below, you’ll find
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger November 27, 2018
Therapist: “You say you want a relationship with your mother. Well, you’ve got one, but it’s destructive. You cannot begin a constructive relationship with her until you put an end to this negative one. It sounds like you are feeling helpless and discouraged. I’m willing to guess she expects you
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger November 23, 2018
Normally, things run smooth and our emotions and thoughts work in harmony towards a common goal. However under situations of stress, unresolved anger, private sorrow, or paralyzing fear may flood our thoughts. We can make efforts to solve the mystery of where the intensity of our emotions comes from by getting
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger November 16, 2018
Bipolar II disorder is a less severe version of bipolar I disorder. That’s likely an assumption you’ve already come across. Maybe you read it in an article. Maybe you heard it from someone else, maybe even a mental health professional. Author Julie Kraft has heard bipolar II called “bipolar light”
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger November 10, 2018
A majority of Americans say rudeness — particularly behind the wheel, on cell phones and in customer service — is the biggest trigger to their anger. Here is where we need to use anger management to counterbalance the hostile, impulsive, infantile insistence on getting what we want, when we want it.
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger November 10, 2018
For the first three decades of Julie Kraft’s life, every day was a struggle. “From the minute I woke up to the moment my head hit the pillow each night, my mind would spin with worries and fears—most of them irrational—about the past, present and the future,” Kraft said. “I
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger November 7, 2018
Below are four ways Trump’s presidency has evoked a sense of powerlessness: 1) Marginalization – when an individual or group minimizes or disavows the legitimacy, rights or privileges of others who are believed to be somehow different from the mainstream. 2) Internalizing external reality- themes of loss related to reduced
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger November 4, 2018
Therapist: “Do you want to learn more about yourself as a person?” Client: “I guess, but I probably won’t like it.” Therapist: “I didn’t say you had to like it. But, if you do it right, it only hurts for a little while. One thing I’d like you to do
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger November 4, 2018
This is what most people think obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) looks like: washing your hands excessively because you’re a germaphobe. Sometimes, people think it’s also needing to have a neat, orderly home, and checking to see if you locked the door way too many times. And while some of this is
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger November 2, 2018
There’s a prevailing belief that exploring your past in therapy is pointless. A complete waste of time. After all, talking about past circumstances doesn’t change them. It’s also self-indulgent and narcissistic, right? And it takes too darn long. You can talk about your childhood for years and not get anywhere.
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger October 31, 2018
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