Shadow work involves exploring the hidden parts of your unconscious self, with the goal of self-awareness, growth, and a ...

The idea of “ghosting” has entered the mainstream courtesy of dating apps and social media. When someone stops responding to your messages or taking your calls suddenly and without explanation, you’ve ...

To swipe left or to swipe right? That is the question. Dating apps are typically more convenient than trying to meet someone in real life, but they’re not a miracle solution for finding love. The apps ...

When Carol was a child, her mother often struggled with anxiety. She was insecure in her relationship with her daughter, and she felt threatened by Carol’s relationships with her friends. To keep ...

Social media platforms can offer people unique ways to connect, communicate, learn, and work. On the flip side, these channels can also be used to spread misinformation, market products, exploit ...

Self-advocacy is educating yourself on your symptoms and behaviors regarding your health and then speaking up to your health care provider. Self-diagnosis is going a step further and labeling your ...

Psychopathy is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by a lack of empathy as well as limited or incomplete control over emotional responses. Often, this combination leads to persistent antisocial ...

The first time I had a panic attack, I didn’t know I was having one. I was sitting on a tour bus in the Cayman Islands with my family, about to leave for a day trip. Having just recovered from a ...

It’s Monday morning. You’re sitting at your desk in a daze, getting ready to start yet another long workday. The projects and tasks keep piling up, but you can’t seem to motivate yourself to get ...

Harm reduction. Symptom management. Lowering “subjective units of distress.” Many of us have trained for years to achieve identifiable goals such as these, which fit nicely into case notes and satisfy ...

Welcome to our video series “Ask a Therapist.” In each episode, therapist.com senior writer Amye Archer sits down with two expert clinicians to pose questions submitted by our audience. What can a ...