Could therapy ease your coronavirus stress? How to decide, what to expect and where to find it.

“Consider professional help if you are: feeling anxious, tense or angry all the time; unable to relax or take your mind off your worries; experiencing panic attacks; or having difficulty sleeping, concentrating, interacting with others or getting things done.”

Read the full story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/finding-therapy-coronavirus-stress-anxiety-anger/2020/04/25/4c00dd3c-866d-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

Overcoming the Painful Desires and Beliefs That Feed Addiction

"I believed that getting high and drunk was really great, and I believed that sober life was complete drudgery. These beliefs played themselves out quite predictably.

I felt tortured and deprived when I was sober. I would trudge to work, then I would trudge home and hope that I could fall asleep quickly to end the misery until the morning.” Read the full story here:  https://tinybuddha.com/blog/overcoming-painful-desires-beliefs-that-feed-addiction/

7 Reasons Why I Share My Childhood Sexual Abuse Story

“My voice was silenced as a victim. My innocence was stolen by someone who was supposed to love and protect me, my confidence destroyed; and the world became a dangerous and scary place. Even now, as a survivor, I still often feel like the victim when I dig in and face my past. It is so raw and intense. When I prepare to share my story I go through a gamut of emotions: I am scared, I am anxious and embarrassed. I wonder if anyone will believe me. I wonder, am I talking about my past too much and being selfish? Am I making people uncomfortable with the weight of my truth? Does anyone even care?” Read the full story here: https://themighty.com/2017/09/sharing-story-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/

Chronic pain often has no physical cause. Psychotherapy can reduce the suffering.

“Like many patients with chronic pain, Golson never got a concrete diagnosis. For a decade, the 38-year-old Californian went from doctor to doctor, trying all the standard treatments: opioids, hand splints, cortisone injections, epidural injections, exercises, even elective surgery. 

Golson’s pain was not caused by anything physically wrong with him. But it wasn’t imagined. It was real.  After weaning himself off the opioid Vicodin and feeling like he had exhausted every medical option, Golson turned to a book that described how pain could be purely psychological in origin.” Read the full story here: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/17/17276452/chronic-pain-treatment-psychology-cbt-mindfulness-evidence