Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
You wake up with it, or it settles over you in the middle of an ordinary afternoon. Heart slightly elevated, chest a little tight, a...
Read Article →You’re drowning and the people around you don’t know. You manage, somehow, to project enough okay that nobody asks too hard. And when someone does...
Read Article →You hesitate before asking for help. You minimize your needs because you don’t want to inconvenience people. When someone offers support, your first instinct is...
Read Article →You get a good job and find reasons to undermine your own performance. You meet someone who treats you well and start picking fights for...
Read Article →You apologize when someone bumps into you. You feel responsible for other people’s moods. You replay things you said years ago and still feel bad...
Read Article →You replay the conversation you had three days ago, trying to figure out if you said something wrong. You run through every possible outcome of...
Read Article →Something should be registering — grief, or joy, or concern, or love — and instead there’s nothing. Just a flat, muted quality to experience that...
Read Article →You’re in pain, and the people who care about you are right there — and somehow, you find a way to create distance. You say...
Read Article →There’s something uniquely disorienting about emotional emptiness. It’s not sadness exactly — sadness at least feels like something. Emptiness is more like a hollow space...
Read Article →You ended the last relationship because of the same things that drove you crazy in the one before it. Or you’re in a long-term relationship...
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