Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
She’d gone to her first therapy session about grief mostly to satisfy her sister, who’d been asking for months. She hadn’t expected much. She’d expected...
Read Article →Her dog had slept at the foot of her bed every night for fourteen years. He’d been there through a divorce, a cross-country move, two...
Read Article →The question she couldn’t stop asking wasn’t the kind she could put into a sentence cleanly. It was more like a question underneath questions: whether...
Read Article →She was sixty-one years old. They’d been married for thirty-eight years. After the funeral, the house felt different in a way she couldn’t name at...
Read Article →Most people have heard of the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — the framework is so embedded in our culture that...
Read Article →Many people who struggle with gaming dependency describe real life in similar terms: flat, colorless, slow, empty. Not temporarily — not just on days when...
Read Article →The previous article in this series made the case that gaming builds genuine, transferable skills — not as a consolation prize, but as an accurate...
Read Article →If you have spent years gaming heavily, you have probably absorbed a particular story about what that time means. The story usually runs something like...
Read Article →Telehealth has become the standard for many types of therapy, but it’s worth saying something specific about why online therapy works particularly well for gaming...
Read Article →The mental health field hasn’t caught up with gaming addiction yet. There are excellent clinicians working in this space, but they’re not the majority, and...
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