Articles for Wellbeing

One of the most frustrating realities in mental health treatment is this: the people who need care the most are often the ones least likely to complete it. Dropout from therapy, particularly trauma-focused therapy, is a significant clinical problem. Understanding why...

We know a great deal about what happens to people in the aftermath of trauma, the flashbacks, the hypervigilance, the avoidance, the dysregulated emotions, the disrupted sleep. But one of the most important predictors of long-term outcomes is something that happens...

If your job or your degree feels harder for you than it should, the problem might be the conditions, not you. And conditions can be changed. Here is a feeling a lot of people know but rarely name. You are doing the same work as everyone around you. The same job, the...

A psychiatrist asking you to get tested first is not being difficult. They are being careful with you. There is a moment that surprises people. They go to a psychiatrist, fairly sure they have ADHD, half-expecting to walk out with a prescription. Instead of reaching...

People come in afraid of a verdict. What they leave with is something far more useful. There is a particular kind of dread people carry into testing. They imagine it like a courtroom, where they will be assessed, judged, and handed a verdict. A single word that will...

If focusing were simply a matter of focusing, you would have solved this years ago. You have tried. You have tried the apps, the timers, the website blockers. You have tried discipline, willpower, and shame, which is just discipline with the lights off. You have tried...

Everyone assumes you have it handled. That assumption may be the reason no one ever noticed how hard you were working to keep it that way. You are the one with the plan. The color-coded calendar. The shared document everyone else relies on. The friend who remembers...

Two people can both be told they have ADHD. Only one of them was actually assessed. There is a version of getting tested for ADHD that takes about as long as renewing a library card. You answer some questions. You rate yourself on a scale of never to often. Someone...

You can't focus, and you have already decided what that means about you It usually starts in a very ordinary way. You reread the same email three times and still miss the part that mattered. You sit through a meeting, nodding at the right moments, and absorb almost...

It is one of the most common patterns in clinical mental health work: a person with a significant trauma history also struggles with alcohol misuse, prescription medications, or other substances. For years, these were treated as separate problems. The research now...

When most people think of post-traumatic stress disorder, they picture a single, identifiable, a car accident, a natural disaster, injuries during war, or a violent sexual or physical assault. And while single-incident trauma absolutely can lead to a diagnosis of...

Have you ever driven a familiar route and arrived at your destination with almost no memory of the trip? Or found yourself staring at a screen, completely absorbed, with no idea how twenty minutes disappeared? If so, you have experienced a mild form of dissociation,...

Most people treat resilience like a personality trait. Either you have it or you don't. Either you're the type who bounces back, or you're the type who gets stuck. That's not how it works. Resilience is a muscle. Like any muscle, it grows stronger when you train it...

There is a difference between anxiety that is working for you and anxiety that is working against you. In low to moderate levels, anxiety is actually useful. It sharpens your focus, helps you prepare, and motivates you to act. The problem comes when the alarm won't...

Some of the most painful conversations people avoid aren't about illness or loss. They're about what happens after. Who gets the house, who gets the land. How the savings get divided. What did grandmother or grandfather actually want. These conversations sit unspoken...