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Tag: Psychotherapy

We Need to Stop Teaching People to Be the Bigger Person if They Don’t Want to Be

Most empaths struggle with too much empathy, not too little. Yet, since empathy is the new norm, they’re told that … More

Growth, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Personal Development, Psychology, Psychotherapy

The Myth of Sainthood: Why You and I Will Always Be Works-In-Progess

I’m a contradiction. To reduce my psyche to any particular set of traits is impossible, because I’m often one person … More

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Perfectionism, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychotherapy

The Orchid that Grew from Concrete: What It’s Like to be A Highly Sensitive Kid

Our culture demands conformity. As much as most of us hate to admit it, living in the U.S. especially, we … More

Childhood, Depression, Growth, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Tupac

When Style Becomes Law: How Our Rigid Beliefs and Solutions Can Create Unnecessary Conflicts

“I personally do not believe in ‘style‘. Because of ‘styles‘, people are separated. They are not united together because styles became law.” … More

Depolorization, Mental Health, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Trotsky, Utopia

A Good Therapist Doesn’t Have to Know Everything: The Importance of Admitting Your Intellectual Limitations to Clients

To me, few things are harder to tolerate than my own ignorance; I hate admitting that I don’t know something. … More

Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychology, Psychotherapy

Why Do I Always End Up in Toxic Relationships?: Understanding the Thought Patterns of Mistreated Partners

A girl I once knew, who was involved in a physically abuse relationship at some point in her past, told … More

Dating, Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychotherapy, Red Flags, Relationships

Why Psychotherapy Can’t, and Shouldn’t, Make You Happy

“While the daimonic (your dark emotions and impulses) cannot be said to be evil in itself, it confronts us with … More

Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Happiness, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychology, Psychotherapy

You’re Both a Success and a Failure: How You Can Begin to Unlearn Self-Blame and Abuse

Life is often viewed as a series of attempts and successes and failures, which we allow to define us throughout … More

CBT, Depression, Existentialism, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychotherapy

The History of the Diagnosis & Treatment of Mental Illness — O4L Online Network

On episode 43, we welcome Derek McAllister to discuss the history of the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Derek … More

Existentialism, Growth, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Philosophy, Podcast, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy

Simple, But Not Easy: Creating Perseverance Through Psychotherapy

In my article, Goodbye Neverland, I wrote that in order to overcame the past, we had to simply choose to … More

Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychotherapy

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