Bipolar disorder is a difficult illness. For Arden Tucker, an episode of depression can be especially debilitating. Like many who experience bipolar disorder, Tucker fears she won’t recapture the essence of who she really is, the person she was before the depression began. “My bipolar depression can feel insidious,” she
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger September 8, 2018
If you love what you do, it’s all-too easy for it to consume your identity—especially if your career is demanding and fast-paced. You find yourself checking email after hours, and thinking about work. All. The. Time. You find yourself falling asleep with a laptop in your bed. It’s also all-too
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger August 29, 2018
Parenting involves a lot of minutiae, and from sunup to sundown, the days can feel crammed. And amid all the details—changing diapers, potty-training, making meals, driving everywhere, helping with homework, doing bedtime—what can get lost is the bigger picture. Even if your kids are older and don’t need as much
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger August 25, 2018
The feeling of alienation is a very painful one. People in pain want to relieve their discomfort. The trouble is that they are not qualified to diagnose the origins of their pain nor to prescribe an appropriate course of treatment. This is not a DIY situation. They will misdiagnose the
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 21, 2018
For as long as America has been a country, men have been king of the hill. However, many men have had difficulty adjusting to relatively recent societal shifts from the increasingly powerful role of women in the workplace to the acceptance of same-sex relationships. With globalization, automation, the decline of
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 21, 2018
Demeaning women is caused by patriarchy. In a patriarchal structure, men are supposed to be the bread winners (which is seen as more important) and women are supposed to take care of children (which is seen as less-important). To promote gender equality, parents need to deconstruct the propagation of patriarchy.
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 21, 2018
Anger is a healthy emotion in everybody’s life — when it’s expressed in an appropriate manner at the right time. Anger can help to energize and motivate us to work to address problems with another person or to change our life situation. However, there are potential negative consequences of anger when
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 21, 2018
If we have committed a crime, then it makes sense to feel guilty. Many of the rest of us wallow in guilt that we have not earned and do not deserve. Guilt is the perception that we have done something morally, legally, or ethically wrong. Many of us perceive ourselves
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 21, 2018
“For me, it didn’t feel like mom was really dying, until I saw her dead.” ”I felt her hand. I touched her face. She had been dead for a few hours.” Guest blogger, Laura Brownstone, LCSW has been a grief therapist for over 15 years. Her mother passed over seven years
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 21, 2018
Clare had a big fight with her boyfriend Tom. She wanted him to come to dinner with her passive aggressive, dysfunctional family. Tom, understandably, did not wish to subject himself to this torment. Tom’s own family was critical and demanding. He had few happy memories of his family growing up.
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 21, 2018
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