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Is Now The Time to Recommit to Healing?
Have you ever spent hours shoveling snow, only to wake up the next day and see a fresh, new layer covering your driveway? Or written a marvelous paper and forgotten to save your work? How about when your plate of freshly baked cookies goes missing and your dog has a guilty look on their face?…
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Can 2021 Be A Fresh Start?
Here we are, in the final days of 2020. This year has been trying and anything but normal, and it’s safe to say most of us are ready to leave it behind. But the reality is, the pandemic won’t magically end as the clock strikes midnight. So what can we do to have the new…
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Let’s Stop Pretending to be Okay
I know we’re all tired of hearing the term “COVID-19”, but here we are still dealing with the way the world changed because of it. The bad news slowed down some, but the good news isn’t coming fast enough. More than ever in most of our lifetimes, we are faced with the need to find…
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Maneuvering the Covid School Year
This school year is a little different. What will this school year be like? This is something a lot of parents have been considering for the past few weeks. At this point, school is under way for most. Choices have been made, technology for virtual schooling is on board, protocols for in-person schooling are in…
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Aha Moments in Mental Health
Have you ever had an Aha moment? One in which you gained a long-awaited insight or figured out the answer to a question that had been long evading you? Just like other medical practitioners, mental health therapists sometimes get stumped in figuring out how exactly to help a client, and we too have our aha…
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Common Symptoms of ADHD
Is ADHD real? Is it over-diagnosed? Is it mis-diagnosed? Can an adult be diagnosed with ADHD? Or is ADHD only diagnosed in kids? Do kids grow out of it? How do I get an accurate diagnosis? Why should I care about any of this? Symptoms Here are some common symptoms of ADHD*: Difficulty staying focused…
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Addressing Drug and Alcohol Use with a Teenager
Two parents have asked similar questions about teenage drug and alcohol use, and I’ll address them both in this Q&A 1. My 15 year old son just started in high school this year. He has always been a good student, but this year his grades have dropped and he is hanging around with friends…
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What “Should” Moms do on Mother’s Day?
Sleep in Have breakfast in bed Go back to sleep Wake up around noon, to the sounds of laundry being done and dinner being made Hang out Have leftovers for lunch Take a nap Wake up and go for a nice long walk Read Read some more while you wait for dinner Eat dinner Watch…
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Internet-Induced Trauma after Boston Marathon Shootings
Hello Dr. Nagpal, Last week, after the Boston Marathon bombings, I became complete engrossed with the “who done it” aspect of the story. I followed along on Reddit.com’s “FindBostonBombers” forum, where users posted picture after picture of the scene, looking for people who came with backpacks and left without. Many pictures were post explosion, and…
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Home for the Holidays … and Beyond
It’s been nice having our 18-year old back home for the holidays. I am also acutely aware that the pain of parting is in my near future. Christmas is traditionally the time in the United States when many young adults travel home for the holidays — whether it be from college or from the place…