Understanding Anxiety: Differentiating Normal Stress from Diagnosable Anxiety Anxiety is a term that’s thrown around somewhat loosely today. Whether you’re a college student with finals coming up or your working towards a deadline at your job; anxiety seems to be the term people gravitate to when they want to describe how their feeling. What’s normal […]
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Let’s not sugarcoat this situation. Life can be a royal pain in the ass. One day you’re on top of the world, happy and successful and the next you’re scrambling because of a Chinese virus. At some point in time we all experience this roller coaster ride known as living. We have all had setbacks
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MYTH: Eating disorders are not real medical conditions. FACT: They ARE real conditions! They are complex psychiatric conditions that can have serious lifelong consequences. In a nutshell, there are three main types of eating disorders that I will cover in this blog: anorexia nervosa (strict restriction of food intake), bulimia (binge eating followed by purging to prevent
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Dealing With Isolation It’s been just over a month. One month, since the United States initiated “Stay at Home Orders”. One month, since “non-essential” business shut down. One month, since everyones lives in our country were changed. Unfortunately, some people have been affected more drastically than others. Even more will be affected in the coming
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I already have my medications, so why would I need therapy? 5 Benefits of “Talk Therapy” Learning how to process your emotions so that overtime you are able to move forward and your emotions (whether that be anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, etc) have gradually diminished. Having an outlet of expression for those emotions and concerns to a nonbiased
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Why is it that we care so much what other think? Often times, is it that you do things to just make another person happy? Does this, in turn, make you unhappy? We shouldn’t have to think this much into everything we do. Some can compartmentalize and just do the “right” thing all the time.
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Focusing can be hard enough when you are alone at your desk with a full cup of coffee and a full nights sleep under your belt. Throw in a cell phone, two computer screens, and background conversations and you have a recipe for half finished work, mounting stress, and angry bosses. Whether you’re in school
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Remember the days when we could plan on going to a concert or sporting event? Seems like it’s been a while. The question is when will that be ok again? Hopefully soon. We’re stuck in limbo so to speak and the concern is whether or not we will be able to have the luxuries we
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Has your world been turned upside down in the past few months? Have you lost your job/income? Or maybe it’s your spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend…Are you struggling and worried about making ends meet? Are the kids driving you nuts? Are you missing the outside and your aimless walking around the store just to see people and buy things
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Having difficulties falling asleep at night? Well, you are not alone. Millions of people across the world suffer from sleeping issues. Some have mild problems which can be improved with lifestyle changes, while others require assistance with medication. Regardless of how severe your insomnia may be, there are few of things you can do to
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