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Could Schema Therapy Help Treat Narcissistic Personality?
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), or narcissism, as it’s often called, is one of the cluster B personality disorders, or emotional/impulsive personality disorders. Narcissism is ... Read More
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4 Things Single Women Wish You’d Talk About in Therapy
In my practice, I have worked with my fair share of single women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. Most of these women express a desire to be in a long-term relationship and eventually married. ... Read More
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A Couple’s Guide to Coping with Infertility
If you and your partner have been trying to get pregnant for a year or longer but haven’t yet conceived, it’s possible you are facing fertility issues. You might already have started ... Read More
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5 Myths and Facts About Drug Rehab
Drug abuse is a serious health concern. Overdose-related deaths in the United States have reached epidemic level. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate ... Read More
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Fight Social Anxiety by Embracing Your Inner Fool
When I was in seventh grade, my family relocated to the United States after having lived in Europe for several years. Before we moved, my mother took me shopping for new school clothes. On ... Read More
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How to Stop Nagging and Get Children to Listen the First Time
Parenthood can feel like little more than endless nagging. Clean up your toys. Do your homework. No, don’t do that. No, you still can’t do that. Trying to get kids to listen can be ... Read More
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How to Own Your Power: Using Influence Consciously
I want to say a sentence, a prompt, to you. It will be a positive sentence. Your task is just to notice and reflect on what your internal response is. “It’s okay to own your power.” There ... Read More
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Surviving a Relationship Injury: Forgive But Don’t Forget
In attachment-based counseling, we talk a lot about relationship and attachment injuries. Those of us who practice emotionally-focused therapies have our own lingo that the layperson may ... Read More
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Drug Addiction Among Senior Citizens: A Growing Crisis
Drug addiction and abuse among seniors has risen steadily over the last decade. This is partially because Baby Boomers have always had comparatively high rates of substance use and abuse. ... Read More
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How Trauma and Dissociation Disrupt Your Ability to Form Memories
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” Haruki Murakami We all know from popular drama (TV shows, movies, etc.) that traumatic events are often forgotten ... Read More
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4 Signs Busyness Is Your Coping Mechanism and How to Slow Down
Busyness may seem fairly harmless; after all, you are just filling your schedule and accomplishing tasks, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that. However, busyness can take over ... Read More
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Nutrition for Anxiety: Foods to Eat and Avoid
Nutrition is fuel for your body. Choose the right fuel and your body, including your mind, may function better. Research on the role of nutrition in fighting anxiety is mixed, but studies ... Read More
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GoodTherapy Participates in AFSP’s 2018 Out of the Darkness Walk
In observance of National Suicide Prevention Month, GoodTherapy team members participated in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) ... Read More
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9 Out of 10 Caregivers for People with Dementia Get Inadequate Sleep
Alzheimer’s disease is a serious problem in the United States. According to the Alzheimer’s Association: Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause ... Read More
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Study: Many Youth Seeking Therapy Want to Discuss Spirituality
Regular attendance of religious services has declined with time, according to data from Gallup. Yet many Americans still say spirituality is an important ... Read More
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Bored With Everything? Study Suggests Method for Regaining Pleasure
Boredom with life is a common complaint in therapy. That shiny new car is often less interesting a year later. Conversations with a once-exciting partner ... Read More
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Study: Monogamous and Nonmonogamous Relationships Equally Happy
Consensual nonmonogamy (CNM) relationship styles may be increasing in popularity. Nonmonogamy describes when someone has more than one romantic partner ... Read More
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How Do I Deal with Loneliness?
My life is a sad state of affairs. I have no real friends to speak of, just my cat Lula. Even she doesn't like me very much. I can't work because ... Read More
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What's the Best Way to Break Up?
I have been with my boyfriend for over a year now and I don't see a future together. It was fun for a while, but now it feels stale and unexciting. ... Read More
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Help! I Think I'm Addicted to Video Games
I work. I eat and drink. I play video games. I sleep. Then I repeat. Every. Single. Day. Three of these things are necessities, but the ... Read More
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Help! My Therapist Ended Her Practice and I Don't Know What to Do
I had been seeing my therapist for 28 years. Around March, she was unwell. This was a rare occurrence in our time together. But her viral infection ... Read More
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Help! I Have No One to Talk To
Ever since my dad died last year, I have had no one to talk to. And really, I had no one to talk to for the last three years of his life, ravaged ... Read More