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03 May: Living With Depression

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30 Apr: Risks and Benefits of Therapy

Therapy has potential risks and rewards and your therapist should discuss these with you as part of the informed consent…

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26 Apr: How to Prevent Chronic Insomnia

Insomnia comes in two “flavors”: acute and chronic. Acute insomnia is insomnia that suddenly appears, seemingly out of the blue….

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23 Apr: Therapy for Grief: Does it Help?

The answer to the question “does therapy help grief?” depends on what you mean by “help,” so I’m going to…

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17 Apr: Part 2: What Makes a Therapist Effective?

In Part One, I discussed the importance of what is called the therapeutic alliance. This is the quality or the…

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10 Apr: Part 1: What Makes a Therapist Effective?

For many years, researchers looked at kinds of counseling or therapy, what are called schools of therapy, to see which…

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05 Apr: Do I have Insomnia?

Since you are reading this, I’m going to take the not-so-giant leap and guess that you are having some struggles…

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02 Apr: What is Treatment-Resistant Depression?

Take-Away Points: Treatment-resistant depression is depression which does not respond to multiple treatments (usually different types of antidepressants). Treatment-resistant depression…

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