Conditions
Understanding Complex PTSD: Symptoms and Treatment
June is PTSD Awareness Month, an ideal time to explore complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). Unlike PTSD, CPTSD stems from prolonged trauma and has unique symptoms and impacts. Learn about CPTSD’s causes, effects, and strategies for healing and managing this challenging condition.
Lesser-Known Symptoms of PTSD
June is PTSD Awareness Month, an ideal time to explore PTSD beyond common symptoms like flashbacks and nightmares. PTSD affects millions, with subtler symptoms impacting daily life. Discover these lesser-known signs and gain insight into effective treatments and support.
Burnout at Work: Prevention, Coping Skills and Treatment
Burnout is long-term stress that causes emotional exhaustion and depletion of someone’s psychological and physical health. Someone experiencing burnout may feel constantly drained, negative, cynical, and alienated. Feelings of burnout can cause someone to be less productive at work or in their personal life. Unfortunately, many people experience burnout at some point in their lives. […]
June is PTSD Awareness Month. Here’s What You Need to Know
June is PTSD Awareness Month, highlighting the need to educate and support those affected by PTSD. Originating from military contexts, PTSD affects millions from various traumas. The month aims to reduce stigma, promote understanding, and encourage seeking effective, evidence-based treatments with Grow.
Why Do I Feel Numb? Understanding Emotional Blunting
The experience of emotional numbness can feel very lonely, like you’re the only one experiencing it, but in truth, it’s pretty common. Here’s everything you need to know about emotional blunting, what causes it, and how to manage it.
A Guide to Understanding Anxiety Triggers and Coping Strategies
Feeling overwhelmed with fear and worry may indicate you struggle with anxiety, which affects 40 million American adults. Identifying triggers like caffeine or social interactions is crucial to navigating the disorder. Let’s take a look at the different coping strategies, including seeking professional help with Grow Therapy.
Avolition: How to Overcome the Feeling of No Desire to Do Anything
Learn about avolition, a feeling of severe lack of motivation linked to mental health issues like depression and schizophrenia, and explore its symptoms, causes, and effective strategies for diagnosis, management, and treatment.
Generational Trauma: Causes, Signs and How to Heal
The saying, “Hurt people hurt people,” albeit very simplistic, is a short way of summing up generational trauma. When you’re affected by something that happened to your parents, because they’re affected by something that happened to their parents, and so on, you potentially have yourself a sad recipe for generational trauma. Until that pattern is […]
A Therapist’s Guide to Overcoming Procrastination
Did you know that 20% of adults deal with some form of procrastination? The irony of procrastination is that although it gives us a brief escape from our responsibilities, this temporary relief only compounds stress for our future selves. Time begins to slip through our fingers like tiny grains of sand as we settle into […]
Understanding Repression and How it Differs from Suppression
Emotions are an integral part of the human experience. They shape our perceptions, decisions, and interactions with the world. Sometimes, however, our minds choose to block out certain emotions and memories altogether as a method of self-defense. This phenomenon is known as emotional repression. Repression, a psychological defense mechanism first identified by Sigmund Freud, involves […]