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Is selective mutism a part of autism? | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Is selective mutism a part of autism? No. They're two different conditions, even though people mix them up all the time. Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder: a child (or adult) talks easily in comfortable places but freezes and can't speak in others, like the classroom, a doctor's office, or ar Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
What childhood trauma causes avoidance? | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
What childhood trauma causes avoidance? There isn't one specific kind. Abuse, neglect, growing up around violence or addiction, losing a parent, a frightening medical experience, or being bullied for years can all teach a child that the safest thing to do is steer clear. That lesson made sense at Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
What are 5 symptoms of GAD? | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
What are 5 symptoms of GAD? 1. Feeling restless, keyed up, or on edge 2. Getting worn out easily 3. Your mind going blank, or struggling to focus 4. Being irritable and short-fused 5. Tight shoulders, a clenched jaw, aches from holding tension There's a sixth too: trouble falling asleep, staying a Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
What is the main cause of panic disorder? | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
What is the main cause of panic disorder? Honest answer: researchers haven't found a single cause. It tends to come from a few things stacking up. Panic and anxiety can run in families. Some people have a more reactive stress response. And a first attack often lands during a rough season, like a lo Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
What causes generalized anxiety? | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
What causes generalized anxiety? There isn't one cause. It's usually a combination of the genes you were born with, the temperament you've always had, and the stress life has put on you. It is not a weakness, and it's not something you brought on yourself. One way to picture it: three layers. The Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
What are the 5 symptoms of major depressive disorder? | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
What are the 5 symptoms of major depressive disorder? Short answer: there's no official list of exactly five. There are nine recognized symptoms, and a clinician looks for at least five of them showing up most days for two weeks or longer. One of them has to be low mood or losing interest in things Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: Symptoms & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
This one is for the friend who apologizes three times in a single text. Does 'can we talk later?' from your boss make your stomach drop? Do you rewrite a simple email five times so nobody could possibly be annoyed? If so, you may find a term useful: rejection sensitive dysphoria, or RSD. People wi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Grief After Suicide Loss: Symptoms & Support | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
There's no right way to grieve someone who died by suicide. Some people want to talk about it constantly. Some can't say the word yet. Some go back to work the next week, and some can't get out of bed for a long time. All of that is part of normal grief. What often makes this loss different is the Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Autistic Burnout in Adults: Signs, Symptoms & Support | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Imagine someone who has held it together for years. Great at work, the friend who remembers birthdays, always 'fine.' Then one winter the energy just goes. Grocery stores become unbearable. Words come slower. A shower feels like a project. If you're an autistic adult, or you suspect you might be, t Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Fear of Cancer Recurrence: Signs & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
The hardest part of cancer, for a lot of people, starts after the last treatment. While you're in it, there's a plan. Appointments, a team, people showing up with casseroles. Then it ends, everyone exhales, and you're left alone with a follow-up schedule and a body you no longer fully trust. A com Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Chronic Illness & Mental Health: Signs and Help | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Something people with chronic illness say a lot: "I don't get to be sad about this. Other people have it worse." You do get to be sad about it. Grieving your old body is not self-pity. It's grief, and it behaves like grief — it comes in waves, it ambushes you in the grocery store, and it doesn't re Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Military Reintegration Stress: Signs & Support | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
For the Georgia military families — the part after the welcome home. A composite that lands for a lot of people: he's been back four months. The homecoming was great. But the house learned to run without him, and now he's standing in his own kitchen unsure where anything goes. His wife handled ever Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Acculturative Stress: Signs, Symptoms & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
