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Relationship OCD: When You Can't Stop Doubting a Relationship You Want
You are watching a film together on the couch, and the question arrives again: do I actually love them? So you check.…
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Why Fall Feels Heavier: Seasonal Depression, the Winter Blues and What Helps
It usually lands in the first week of November. On the last Saturday of October, the National Research Council's sun calculator puts…
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The Empty Chair at Thanksgiving: Grief, Estrangement and the Family Table
The hard part is rarely the day itself. It is the ten days before it, when the texts start going around about…
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The 6pm Rage: When You're Angrier at Your Kids Than You Want to Be
It is a quarter past six. Dinner is twenty minutes from being ready, the homework folder is still in the car, and…
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It's Not “Being a Bit OCD”: What Intrusive Thoughts Actually Are
You are chopping vegetables and a thought arrives, fully formed and horrifying, about the knife in your hand. You put it down.…
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“Nothing Bad Enough Happened to Me”: Why Small-t Trauma Still Counts
There is a sentence that comes up in first sessions more often than almost any other. Someone describes fifteen years of something,…
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Addiction Is Not a Moral Failing
August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, marked in dozens of countries every year since 2001. Its symbols are purple and a…
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Leaving for University: The Transition Nobody Prepares You For
Every August, minivans across the GTA fill up with mattress toppers, power bars, and a teenager pretending to be less nervous than…
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It’s Not Shyness: What Social Anxiety Actually Feels Like
There’s a specific kind of tired that follows a work event. You went, you smiled, you managed. Then you sat in your…
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The August Scaries: Why Back-to-School Anxiety Starts Weeks Before School Does
The first back-to-school commercial usually airs while it’s still 30 degrees outside. Somewhere around that same week, a lot of kids get…
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BIPOC Mental Health Month: Why Culturally Responsive Therapy Matters
July is recognized as BIPOC Mental Health Month, an observance that began in the United States as Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority…
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When Summer Makes You Sad: Understanding Reverse Seasonal Depression
Everyone knows about winter blues. The short grey days, the cold, the urge to hibernate until April. Entire industries exist around surviving…