The title is how I am feeling write now (yes, that was a pun. You may laugh). But sometimes you must do things you don’t want to do in order to gain the motivation to work on other tasks. The idea behind doing an action to gain motivation is called Behavioral Activation, or BA for short. Most people tend to think they will get motivated to do what they want to do, when the opposite is usually...Learn More
You may have heard of the word depression or depressed and noticed that it is used a lot these days. Depression is a common word that often is meant to describe sadness, rejection, feeling down, blue, empty, mentally fatigued, etc. While these can be a way to describe symptoms of depression, depression is way more than that.
Depression is a mood disorder, not just an emotion. For example,...Learn More
You may have noticed that some therapists, counselors, and social workers use a lot of different acronyms. For example, maybe you have seen CBT, DBT, ERP, etc. and you have no idea what that means because they don’t elaborate.
So, what do these acronyms mean and what do they say about the therapeutic approach used by therapists? This post will be the first of a series to describe and explain...Learn More