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Seasonal affective disorder, otherwise known as SAD affects many people every year. This type of depression is often found among those who go through bouts of depression that seem to occur in a pattern related to the seasons and time of year
Posted: 2008-01-28
Category: Psychology
While it is understandable that most people have a natural tendency to feel uncomfortable with their own aging and mortality, there are a few in the crowd who are horrified by the natural process to the point of having a phobia. The phobia where people are terrified of aging is called gerascophobia.
Posted: 2008-01-25
Category: Psychology
There comes a time in many people’s lives when they find that special someone. They date, they get married and then they can’t wait until they have a little bundle of joy.
Posted: 2008-01-22
Category: Psychology
Counseling is where a professional will give advice, opinions or direction based on what the patient has discussed with them. In some ways, a counselor could almost be seen as a guide. Counseling is done in an informal and comfortable environment where the patient is free to discuss what bothers them. They are free to express their feelings and emotions to someone they know are listening to them.
Posted: 2008-01-18
Category: Psychology
Before understanding what therapy is about, one must first understand what the word means. As is the case with many medical terms, therapy was derived from a Greek term and is the attempt of treating a problem a patient is diagnosed with. In plain and simple terms, therapy means treatment. Treatment can take the form of certain prescriptions or exercises, depending on the problem.
Posted: 2008-01-14
Category: Psychology
When you think about therapy, especially when it pertains to your marriage, online marriage therapy may not be something that comes to mind. However, in today’s world of ever advancing technology and where many things are based on the web, is it not only logical that online marriage therapy be an option.
Posted: 2008-01-05
Category: Marriage
Sometimes, in life, things happen that can so overwhelming, that therapy may be the only way to cope with them. Other times, mental illnesses may play a factor. Whatever the reason, if therapy has become an option or a necessity, you may feel some apprehension.
Posted: 2007-12-29
Category: Marriage
What is Normal when it comes to mental health? This is an age old debate that will most likely never truly be settled. What is ‘normal’ behavior to some may be totally ‘abnormal’ to others. At one time or another, everybody on earth wonders if they are ‘normal.’ Someone once said that if you have to ask, you probably are – simply because wondering if you are is in fact so very normal!
Posted: 2007-12-12
Category: Marriage
Many people seek out therapists for a wide variety of reasons. Perhaps you have issues dealing with stress. It could be that you have trouble in a relationship, or you might even have issues from your past that are affecting your future. Sometimes, you may just need to talk – and a therapist will make that very easy for you. But there is one problem that many therapists face – not all clients are completely honest with them.
Posted: 2007-12-04
Category: Marriage
Society mistakenly tends to believe that only those individuals in relationships that are rocky need counseling, but this isn’t so. Note the word ‘individual.’ We are all very individual, separate people. We all have our own way of thinking, and our own way of getting things done – and when two individuals come together to form a relationship, two worlds literally collide.
Posted: 2007-11-22
Category: Marriage
One of the most misunderstood things about depression is what causes it. There are those who believe that there must be a reason to be depressed, and this is not the case. It is never that simple, and there doesn’t have to be an apparent reason for depression to occur at all.
Posted: 2007-11-11
Category: Marriage
Many people don’t like the idea of group therapy, feeling like it some how invades their privacy. However, group therapy can be extremely beneficial, for a variety of reasons, and you can even take part in group therapy through online therapy. In fact, online therapy takes a great deal of the apprehensiveness of group therapy completely out of the picture. One of the biggest advantages of group therapy is that you are able to hear the feelings and experiences of others and then to either compare them or apply them to your own feelings and experiences.
Posted: 2007-10-21
Category: Marriage
You may be surprised to find that everyone, at some point in their lives, will benefit from counseling. This includes young adults. In fact, teens may need counseling more so than many other age groups simply because of all of the pressures put on them during those teen years. You should definitely consider young adult counseling for your teen.
Posted: 2007-10-05
Category: Marriage
The one thing that we can be sure of in this life is death. No matter how healthy we are, or the lifestyle that we live, we will all die at some point. Just as inevitable as this is, we will all face losing someone that we love someday as well – simply because death is inevitable. As depressing as this can be, death really is a part of the life cycle. Unfortunately, for those of us left behind to grieve, it is hard to get a grasp on that reality. For this reason, grief counseling may be a good idea.
Posted: 2007-09-27
Category: Marriage
A video counselor will do everything that an in-person counselor would do – except it is done via video, instead of face-to-face. Video counseling literally takes online counseling a step further, in that you can have an actual therapy session with the use of two way video.
Posted: 2007-09-22
Category: Marriage
