When people think about depression, they often divide it into one of two things—either clinical depression which requires treatment or “regular” depression that pretty much anyone can go through. As a condition, depression can be a difficult concept to...
Your response to trauma won’t always look the same as someone else’s. Your experiences — and how long or how often you went through them — can all impact trauma symptoms later in life. Living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) might mean behaving...
What Is Codependency? Codependency in a relationship is when each person involved is mentally, emotionally, physically, and/or spiritually reliant on the other. A codependent relationship can exist between romantic partners, but also with family members and friends....
The term “self-awareness” seems self-explanatory—it’s an awareness of the self. But what does that even mean? And why would so many self-help gurus need to preach about the importance of such an obvious concept? Simple as it may be, self-awareness is something that...
