Mood and Anxiety
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Mood and Anxiety States
Through the mid 1990’s, depression was considered the “common cold” of mental health. We now know that twice as many people experience anxiety, but together, anxiety and depression affect sixty million adults in the United States...
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Trauma
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Trauma
As a mental health professional who has been in the trenches working with people for more than forty years, I have had extensive experience working with the victims of trauma...
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Relationships and Couples
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Relationships and Couples
In this high-stress age of internet romance, reblended families, and evolving values, love relationships are more complex and challenging than ever. Economic difficulty and shared or co-parenting issues just pile on. At a time when we no longer trust the government or schools, when we no longer go to church, and extended families no longer provide the support they used to in the “good old days”,
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Addiction
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Addiction
If only addiction was simply about excessive substance use or behavior. It is actually about a complex interaction between: genetics, neurology, personality style, family patterns or modeling, psychosocial stressors, self-esteem, and ethnic heritage...
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Young Adults
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Young Adults
For this professional, our modern era presents two conflicting realities to young people: Today is incredibly exciting as the information/technology age offers opportunities not dreamed of just twenty years ago...
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Mental Health Diagnoses
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Mental Health Diagnoses
With the discovery of the major categories of psycho-pharmaceutical agents beginning in the 1960’s and up to the present day, biologically based mental illness is more effectively treatable today than ever before...
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LGBT
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LGBT
It’s an extremely exciting time to be a member of the LGBT community as it seems that US culture is finally “getting it”. Two-thirds of the American public embraces marital choice, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is gone, and gay haters and bashers are quickly becoming an official “lunatic fringe”...
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