What techniques can I employ to help deal with crippling anxiety and bug-phobic behaviors until I can afford regular therapy appointments? Ugly details inside - apologies for the length.
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posted by woolly
on Apr 10, 2013 -
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I really need help with being married to -- and raising a young child with -- someone who's living with long-term anger issues, depression, anxiety, and OCD (obsessive fear of doing violent things). I feel alone, sad, exhausted, and in way over my head.
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posted by anonymous
on Oct 15, 2012 -
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Metaintervention: My Mom tries to control everything at the cost of her health and personal relationships. Resistant to therapy. How can I persuade her to see things in a different, more reasonable light?
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posted by aca.int
on Sep 1, 2011 -
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Fellow communication-challenged mefites: how do you work around your communication problems to participate effectively in therapy?
Often I find that regardless of whether I have my thoughts lined up or not, I cannot. get. words. out, as though someone cut the circuit between my brain and my mouth. So far I've had no luck circumventing the issue by writing things down; same problem. It's inhibiting my ability to (a) convey the severity of the problems I'm experiencing and (b) address them adequately if we happen to hit upon relevant topics by chance. TL;DR details inside, but that's the gist -- any suggestions for other work-arounds?
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posted by dorque
on Nov 11, 2010 -
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What might be the implications of getting my 6-year-old daughter assessed by a mental health clinic?
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posted by yawper
on Jul 21, 2010 -
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I'm a male in my early twenties who has washed out of college and is looking for a mental health professional of some sort in Northern Virginia. Issues I feel are likely to come up are my (long-ago diagnosed) attention deficit disorder, depression, and some form of OCD - I have a deep and (likely irrational) fear of psychosis and other impairments of cognition. I am deeply wary of psychiatric drugs, and want to work with someone who shares my attitude toward them, but would recommend them as a last resort. So what I'm after is some sort of talk therapy, preferably with a medical doctor (as oppose to "just" a PhD).
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 13, 2009 -
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I feel intense, acute, brief episodes of shame every day, several times a day. What can I do about them?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 22, 2009 -
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Are there really no side effects to cognitive-behavioral therapy? Has anybody had a bad outcome or weird experience?
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posted by pauldonato
on Jul 4, 2009 -
21 answers
