Dear Young Therapist: You Don’t Have to Be An Idealist and Try to Save the World

Millennials are whiners. God, I’ve heard that so many times. An article by a prominent psychiatrist was recently published in … More

Determinism in Therapy: Why the Belief in Free-Will Can Be Detrimental to Your Mental Health

Most of my life, people told me that I was too hard on myself. I seemed to have always wanted … More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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