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People want to be right.
Therapy can be hard. I know I haven’t posted a lot recently, but it’s because therapy can be really hard. I mean the kind of hard that makes you hate it. It can make you hate yourself, hate your therapist, … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, anger management, Clarice Starling, counseling, dandy therapy, Darth Vader, emotional repression, fear, Fire on the Mountain, Hannibal Lecter, Henry Cameron, I am a Rock, Luke Skywalker, negative self talk, Portland Oregon, psychic armor, Reich, Simon and Garfunkel, Validation, Xbox
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When is a reaction an overreaction?
When bad news gets delivered at your doorstep, or when you find yourself in a stressful conversation, how do you generally handle it? Do you quickly respond by escalating the situation? Do you waste no time in defending yourself, your … Continue reading
Posted in anger, Anxiety, Mental health therapy, Therapy
Tagged anger, anger management, anxiety, Clint Eastwood, Communication, emotions, mental health concerns, overreaction, stress, therapy
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Are you man enough for therapy?
After reading an interesting article from the New York Times here, I thought it would be good timing to discuss whether men in our society are feeling like therapy is less and less of an option for them. To get … Continue reading
Posted in anger, Anxiety, Depression, Mental health therapy, Therapy
Tagged anger, blue collar, coward, father figures, Joseph Campbell, men, men in therapy, mental-health, mentor, New York Times, Relationships, therapy, white collar
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Why therapy? It’s a fair question.
If you are the kind of person who still goes to book stores, you can find aisles full of self help books, celebrities and people-who-think-they-are-celebrities offering all kinds of amazing, life changing strategies in less than 300 pages. You have … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Children of Narcissists, anger, Anxiety, Depression, Mental health therapy, narcissism, Suicide, Therapy
Tagged adult children of narcissists, anger, anxiety, Communication, dandy therapy, depression, emotions, men in therapy, mental-health, narcissism, private practice, self employed, therapy
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Therapy is Dandy! 