Category: Confessions of a therapist

Lose anxiety, find purpose

Finding Purpose

When I was in the middle of my MBA program and working full time. Everyone around me seemed to think I had it all going for me . . . but I was unhappy. Yeah, I was getting extremely good grades and was recognized by the dean as outstanding… but I was MISERABLE. I sought…
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October 19, 2013 0

Marital Issues

I pray this is more of an encouragement to clients facing marital issues but take it for what it is worth. A dear doctor friend of mine who is five decades older than I am, said this to me weeks before my wedding, “now you have probably heard that marriage isn’t easy, well, it isn’t…
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September 11, 2013 0

Phobias

Yeah, the statue of liberty and other statues did it for me…then I had a fear of the moon…(shaking my head) a lot of these fears came out of the blue and left just the way they came. But some others I had, such as the fear of heights and really tall buildings, started as…
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August 21, 2013 0

OCD

I totally remember being in the movie theater when it happened… “Did you turn off the stove?” Oh no! Not again…please no! NO! The previews had just finished playing and the movie was to begin at any moment but, Yeah … you guessed it! I drove back home to check and guess what…The stove was…
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August 19, 2013 0