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Blunted Affect: When Your Face Doesnt Reveal Your Feelings
People with blunted affect don’t express emotions as obviously as most people do. If you have a blunted affect, your outward appearance seems to ...
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How Fearful Avoidant Attachment Affects Relationships
Humans learn to attach, or connect, to one another through their relationships with their parents. Understanding fearful avoidant attachment can he...
Read moreHow Black and White Thinking Hurts You (And what You Can Do to Change It)
And because people have ups and downs (to phrase it dichotomously), plus quirks and inconsistencies, conflicts inevitably arise. If we approach nor...
Read moreWhy Do You Feel Bad When Someone Pays for Your Meal?
So when a friend offers to cover a meal for me, it feels somewhat akin to a real- life “teach a man to fish†scenario, but sometimes I can’t ...
Read moreWhat is Verbal Abuse? How to Recognize Abusive Behavior and what to Do Next
We all get into arguments from time to time. The trouble is, when you’re involved in a verbally abusive relationship, it can wear you down and se...
Read moreHow to Identify Flight of Ideas in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
Flight of ideas is a symptom of a mental health condition, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. But it’s common in people with certain ment...
Read moreHow TCM Can Help with Mental Health
This idea of a “vital energy†guiding our physical and mental processes is shared in other cultures — “prana†in Indian culture and “pn...
Read moreHolistic Therapy: Treating Body, Mind, and Spirit for Whole Person Healing
It involves “bringing all layers and aspects of our clients into the therapy and mental health space,†says holistic therapist Lenaya Smith Cra...
Read moreChant Joseph: How I Finally Got Diagnosed with ADHD After Years of Misdiagnosis and Masking
I was doing a lot of masking – a lot of women with ADHD tend to mask their symptoms – and I would use extracurricular, more creative projects a...
Read moreThis Common Anxiety Symptom Makes Me Feel Like Reality is Slipping Away
I feared I’d lose my grip on reality, which already felt tenuous and shaky because of a severe flare-up of lifelong anxiety and panic. But I was ...
Read moreTeen Will Hide Their Eating Disorder: Heres what You Should Look For
Jessica Dowling, an eating disorder therapist in St. Louis, Missouri, says that eating disorders develop primarily in the teen years, with the peak...
Read moreBeginner's Guide to Mirror Gazing Meditation
Two main differences set mirror gazing apart: the use of a mirror, and the focus on coming face-to-face with yourself to learn more about your inne...
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