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How to Choose a Therapist: Tips and Fits

Stop Abuse Campaign

Although many people may still feel that there is a stigma attached to seeking mental health services, we all need help from time to time. It is essentially a helping relationship between a licensed mental health professional and a client. In this article, we’ll discuss how to choose the right therapist for you.

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How to Help Someone Who’s Experiencing PTSD

Gateway Foundation

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can severely impact a person’s life. When a partner, family member, or friend has PTSD, it can also take a heavy toll on your relationship with them. What PTSD Looks Like. Avoidance Symptoms. Arousal and Reactivity Symptoms.

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Mental Health Check-in

Abuse Survivor

I think anyone would under my circumstances of life plus debilitating PTSD symptoms. I have to remember that I wake up with a certain amount of stress and accept that I’m not running around like someone that doesn’t have PTSD so I need to give myself a break. I am unable to sit in person with a trauma therapist just yet.

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What Is A Traumaversary And How Can It Affect Us?

MQ Mental Health

The term ‘ Traumaversary’ has crept into the mental health world in recent years. Experiences like this may mean some people develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder also known as PTSD or cPTSD ( complex post traumatic stress disorder) symptoms. What is a traumatic event? Our physiological responses can be huge and unexpected.

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Does Your Child have GAD?

Gary Direnfeld

The child had only seen individual therapists, none of whom knew of the parent’s own anxiety related to childhood experiences. It was only when the new therapist insisted on meeting with the parents first did the one parent’s issue with anxiety related to their past, emerge. That is the nature of GAD.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US.

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Emotional Support Animal Massachusetts: Know The Laws 2023

Blurt It Out

Photo: Team Design Emotional support animals provide therapeutic companionship to people with mental health disabilities. Unlike service animals, an ESA’s primary role is to provide emotional comfort rather than perform tasks to assist people with a physical or mental impairment. The two most prevalent ESAs are dogs and cats.