Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
The patient hadn’t left her apartment in nine days. Depression does that: it saps the energy required to do the things that would help, which...
Read Article →Matthew Walker, who directs the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley, opens his 2017 book “Why We Sleep” with an uncomfortable claim: there...
Read Article →The Harvard Study of Adult Development has been running since 1938. Researchers tracked 724 men over the span of their lives, following their health, relationships,...
Read Article →You’ve gotten through the hard part. The crisis has passed, the worst of the depression lifted, the anxiety is manageable now. Your therapist calls it...
Read Article →At some point, the story became the truth. Not consciously , you didn’t decide “I am an anxious person” or “I am someone who can’t...
Read Article →You’ve done plenty of work on yourself. You understand where your patterns come from. You can articulate, with real clarity, how your childhood experiences shaped...
Read Article →Your emotions don’t come at medium volume. When something hurts, it really hurts. When something excites you, it’s electric. When someone disappoints you, the feeling...
Read Article →You’ve tried telling yourself to stop worrying. You’ve told yourself the anxious thoughts aren’t rational, that you’re catastrophizing, that you need to just let it...
Read Article →You’ve decided you want to find a therapist. You open Psychology Today’s therapist finder, type in your zip code, and ninety-four results appear. You click...
Read Article →You’ve talked about it plenty. You understand why it happened, you understand the impact it’s had, you can trace the thread from your childhood to...
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