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  • Home
  • Services
    • Existential Issues
    • Psychoanalytic Treatment
      • Depression Resources
    • Anxiety Treatment
      • Teen Anxiety Symptoms
  • Blog
  • What to Expect
    • New to therapy?
    • FAQ
    • Therapy Cost
  • About
    • My Therapy Approach
    • My background
    • My Therapy Clients
  • Contact

Do you //feel//?

Our feelings are like weather patterns. They are changeable and act on the environment with great power. They inform and distract with their intensity. They reflect the nature of the…

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July 11

Want to be happy?

Happiness is a similar concept to that of the key to the meaning of life; we actively seek it and are willing to go to the depths of our strength…

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February 11

Understand yourself: Your relationship with sex matters.

Our culture has an interestingly bizarre, confusion-laden relationship with sex. While teens are expected to “just say no” the average adult struggles to come to a resolution and find a…

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March 23

Others: the fear that keeps us caged.

It seems that everyone I meet fears “others”: what “others” might say, or think, or how they will judge us. I think we’re socialized to have this fear. Not everyone…

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November 26

Understand Yourself: Feeling like a fraud?

Feeling-like-a-fraud is a shared sentiment amongst most people. We all, at one point or another, feel like we’re not really all that we are trying to portray. As if the…

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March 27

The inner critic: “you can’t”, “you’re not good enough”, you’re it!

I’ve been reading a string of articles lately on the PsychCentral’s website (here and here) about the inner critic and some ways in which to deal with it.The notion of…

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November 15

A late introduction, late at night

I care deeply about mental health. Yes, I’m a shrink so the interest comes with the territory, but it’s not just that. I get mental health and how debilitating and…

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November 16
  • “Walking in my shoes”

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    Often, you feel so misunderstood or not understood at all. Others might have more ardent issues than you do, and this is not a game of comparison “who has it the worst”. Your issues feel like they hurt more, because they are yours and you can feel them. We try to put ourselves in other people’s shoes and we can get it; but not entirely and never fully. Still, you do know how emotions feel like to you. Enjoy this Depeche Mode song! “Try walking in my shoes You’ll stumble in my footsteps.”

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    Diana Pitaru

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  • A random thought on dealing with emotions

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    We respond well to emotions, particularly if they’re not ours. We enjoy watching movies, reading books, and listening to music because in them, we can find a familiarity that is removed from the personal. We use escapism when we convince ourselves that it’s easier and more doable to empathize with ourselves if we witness those emotions experienced by other people first. We are entranced by emotions yet we find it hard to be comfortable with our own feelings. It simply feels easier to relate through watching others; this way, we feel as though we don’t have to deal with them on our own. Suppressing and repressing emotions. In a way,…

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    Diana Pitaru

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  • Tangles

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    Diana Pitaru

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  • Vulnerability in creativity

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    Creating from a place of vulnerability and raw emotions gives your creative endeavor the main ingredient of connecting with yourself and the ones exposed to your work. Vulnerability is strength and courage, particularly in the creative process, because that’s where we store the hard lessons of life, our failures and mistakes from which we can learn to improve; it is the most fragile part of ourselves and yet it holds the answers to the difficulties we keep running into over and over again for which we think there is no solution.

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Highlights

Podcast interview: (US) Pillow Talk: The Psychology of Erotica with artist and therapist Diana Pitaru

PsychCentral interview: Clinicians on the Couch: 10 Questions with Therapist Diana Pitaru

Podcast interview: (UK) My Perfect Failure: Failure and The Unconscious with Diana Pitaru

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