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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
"Do you feel better now?", my wife asked. "I could tell you were worried". No. Not really; not much better. I woke up one Saturday morning a while back to find the middle finger of my right hand swollen to about three times it's normal size. It looked as if I had made...
Types of Depression
There are several different kinds of depression. The most common is major depressive disorder. Major Depressive Disorder, sometimes called major depression or clinical depression, is the most common type of depression. So common, in fact, it is sometimes referred to...
What is an AAMFT Clinical Fellow
The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) is a professional association in the field of marriage and family therapy. The AAMFT represents more than 25,000 marriage and family therapists throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. The...
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders affect about 40 million American adults age 18 years and older (about 18%) in a given year, causing them to be filled with fearfulness and uncertainty. Unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety caused by a stressful event (such as speaking in public...
Panic Disorder
Imagine suddenly feeling like you might be having a heart attack. Your heart is pounding, you feel weak and faint. You may feel dizzy and find yourself sweating profusely. Chest pains are accompanied by nausea and perhaps a tingling or numbness in your hands. People...
What is Depression?
What is depression? Depression, Clinical Depression, Major Depression; all of these are terms used - often interchangeably - for a Major Depressive Disorder. Everybody feels sad occasionally. Feeling low, sad, or down are usually temporary, fleeting emotions that are...
Asking Your Children to Forgive You
We are always teaching our children something. We may teach explicitly through lectures, demonstrations, or having them help with a chore. Most often, though, we teach through example. Kids are always watching... and learning. What better way to teach them how and...
When Your Spouse Refuses Marriage Counseling
It happens on a regular basis: someone calls to make an appointment for marriage counseling and then calls the day of the appointment to cancel. “My spouse won’t come so there’s no point in keeping the appointment.” It’s aggravating because it’s just not true. One...
Counseling: It’s Who I Am
"How do you do this (counseling) all day long?" Usually this is asked at the end of a particularly difficult or emotional session. It’s often followed by the statement, “I couldn’t do what you do”. The truth is, I probably couldn't do what you do. Not day in and...
Depression and Exercise
Every time I see my primary care physician he talks to me about a healthy diet, sufficient sleep, and regular exercise. Since I’m in to see my doctor a minimum of once per quarter (to help keep asthma managed and under control) I hear this advice a lot. “Eat right,...
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