So You Want Mental Health Treatment
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So You Want Mental Health Treatment

Mental health treatment is different for everyone, and people often feel overwhelmed trying to figure out where to begin. Outpatient therapy is a great place to start, and you and your therapist can work together to figure out if that is the right course, or if you need a higher level of care.

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It’s Not Anxiety, It’s Medical Trauma
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It’s Not Anxiety, It’s Medical Trauma

Medical trauma can cause a person to feel helpless and often hopeless. These emotions are certainly understandable. Taking care of your mental health and learning to advocate for yourself in the medical system can be empowering.

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How To Talk To Kids About Anxiety
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How To Talk To Kids About Anxiety

Young people need to understand anxiety is our brain's way of checking to see if we are okay, not to tell us that we aren’t okay.

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8 Questions to Ask Your Therapist
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8 Questions to Ask Your Therapist

Therapists expect clients to have questions about therapy when they come to a session, especially if this is their first time in therapy.

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Dangers of Overparenting
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Dangers of Overparenting

Parenting well can feel like trying to hit a moving target. Parental involvement and responsiveness have been linked to child success, yet too much of either can have detrimental effects to children. So how do you know how much involvement and responsiveness is too much?

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Is it Anxiety or Undiagnosed ADHD?
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Is it Anxiety or Undiagnosed ADHD?

Your therapist may overlook ADHD if not taken any continuing education classes related to how ADHD presents in adults, which is much different than in children.

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Non-Violent Communication
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Non-Violent Communication

Often, when we are having trouble communicating with others, we resort to our worst tendencies and leave interactions feeling frustrated, hurt, and confused.

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Trauma and Need
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Trauma and Need

When someone has experienced a traumatic event, depending on what the event was and what else was going on at the time, the person might completely change some of the ways that they interact with the world.

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