Can I Make My Kid Gay?
Having heard someone wonder if they were turning their child gay, I decided to address the question. Can I make my kid gay?
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Having heard someone wonder if they were turning their child gay, I decided to address the question. Can I make my kid gay?
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The first thing you have to ask yourself when you wonder why you can’t find a satisfying relationship is, “Am I satisfied with myself?”
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There are some fundamental things you want to consider when you are trying to come up with reasons why your relationship isn’t working.
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Many people believe that long lost childhood experiences have no bearing on their mental health as adults. I can’t count the number of times I have heard someone say that their childhood was fine and that they are “happy with what my parents taught me.” On the other hand, I can count on zero fingers the number of people who are completely happy with all their behavior.
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Whether you have decided to go “the medication route” or not, the last piece of advice you will generally find online about how to relieve depression when you can’t beat it on your own is to “know when to seek professional help,” or to “know that there is no shame in talking to someone.”
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If you have ever asked yourself, why can’t I control my anger, then I have some answers for you.
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I just read a Yahoo Answers thread with this title: “I think I’m falling in Love with My Therapist.” As a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, I found the answers provided by the respondents to range from uninformed and ridiculous to directive but unhelpful.
I Think I’m Falling in Love with my Therapist!?!??!! Read More »
Technically speaking, transference is “an exceedingly complicated concept… best defined, for practical purposes… the tendency to repeat, in a current setting, attitudes, feelings, impulses, and desires, experienced or generated in early life in relation to important figures in the individual’s development.”
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As a counselor I am often asked, How long does therapy take? Unfortunately, I don’t have a simple answer for this question. Therapy, counseling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis or whatever else you want to call it, can take a very short time or it can take a very long time.
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In the current issue of Psychology Today, the author, Dr. Suniya Luthar, describes what she calls, “The problem with rich kids.” These youth have everything they could ever want materially, but they also have higher rates of substance use, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, cheating and stealing than ever.
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