How do psychologists in Atlanta help clients with emotional distress caused by chronic illness?
A diagnosis that does not go away rearranges a person’s whole relationship with their own body. The body that used to be a reliable home becomes…
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A diagnosis that does not go away rearranges a person’s whole relationship with their own body. The body that used to be a reliable home becomes…
Somewhere in the second year of caring for a parent with dementia, a daughter notices she has stopped being able to feel much of anything. The…
One of the cruelest features of emotional abuse is that it leaves no marks anyone can point to, including the person who lived through it. There…
Getting out is supposed to be the end of the story. In practice, it is closer to the start of a different one. Many people leave…
A daughter sets three alarms through the night to turn her father so he does not develop sores, and by morning she cannot remember whether she…
People who were neglected as children often arrive in therapy unable to say what is wrong. There was no violence to point to, no single scene…
Someone puts on a show they used to love, settles in, and twenty minutes later realizes they have felt nothing the whole time. They were not…
By the time work anxiety is called severe, it has usually stopped being something a person can push through. A worker leaves a meeting and locks…
Getting out is the part everyone congratulates. The harder, quieter chapter starts afterward, once the relationship is over and a person expects to feel free and…
An adult comes to therapy describing problems that do not seem to attach to any clear event: a constant background sense of being unsafe, difficulty trusting…
Someone closes a deal they have wanted for two years, and within an hour the satisfaction has drained out and the mind is already on the…
The fight is over, the house is quiet, and a person sits in the aftermath of their own words, watching a partner’s face close off again,…
By the end of an ordinary day a person can feel scraped clean, not from any single hard task but from a hundred small efforts to…
A person reaches an age or a milestone they had quietly marked as a deadline, and the thing they expected to have by now is not…
A grown adult with a career and a household of their own can still feel like a guilty teenager the moment a parent’s name lights up…
A medical scare lands, or a job ends, or a hard night stretches long, and a person reaches mentally for who to call and finds the…
Three weeks after the move, the boxes are mostly unpacked, the new commute is figured out, and a person finds themselves standing in a kitchen that…
A slightly odd headache at 11 p.m. becomes, within twenty minutes of searching, a probable brain tumor. The search was meant to bring relief and instead…
For fifteen years the answer to “what do you do” came easily, and then a layoff erased it, and now the question at a dinner party…
Some people are still serving a sentence for something that happened years or decades ago. The original event might have been a genuine wrong, or a…
The divorce is final, the paperwork is filed, and friends have started saying things like “you must be relieved it’s over.” But the person they are…
The job a person wanted is theirs, the move they planned is done, the relationship has ended the way they decided it should, and yet they…
The first few weeks feel like a long-deserved vacation. Then a Tuesday arrives with nothing on it, no meetings, no one needing a decision, no reason…
A veteran sits in a first appointment having waited years to make it, partly because asking for help cut against everything training had reinforced about handling…
A person can be deeply loved in the present and still wake each morning braced for the day their partner leaves. The relationship gives no evidence…