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    • Existential Issues
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      • Depression Resources
    • Anxiety Treatment
      • Teen Anxiety Symptoms
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  • About
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 minion called anxiety.

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    How does anxiety look like to you? Do you feel it in certain areas of the body? If you were to condense it into 5 words, what would they be? This video by Jeffrey Lewis sings about how anxiety feels like for him. Be well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYDcAsahXYVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: anxiety attack – jeffrey lewis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYDcAsahXY)

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  • A late introduction, late at night

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    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 painful it is. I know a lot about mental health as I’ve been around it for quite a while; I struggled with it for a long time in childhood. Family members, friends, and people I see in my practice. I know its’ many faces and the different shapes it takes to deceive you and hurt you. I know about the fear, isolation, and loneliness, the emptiness, anxiety, and the deep darkness that comes with it. Because I know so much,…

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  • Faces of depression

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    Depression has many faces and they are all different from one person to the next. Still, the emotions we experience are universal, to various degrees. A video about depression and a wonderful description that some might relate to by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYcVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: I had a black dog, his name was depression (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYc) If asked how to put depression into my own words; it would be this; with depression; you don’t see what’s around you. One day it’s summer and the next it’s winter and you ask yourself how the hell did I get here? I don’t remember fall. It’s a painful wandering of the mind…

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    Diana Pitaru

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  • 9 Easy to Spot Depression Signs + Depression Test

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    What depression is and isn’t. Feeling sad, unhappy, or getting “the blues” are not the same as depression. I want to be clear here, depression is not something to feel ashamed about, nor is it a sign of weakness. Depression is a clinical term that describes a very serious issue, an umbrella encompassing a wide variety of symptoms that must be present for a specific period of time and with various degrees of intensity. If you or someone you know experience some or all of the depression signs and symptoms below for more than a few weeks on a consistent basis, seek professional help. I am guessing you didn’t come…

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    Diana Pitaru

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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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