Exams, skipping classes, job interviews, new projects, dates. These are just some of the things that make us feel anxious. Almost all of us have experienced that sensation of momentary butterflies in our stomach. But anxiety can be a grave problem, debilitating and crippling someone’s ability to function normally. You feel like you’re repeating patterns…
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Solution Focused Therapy Helps Battle Addiction
Alcohol and drugs obviously create altered states of mind, but overeating, gambling, or having a sex addiction do as well. — Wendy Salazar, MFT There are a wide array of options of therapies drug rehabilitation offers. Each person who has addiction has specific needs, and each case is unique and that different treatments are offered.
My Lover Is An Impostor (Capgras Syndrome)
Ever imagine how you would feel when one day your partner no longer recognizes you but instead telling you to get out of the house because you are just an impostor trying to copy everything his husband is. And then later it will be other members of the family, could be the mom and…
Body Integrity Identity Disorder Helps Me Understand My Transgender Partner (Mental Stress Of Having Unwanted Limb)
Transgender brains are a hot topic nowadays, but I never thought that researching concerning this topic would lead me to an issue of body integrity identity disorder which kind of come as awful to me, questioning how these people think. Due to social norms and constraints, folx from queer and trans communities are typically compelled…
Mental Struggle Of A Mother Dying Of Cancer
They say that dying of cancer is the sweetest and best way to die, but no matter what, death is still painful for those that will be left behind and to the one who is going away, especially if she is a mother. A mother who worries about the welfare of her family that brings…
Psychological Issues Of A Hoarder Affects Family (A Hoarder Mom)
One day, I received an email from a prospective client who is troubled by her mother’s hoarding problem. She said she wanted to help her mother, but she has no idea what is going on with her and what she is supposed to do.
Winter Depression Treatment, Light Therapy, Hugging, And Cuddling
Some people who claim to have normal mental health almost all year round experience depression during the same period every year. Such condition is known as winter depression in which they may sleep too much or may show to have little energy.
Extreme Cases of Hoarding
Collecting or keeping things is part of our human nature; we do this for us to preserve the sentimental value behind everything we keep. We collect items such as dolls, cars, watches and the likes because it gives us the satisfaction of seeing things that we like. The art of collecting involves organized and careful…
Paraphilias: How They Develop And Possible Treatments
As a complex human experience, sexuality manifests in patterns unique to each person, deriving from the way fantasy imagery merges with his or her sexual and emotional development. — Katherine Ramsland Ph.D. There is a great deal of controversy associated with deviant sexual behaviors and preferences. The definition of what is normal over aberrant or disordered…
Five Interesting Mental Illness Syndromes
The human mind is fascinating. The magnitude of creativity, ideas, thoughts, and memories it can process is endless. Due to this wonder of the mind, it is a subject of many research and studies most especially on topics of mental health, geniuses, childhood development disorders and many more. People are familiar with mental disorders…
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