Relationships
What Is Gaslighting And How To Identify It
What is gaslighting? Are you being gaslighted? Gaslighting is most common in romantic relationships, but it can happen in any kind of relationship where there
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Articles By Mindy Fox, LMFT
Relationships
5 Reasons Why Relationships Are Hard and Require Commitment To Succeed
When you’re flirting with a potential love interest, you’re dazzled by why relationships are wonderful, not cautioned by why relationships are hard. So what if
Trauma
How Trauma Affects Relationships Long After The Experience
If you have trauma in your background, you may find that your relationships are adversely affected. How trauma affects relationships is related to your unique
Depression
What Depression Does To Your Body And How To Overcome It
Depression causes you to have low mood, leaving you irritable and feeling persistently hopeless and helpless. What depression does to your body is something that
Relationships
How Relationships Affect Happiness Both Positively And Negatively
Happiness. It’s a feeling, an art and even a science. And relationships are often mentioned when happiness is discussed. Since relationships are complex, how relationships
Relationships
Can Emotional Abuse Make You Sick? Yes, And Here’s How
you into subservience. At first, they entrap you with intense romance. Then they slowly isolate you so you become more and more dependent on them.
Relationships
What Codependency Looks Like In A Dating Relationship
What codependency looks like is when one person slowly becomes much too dependent on the other person. Over time, one person takes too much responsibility
Depression
9 Reasons Why Depression Is Hard To Understand
Explaining why depression is hard to understand to those who don’t experience it is like explaining childbirth to fathers. Its all-consuming nature is grossly misunderstood,
Trauma
What Are Trauma Triggers And How To Identify Yours
You may be wondering, “what are trauma triggers”? You may have heard about it, but aren’t clear about what a trigger really means. Trauma is
Relationships
What Emotional Abuse Feels Like When It Starts
It’s not always easy to tell at the beginning of a relationship if it will become emotionally abusive. Naturally, you want to know what emotional
Anxiety
Are Anxiety And Depression Treatable? Yes, And Here’s Where To Start
When you’re feeling inexplicably sad or chronically worried, life may seem too dark to see a bright side. Are anxiety and depression treatable? The answer
Relationships
How Codependency Ruins Relationships Before You Even Know
If you’ve ever been called a codependent before, learning how codependency ruins relationships is a very important issue to look into. It’s not that codependents
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