A composite, but a familiar one: a woman moves to Gwinnett with her husband and two kids. Everyone says how well she's doing. Three years in, she's getting headaches every afternoon, snapping at her teenager, and crying in the car after work for reasons she can't name. That's acculturative stress. Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Religious Trauma: Signs & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Something we hear a lot, in different words: "I don't know if what happened to me counts." If a church, temple, mosque, or ministry was a place where you were controlled, shamed, or frightened into compliance, your body kept a record of that — the same way it would with any other frightening enviro Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Disenfranchised Grief: Signs & Why It Gets Missed | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If you have ever apologized for how sad you were about something, read this. There is a category of loss that our culture just does not make room for. Grief researchers call it disenfranchised grief. The loss is real, and the world around you acts like it is not. A pet of fourteen years. A miscarr Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Anticipatory Grief: Signs, Symptoms & Support | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Divorce Adjustment: Signs, Stages & Therapy Help | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Eco-Anxiety: Signs, Symptoms & How Therapy Helps | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Codependency: Signs, Causes & Treatment Options | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Postpartum PTSD: Signs, Symptoms & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Pregnancy Loss Grief: Support & Therapy | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Adult Attachment Styles: Signs & Therapy | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Money Anxiety: Signs, Causes & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Empty Nest Syndrome: Signs & Coping | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Retirement Depression: Signs & Help | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Adult Loneliness: Signs & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Explained | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Moral Injury: Signs & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Burnout: Signs, Symptoms & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Infertility and Mental Health Support | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Chronic Pain and Depression Explained | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
"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
Betrayal Trauma: Signs & Recovery | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Anhedonia: When Nothing Feels Good Anymore | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Misophonia: Symptoms, Triggers & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Caregiver Burnout: Signs, Symptoms & Recovery | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Racial Trauma: Signs, Symptoms & Support | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Perimenopause Depression & Mood Changes | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
Complex PTSD: Signs, Symptoms & Treatment | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
If you've had a sudden, terrifying... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
If you've ever pictured catatonia as... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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
If some days your mind won't stop racing... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If some days your mind won't stop racing — and other days feel too heavy to get out of bed — you're not imagining it, and you're not alone. Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental health conditions, and they very often show up together. That's part of why treating only one can leave Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
If school always felt harder for you... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If school always felt harder for you than it seemed to be for everyone else — and you quietly decided you just weren't smart — please read this. Specific Learning Disorder is real, it's brain-based, and it doesn't vanish in adulthood. Reading, writing, or math that stays a struggle no matter the ef Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
They're common in children but stick... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Ever seen a family member walk around or sit up screaming in the night, then have zero memory of it in the morning? That's not them "acting out a dream" — sleepwalking and sleep terrors happen in deep sleep, which is why the memory just isn't there. They're common in children but stick around for s Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Quick one worth passing along:... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Quick one worth passing along: "Hallucinogen Use Disorder" is a real thing, not just a phase. When use of substances like LSD or psilocybin keeps going despite problems at work, at home, or with your own body — cravings, needing more, or perceptual changes that stick around — that's a pattern a prof Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Quick myth-buster, and an important one:... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Quick myth-buster, and an important one: people living with Factitious Disorder are not simply "faking for attention." This is a real and serious mental health condition, one of the most misunderstood there is. Factitious Disorder means a person falsifies, exaggerates, or even brings on physical or Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Schizoid Personality Disorder: Choosing a Solitary Life
Let's clear up one of the most misunderstood conditions in mental health: Schizoid Personality Disorder. It gets confused with shyness or introversion all the time, but it's something distinct. It's a long-standing pattern of detachment from relationships along with limited emotional expression, a r Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Tonight, a gentle word about something... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Tonight, a gentle word about something that often starts in a doctor's office: Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorder. Medications like Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, and prescription sleep aids genuinely help many people, and dependence can still develop, even taken exactly as prescribed. It can Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Here's a condition almost no one talks... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Here's a condition almost no one talks about honestly: Pyromania. The myth is that anyone who deliberately sets fires is just a criminal. The clinical reality is more specific and more human: pyromania is a rare impulse-control disorder involving repeated, deliberate fire setting driven by an irresi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
