When someone is dealing with both a mental health condition and a substance use disorder at the same time, a common approach has been to treat one before addressing the other. Get stable first, then work on the underlying issues. Get sober first, then deal...
When most people hear the phrase “trauma-informed therapy,” they picture someone working through a specific event. An accident. A loss. Something that clearly belongs in the category of trauma. But trauma-informed therapy is not a specialty track reserved for people with a formal trauma history....
If you have ever tried to stop thinking about something and found that the thought immediately got louder, you have experienced one of the more frustrating truths about how the mind works. Telling yourself not to think about something is almost guaranteed to make you...
If you find yourself jumping to the worst possible explanation for almost everything, a delayed text, a look from your boss, a physical symptom you cannot identify, you are not imagining it, and you are not broken. Your brain is doing exactly what it was...