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Preparing for the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19
Mental health is a growing concern after the stresses and losses of the COVID-19 pandemic. For many, the pandemic feeds stress over health and finances. It can also exacerbate the challenges ... Read More
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – 5 Signs and When to Get Help
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is estimated to impact 3.9 million Americans who have been formally diagnosed with OCD. Individuals who seek proper treatment for this anxiety disorder often ... Read More
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Can Telemental Health Care Help You Manage Anxiety?
If you live with serious or persistent emotional distress related to an anxiety condition, you may have given some thought to how professional support might help you manage your symptoms. ... Read More
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Mental Health Parity: Are We There Yet?
Mental and physical health are inextricably linked, yet healthcare systems have historically treated them as fundamentally different. This plays a key role in mental health stigma, but ... Read More
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Child Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic
About five children die every day in the United States from abuse and neglect, with thousands more experiencing abuse. Many child advocates have predicted that during the current COVID-19 ... Read More
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How Does Online Couples Therapy Work?
Romantic relationships demand a lot: each partner must find a way to support and nurture the other’s needs while identifying and asserting their own needs. When one person in a couple ... Read More
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Birth Trauma and COVID-19
Pregnancy and giving birth can come with a wide range of joys, challenges, and fears. People who are giving birth during the current COVID-19 pandemic are also navigating unexpected circumstances ... Read More
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COVID-19 and Substance Abuse
According to the National Survey of Drug Use and Health, most adults use or have used at least one drug. More than 87% of adults over the age of 26 report using alcohol during their lives, ... Read More
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How Telemental Health Care Can Help You Through COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread, much of the world is under some sort of lockdown or restrictions. In the United States, many governors have issued official guidance, ... Read More
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4 Tips to Reset Your Marriage During COVID-19
Nothing compares to spending 24/7 with your spouse for weeks in a row to reveal the current state of your marriage. This is a situation many couples are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps ... Read More
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COVID-19: Finding Opportunities for Positive Change
As a therapist, I am witness to the havoc the COVID-19 pandemic is inflicting on people. My heart goes out to those whose lives are being devastated. This includes the sick and the dying, ... Read More
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COVID-19 and Couples: Being Less Reactive and More Vulnerable
If your relationship with your significant other is suffering right now, you’re not alone. Relationships go through ups and downs in the best of circumstances, but the arrival of COVID-19 ... Read More
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Geriatric Psychotherapy: A Growing Need
Geriatric Psychotherapy: A Growing Need Thanks to active lifestyles, healthier diets, exercise, and advances in medicine and healthcare, Americans are ... Read More
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Recovering from a Traumatic Birth
Dealing with the Trauma of Giving Birth For many new mothers, giving birth is one of the most exciting times in life. After all, you’re bringing a ... Read More
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Wisdom for Working with Elder Therapy Clients
by Nicole Urdang, MS, NCC, DHM, Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Buffalo, NY Wisdom for Working with Elder Therapy Clients While it is true that people ... Read More
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Taking Care of Children’s Mental Health
Taking Care of Children’s Mental Health When most of us think about folks going to therapy for mental health, we think about adults — people struggling ... Read More
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Dr. Aaron T. Beck: The Father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dr. Aaron T. Beck: The Father of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy On Monday, Nov. 1, the world lost an incredible psychiatrist when Dr. Aaron T. Beck, ... 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