There's a kind of exhaustion that comes... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
There's a kind of exhaustion that comes from never being able to let your guard down. Paranoid Personality Disorder is a long-standing pattern of deep distrust, assuming others are deceiving or exploiting you even without evidence, doubting the loyalty of the people closest to you, hearing insults h Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Schizoaffective Disorder is one of the... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Schizoaffective Disorder is one of the trickiest diagnoses to get right, because it blends two things people usually think of as separate, and tonight, if it touches your family, please hear the hope in it. It involves psychosis, like hallucinations or delusions, AND a serious mood episode of depres Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Let's bust a harmful myth head-on: being... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Let's bust a harmful myth head-on: being transgender or nonbinary is NOT a disorder or something to fix. What does have a clinical name is the distress some people feel when the gender they were assigned at birth doesn't line up with who they truly are, and that's called Gender Dysphoria. The distin Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Stimulant Use Disorder doesn't always... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Stimulant Use Disorder doesn't always look the way people expect. It can involve cocaine or meth, but it also includes misusing prescription stimulants like Adderall, sometimes starting with the goal of studying harder, working longer, or just keeping up. It's a real medical condition: cravings, usi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
If you've tried to quit smoking or... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If you've tried to quit smoking or vaping over and over and it keeps reeling you back in, please hear this tonight: that is not weakness. Tobacco Use Disorder is a real medical condition, and nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known. It looks like strong cravings, needing more to feel Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Time to bust a painful myth: a clean... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Time to bust a painful myth: a clean scan does NOT mean your symptoms are made up. If your body has done something frightening, a limb going weak, tremors, seizures, losing your voice, and every test comes back normal, you may have heard the worst sentence in medicine: it's all in your head. Please Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Let's clear up a word that trips people... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Let's clear up a word that trips people up, because antisocial does NOT mean shy, introverted, or a homebody. Antisocial Personality Disorder is a clinical condition: a long-standing pattern of disregarding and violating the rights of others. It can look like repeated rule-breaking, lying or conning Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
If you're watching someone you love... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If you're watching someone you love slowly change, forgetting recent conversations, getting lost on familiar roads, searching for everyday words, please hear this tonight. Major Neurocognitive Disorder, what most of us know as dementia, is a real decline in memory and thinking serious enough to disr Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Quick myth-buster: narcolepsy is NOT... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Quick myth-buster: narcolepsy is NOT just being sleepy or unmotivated. It's a neurological condition where the brain struggles to keep the line between sleep and wakefulness steady. People can be hit with crushing daytime sleepiness, fall asleep mid-conversation, or suddenly go weak in the knees whe Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
There's a real difference between being... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
There's a real difference between being a little shy and living with Avoidant Personality Disorder. With AvPD, the fear of being judged, criticized, or rejected runs so deep that a person turns down promotions, skips gatherings, and holds back even from the people they love, all because they feel fu Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
If you've ever felt strangely detached —... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If you've ever felt strangely detached — like you're floating outside yourself watching your own life, or like the world has gone foggy and dreamlike and 'unreal' — and it keeps happening, please know two things. One: it has a name, Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder. Two: you are not losing y Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Quick clarification that surprises a lot... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Quick clarification that surprises a lot of people: OCD and OCPD are NOT the same thing. OCD is driven by intrusive thoughts and compulsions a person desperately wishes would stop. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is a lifelong pattern of perfectionism, rigidity, and need for control Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Bulimia Nervosa is one of the most... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Bulimia Nervosa is one of the most hidden eating disorders, because a person can be at a perfectly 'normal' weight and still be seriously ill. It's a cycle: episodes of binge eating with a feeling of being out of control, followed by behaviors meant to 'undo' it — vomiting, laxatives, fasting, or co Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Do your moods swing for years — up into... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Do your moods swing for years — up into bursts of energy and confidence, then down into low, heavy stretches — but never quite "enough" to look like full bipolar episodes? That pattern has a name: Cyclothymic Disorder. It's a chronic mood condition (2+ years) of cycling highs and lows that can quiet Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
