Tagged: questions about your health

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What do all these letters mean?

  You may have seen them before when navigating in the mental health world…MD, LPC, MFT, LCSW, PhD…what do they all mean?! Here is a very brief introduction to what some of these different...

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Self-Care Outside of Therapy

Actual Conversation: Person 1: I go to therapy every week, why do I need to do anything else about this? Person 2: If you do your self-care work, therapy is going to go a lot...

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Writing away the Stigma

I recently found out about this book Writing Away the Stigma: Ten Courageous Writers Tell True Stories About Depression, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, OCD, PTSD & more One in four American adults will endure the trials of...

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Emotional First Aid

  By taking action when you’re lonely, by changing your responses to failure, by protecting your self-esteem, by battling negative thinking, you won’t just heal your psychological wounds, you will build emotional resilience, you...

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Being Prepared for a Doctor’s Office Visit

The US Department of Health and Human Services has an Office of Adolescent Health that currently has a Think, Act, Grow program. One of the links they provide is for how to prepare for...

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More Than Saddness

Depression is more than sadness. It is more than not being able to get out of bed. Depression means many things to many people. It can be hard to talk about or even get...

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You Matter

Introducing YouMatter!!!! An online suicide prevention site structured around a blog written by young people around the country who write about their own real experiences and how they worked through them. The site’s main theme...