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Loving Myself: the Last and Best Lesson from My Dad
Here I am, three-and-a-half years after suddenly losing my dad when he was only 52 years old. Here I am. Here is this person, this woman, this wife, mother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, ... Read More
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7 Things I Want to Tell My Therapist
Diagnosed with a mental health issues 15 years ago, first with bipolar and finally with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type, I’ve been in therapy off and on for that same amount ... Read More
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Why I Believe in Healing through Therapy
Editor’s note: This story contains references to and details of self-harm and suicide attempts that may be triggering to some readers. I find good therapy to be a very fulfilling, rewarding, ... Read More
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Self-Portrait for the Soul: How I Healed with Art Therapy
About a year ago, I was working as an art therapist in private practice and I had a 12-year-old client struggling with anxiety and figuring out who she was in the world. I asked her to ... Read More
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Homework that Helps: Using CBT Workbooks to Reduce Anger
Editor’s note: Tempus Bell is a continuing contributor to the Share Your Story feature on The Good Therapy Blog. Tempus Bell’s previous article is Stigma: Come at Me, If You ... Read More
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Stigma: Come at Me, If You Can!
Mental illness stigma is out of control. In past years we have been to Iraq; businesses have been bailed out; crazy oil spills have destroyed underwater life; people are just now waking ... Read More
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Infatuation in My Forties: Was It a Midlife Crisis?
Just over three years ago I considered myself happily married and content to grow older gracefully. I was 46, working hard as a senior school teacher and raising two teenage girls. My husband, ... Read More
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How Jealousy and Depression Led Me to Spy on My Husband
The matter of trust is always a burning issue, especially nowadays when technology has taken over the bigger part of our lives. With the development of social media, we forgot how to talk ... Read More
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Uncovering Abuses Past and Present, Finding Strength
I am on an amazing journey. I have reached a critical juncture in my life, and I am writing this so that you can learn from my story as I have learned from your stories. I have recently ... Read More
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Because I’m Happy! (In Spite of Everything)
Everything I know about how to be happy and productive I learned from my therapists. Of course, that’s not something I discuss regularly in my blog or even in the book I’ve written. ... Read More
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The Childhood Trauma I Didn’t Know I Had
My story starts at age 9. Both my parents were depressed and my family moved a lot. As the oldest of four children, I carried a lot of responsibility, even at such a young age. When I started ... Read More
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Bipolar Parenting: From Struggle to Stability
Three years ago I found myself pregnant with our seventh child, just a few months after already giving birth to our sixth. At first, we were ecstatic to be having another baby; we had always ... Read More