Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
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...
Read Article →Someone newly diagnosed with depression asks their doctor whether they should try medication or therapy. The doctor says medication. They go to see a therapist...
Read Article →You’ve decided you want to try therapy. You’ve done a little searching, maybe found a few names, and then you hit the thing that stops...
Read Article →It’s 2:00 in the morning and something has broken open. Maybe it’s been building for weeks. Maybe it arrived suddenly, a loss, a phone call,...
Read Article →You leave a therapy session and something has shifted. Maybe a realization settled in. Maybe a hard conversation loosened something you’d been carrying for months....
Read Article →Someone calls to schedule an intake appointment and, somewhere in that first conversation, they ask the question almost everyone asks: “How long do you think...
Read Article →The night before your first therapy appointment, you might find yourself doing something odd: trying to rehearse. Mentally organizing what you’ll say, figuring out where...
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