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For anyone taking care of a parent right now. There is a kind of grief that starts long before the funeral, and almost nobody prepares you for it. You lose the phone calls. You lose their opinion on things. You lose being someone's kid. All while they are still alive and you are still managing thei Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Friendly reminder for anyone in the middle of a separation right now: you are not behind schedule. There is a strange expectation that once the paperwork is done, you should be fine. Meanwhile the actual hard stretch tends to start after everyone stops checking on you. Around month four or five. Wh Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
If you have ever closed a weather app and felt your chest tighten, this one is for you. Eco-anxiety is the name for distress about climate and environmental change. It is not weakness and it is not a failure of perspective. It usually shows up as dread that will not switch off, guilt attached to sm Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Here is a conversation I wish more people got to have. Someone tells you they are the responsible one in the family. The one who gets the call at midnight, handles the paperwork, smooths things over. Everyone praises them for it. And privately they are running on empty and feel guilty for even noti Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
A thing that does not get said enough: a hard birth can leave a trauma response, not just a low mood. Postpartum depression and postpartum PTSD get talked about like they are one condition. They are not. PTSD after birth usually traces back to something that happened in the room. An emergency trans Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Nobody sent flowers. That is the part that keeps coming up. After a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or a loss early enough that most people never knew, the grief is real and the rituals are missing. There is no service. Coworkers do not know. Someone says at least you know you can get pregnant, and mean Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Myth: if money stresses you out, you need a better budget. Plenty of people with a solid budget and money in savings still feel a jolt of dread opening a banking app. Meanwhile plenty of people under genuine financial strain are not anxious in the clinical sense at all. Those are two different thin Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
You are not "too much." You are also not "bad at relationships." There is a decent chance you are describing an attachment pattern, and those are learnable. Attachment insecurity is the template you built early for what closeness costs. It runs quietly underneath adult relationships. Anxious patter Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
To everyone who just dropped a kid off at college or watched one move into their first apartment: The quiet is loud, isn't it. Empty nest adjustment gets treated like a punchline, and that's a shame, because for a lot of parents it's a genuine grief. Not because anything bad happened. Because eigh Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Here's a myth that hurts people: retirement is supposed to be the happy part, so if you're struggling with it, something's wrong with you. Not true, and honestly it keeps a lot of folks from saying anything. What we actually see: about three to six months after the party, things get quiet in a way Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Something worth knowing on a Thursday morning. The U.S. Surgeon General put out an advisory in 2023 on loneliness and social connection. The findings were blunt: being socially disconnected is linked to a 29 percent higher risk of heart disease and 32 percent higher risk of stroke, with effects on Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
If you or someone you love spent time in an ICU, please read this. Surviving critical illness can leave marks that have nothing to do with the original diagnosis. There's a name for it: Post-Intensive Care Syndrome. It shows up as new or worsening problems in three areas at once, thinking, mood, an Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Question for anyone who works in healthcare, emergency services, education, or child welfare: Have you ever done exactly what you were supposed to do, followed every rule, and still felt like you'd done something unforgivable? That has a name. It's called moral injury, and it's not the same as PTS Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Can we talk about burnout for a second? Not the joking kind, the real kind. The WHO describes occupational burnout in three parts: bone-deep exhaustion, growing cynicism toward your job, and the feeling that you're no longer good at something you used to be good at. If two of those three sound like Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
There's no funeral. No casserole. No card. And the loss arrives again every month. Infertility gets treated as a medical problem with a medical timeline. What rarely gets addressed is what it does to a person's inner life — the two-week waits, the appointments scheduled around work you can't explai Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
"The pain is real. But your labs came back fine." If you've heard some version of that, you already know how isolating chronic pain gets. What often goes unsaid in those appointments: pain and mood run on overlapping circuitry. Living with persistent pain raises the risk of depression, and depressi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Some wounds aren't about what happened. They're about who it happened with. Betrayal trauma is what can develop when the person who hurt you is someone you depended on — a partner, a parent, a close friend, sometimes an institution you trusted. The source of the injury and the source of safety were Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Not sadness. Just… nothing. Anhedonia is the loss of pleasure or interest in things that used to matter — music that no longer moves you, food that tastes like cardboard, friends you can't summon the energy to text back. People usually describe it as flatness rather than pain. That's part of why i Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Chewing. Pen clicking. Heavy breathing. For some people, these aren't just annoying — they set off genuine distress. Misophonia is a strong emotional and physical reaction to specific repeated sounds. It isn't being dramatic or oversensitive. Current research points to differences in how the brain Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
You can love someone deeply and still be running on empty. Caregiver burnout builds slowly — the appointments, the medication schedules, the nights you sleep with one ear open. It rarely announces itself. It shows up as exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix, irritability that surprises you, and a creep Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Some weeks, the exhaustion isn't about your job or your sleep. Race-based traumatic stress is what happens when discrimination, microaggressions, and the weight of what you see accumulate in the body. Researchers describe symptoms that overlap with PTSD: hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, emotiona Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
Myth: "I'm too old to suddenly develop depression." Reality: the years leading up to menopause are one of the highest-risk windows for mood changes in a woman's life — and most people are never told that. Perimenopause can start in your late thirties or forties and last for years. As estrogen fluc Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
If you've been told you have PTSD but the description never quite fit, there may be a reason. Complex PTSD develops from prolonged, repeated trauma — childhood neglect, long-term abuse, chronic instability — rather than a single event. Alongside the flashbacks and hypervigilance people associate wi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
If you've had a sudden, terrifying thought about something bad happening to your baby — and it left you shaken, ashamed, and afraid to say it out loud — please hear this: having the thought does not mean you want it to happen. Intrusive, unwanted, scary thoughts during pregnancy and after birth are Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
If you've ever pictured catatonia as someone frozen in place forever, you're not alone — but that image misses the truth. Catatonia isn't a permanent state, and it isn't "just shutting down." It's a real, recognized syndrome where movement and responsiveness get disrupted. Sometimes that looks like Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #Podcast
