When you need a psychiatrist first: signs that therapy is not the first step
Six signs for which a doctor is the first address rather than a therapist — from suicidal thoughts to suspicion of a physical cause. And what those close by can do.
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A Look into the Past: what happens in a 90-minute genogram session
What actually happens in a 90-minute genogram session? Phase by phase: the agreement, drawing three generations, the pauses, the first connections and the close.
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Depression is not sadness: how to tell them apart and why it matters
Sadness has an object and fluctuates; depression often has neither. Four practical dividing lines, where it gets complicated, and when to stop waiting.
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Eating disorders are not about food: what is really underneath
The disorder plays out at food, but it speaks about control, about feelings with no words, and about shame. And why nutritional stability still comes first.
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Support through separation: how therapy keeps loss from turning into resentment
What therapy actually does during a separation: room for what went unsaid, separating feelings from decisions, grief without a ritual, and resentment that finds a place to go.
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Termination of pregnancy for medical reasons: a decision with no good option
When a scan shows that something has gone seriously wrong with a pregnancy, there is no good choice. On grief after a termination for medical reasons, guilt, the silence of others and…
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What depression feels like from the inside - for those who have never had it
Depression is not stronger sadness but mostly an absence. A description of the experience from the inside, for those close by and for those living it.
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Seasonal affective disorder: why winter pulls you under
Why some people's mood collapses every winter, what we really know, where the light explanation breaks down, and what can be set up in September.
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Why we go back to exes, and when going back is a pattern rather than love
On-off relationships are more common than you think. Why we are pulled back, what each round costs, and the concrete criteria that separate a decision from a pattern.
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Early signs: how to recognise an abusive relationship at the start
Violence rarely begins with a blow. More often it begins with intensity, jealousy and isolation that look a lot like love.
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