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Handling Intolerance of Uncertainty

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Counseling, Family Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health

Today more than ever, people display an intolerance of uncertainty to political, religious, societal, climatical, and secular views, beliefs, and behaviors. Many in the American Psychological Association believe mass shooters and people who commit suicide suffer from an inability to tolerate not knowing, or accepting the uncertainties tomorrow might bring. Even when viewpoints and philosophies …

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Preparing Your Child For Summer Camps And In-Person Learning As America Reopens

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Children and Adolescent Counseling, Counseling, Mental Health

Parents nationwide are making big decisions. Some insist their child be “free from a mask mandate”, while others want both their child and teacher masked. Many want a return to full time in-person learning, while others prefer hybrid or distance learning. There is no way to know the rationale behind each parent’s plea. If grandparents …

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How Gaslighting Can Affect Mental Health

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling, Individual Counseling, Mental Health

The attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 has been described by many as a cataclysmic event planned in plain sight. Others describe it as a “moral dilemma”, while others believe it to be the summation of “self-destructive behaviors to escape anxiety”. Regardless of how the event is labeled, it is clear the …

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Fear Of Speaking Up

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling, Therapy

Homogeneity is the quality or state of being all the same or all of the same kind of mind. Many blame the United States’ recent political and social strife on a growing trend toward forced political, socioeconomic, and biodiverse homogeneity. Whether the definition is understood or agreed upon, for the first time in decades, large …

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Schizoid – The Hidden Personality Disorder

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling

Substance abuse, alcohol abuse, uncertain employment, declining school performance, discrimination, spousal abuse, poverty, mass shootings, and the list goes on. Every month for the past year, behavioral and emotional disorders top the list of mental illnesses in the United States and each condition mentioned in the opening lines of this article have directly affected mental …

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