Health Anxiety
There are many ways anxiety, stress, trauma may manifest in our bodies. One common manifestation of this is through health anxiety, also called Illness Anxiety Disorder, where people worry …
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Care for the Highly Sensitive Person
Dr. Elaine Aron, PhD first described the highly sensitive person (HSP) as a personality trait in her book, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms …
High Functioning Depression
The alarm goes off, and you sigh. Everything feels so heavy. You hit snooze, and again, and are still tired. Wearily you sigh again and get up. It feels …
Agoraphobia & Phone Call Anxiety
We often think of Agoraphobia only as of the inability to leave one’s house. But it may present in more subtle ways and still be very debilitating. The DSM-5 gives Agoraphobia …
Until We Can End Mental Health Stigma, We Work Around It
“I would never want to have a mental health diagnosis on my record” A quote from Gold, Andrew, Goldman, & Schwenk (2016) retrieved from https://buff.ly/2yRTVh8 These researchers found the reason …
Grief and Depression
Grief and depression may look and feel the same, but there are some important distinctions. “Losing Love is Like a Window in Your Heart. Everybody Sees You’re Blown Apart. …