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The individuals searching for psychotherapy vs counseling are not seeking answers to a quiz.

What are you supposed to tell someone you love when there's nothing you can say to make things any better?

A person with a broken leg does not heal faster by deciding to feel better. Yet that is essentially what we ask of people with depression when we tell them to think more positively.

Why do you carry the pain of another person long after they have departed? If you work in the helping profession or are just passionate about people in trouble, you can understand the weight.

Mary Oliver once asked what you plan to do with your one wild and precious life, and for a lot of people, figuring out how often you should go to therapy is quietly part of answering that question.

When one person in a family is struggling, the instinct is to focus on that person. Family therapy starts from a different premise entirely: that the person struggling is expressing something the whole system is carrying.

John Donne once wrote that love "makes one little room an everywhere," and most couples know exactly what he meant, in the good seasons.

Depression gets written about almost entirely from the inside. What it feels like. What it does to motivation, sleep, and the ability to get off the couch.

You may forget to text back because you get distracted. Managing ADHD can be challenging when someone is also dealing with insecure attachment.