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Understanding Depression: Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment

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

Introduction Depression is more than feeling sad after a difficult day. Everyone experiences periods of sadness, disappointment, stress, or low energy, but depression can persist and begin to interfere with how a person thinks, feels, behaves, and manages everyday life. It can affect sleep, appetite, concentration, relationships, work, school, and interest in activities that once …

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Breaking the Cycle of Feeling Invisible: The Hidden Toll on Mental Health

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling, Depression, Individual Counseling

Feeling invisible, unseen, or unheard can happen in the home, the workplace, a classroom, a doctor’s office, social settings, or when supervising a team of subordinates. Middle children, very young children, women, victims of bullying, religious and racial minorities, the obese, the soft-spoken, and men short in statue often experience invisibility, “the inability to be seen …

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The Truth Heals

Posted by Improving Lives Counseling Services, Inc. | Counseling

“How do we tell the truth and make that truth bearable,” a quote from an interview with author Kate DiCamillo discussing “Charlotte’s Web” by E. B. White. She went on to say, “E.B. White loved the world. And in loving the world, he told the truth about it – its sorrow, its heartbreak, its devastating …

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Want to Live a Happier Life? Stop Doing These 5 Things

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

It’s great to have long-term goals for self-improvement. But sometimes those long-term goals can feel so, well, long-term. So, don’t just think about where you want to be five or 10 years from now; ask yourself what’s getting in the way of making your life better right at this moment? Sure, there are some things …

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