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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a real illness.  You can get PTSD after living through or seeing a dangerous event,…

Family Therapy & Substance Abuse Cost Analysis

Family therapy & substance abuse cost analysis shows the value of these interventions.  Substance abuse has the potential for recovery…

Depression

Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad, but these feelings are usually fleeting and pass within a couple of days.  When…

Coping with Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is physically and psychologically stressful and its constant discomfort can lead to anger and frustration with yourself and…

Help For Anxiety

John grabbed his cell phone and frantically called his mother.  “My mind is racing and I think I may be…

Top 10 Ways to Raise Your Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is not a gift bestowed by those outside of us or something that can be taken from us by…

Burnout

“My candle burns at both ends/it will not last the night.” —Edna St. Vincent Millay Burnout resists simple definition because…

Do You Have Workaholic Habits?

There is a clear difference between enthusiastic, energetic work toward a highly valued goal and workaholism. That difference lies primarily…

The Victim at Work:

The Victim at Work: Are You Playing This Role in Your Workplace? When a drama is going on in the…

Dealing with Change at Work

  The world of work is changing at an extraordinary pace. The old rules no longer apply, and new rules…

Stop Depression In Its Tracks

We don’t get depressed in a second. We get depressed in a series of well-defined steps. <> You can stop…

Shame: What You Can Do About It

Shame:  What you can do about it.  Most of us have problems with shame, to one degree or another. The first…