"The tests all came back normal, so it's... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
"The tests all came back normal, so it's all in your head." If you've heard that, this is for you. Somatic Symptom Disorder is when real, distressing physical symptoms — pain, fatigue, stomach trouble — come with disproportionate worry and a huge amount of time and energy spent on health concerns. T Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is one of the most misunderstood and sensationalized diagnoses — Hollywood gets it almost entirely wrong. DID is a trauma-based condition, almost always rooted in severe, repeated childhood trauma. It involves two or more distinct identity states plus gaps in mem Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Schizophrenia Is Not a Split Personality: Common Myths
Let's clear up one of the most stigmatized diagnoses there is. Schizophrenia is NOT a "split personality," and people living with it are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it. It's a brain-based condition involving episodes of psychosis — hallucinations, delusions, disorg Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
If someone you love can't part with... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If someone you love can't part with things — to the point where rooms can't be used, relationships strain, and shame keeps the door closed to visitors — please know this isn't laziness or "being messy." Hoarding Disorder is a recognized mental health condition involving genuine distress at discardin Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Alcohol Use Disorder isn't about... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Alcohol Use Disorder isn't about willpower or just "drinking too much on weekends." It's a medical condition defined by 11 DSM-5 criteria — drinking more than you intended, failed attempts to cut back, cravings, and continuing despite harm to health, work, or relationships. Mild is 2-3 criteria, sev Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Specific phobias aren't quirky — for the... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Specific phobias aren't quirky — for the person living with them, they shrink life in real ways. People miss weddings because they can't fly. They put off cancer screenings because of needle phobia. They avoid jobs that involve elevators. Here's the good news: graded exposure therapy works, often in Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Some people don't get crashes — they get... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Some people don't get crashes — they get a slow leak. Persistent Depressive Disorder (used to be called Dysthymia) is a low-grade depression that runs in the background for years. Folks with PDD often think 'this is just how I am.' It isn't. Therapy and medication help, sometimes dramatically. If yo Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
BPD has a stigma problem. People with... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
BPD has a stigma problem. People with Borderline Personality Disorder are often described as 'too much' when really they have intense emotional sensitivity and didn't get the regulation skills as kids. Here's the hopeful part: DBT — Dialectical Behavior Therapy — is genuinely life-changing for peopl Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
If antidepressants alone keep failing or... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If antidepressants alone keep failing or sending someone you love into a 'too much' phase — racing thoughts, less sleep, big plans, big spending — it might not be depression. It might be Bipolar II. Getting the right diagnosis changes the treatment plan completely. Mood stabilizers plus therapy like Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
If a new mom in your life has stopped... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
If a new mom in your life has stopped texting back, isn't lighting up around the baby, or quietly says 'I just feel nothing' — please don't brush it off as 'baby blues.' Postpartum Depression affects about 1 in 7 birthing parents and can show up anytime in the first year. It's treatable — therapy (I Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Quick PSA: OCD is wildly misunderstood. It's not being neat. It's not double-checking the stove once. It's intrusive thoughts that won't leave plus compulsions that eat hours of your day and bring no relief. The treatment that actually works is called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — it's a Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Quick reframe: 'narcissist' gets thrown around as an insult, but Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a real, diagnosable condition — and underneath the grandiosity is usually a painfully fragile sense of self. It shows up as entitlement, a need for admiration, trouble with empathy, and big reaction Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Anorexia Nervosa is one of the most... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Anorexia Nervosa is one of the most dangerous mental health conditions there is — and one of the most misunderstood. It's not vanity or a 'phase.' It's a brain-based illness marked by food restriction, an intense fear of weight gain, and a distorted body image — and a person does NOT have to look un Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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If something hard happened to you — a car wreck, a loss, an assault, a medical scare, a tough birth — and you're still living with flashbacks, jumpy nerves, or a body that won't let you rest a year later, that's worth paying attention to. PTSD is a real diagnosis with real treatments. EMDR and CPT h Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Quick question — do you know the... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder gets missed... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Body Dysmorphic Disorder gets missed constantly — sometimes for years. It's a preoccupation with a perceived flaw in appearance (that others don't see, or barely notice) plus compulsive checking, comparing, or trying to fix it. It's not vanity. It causes deep distress. CBT adapted specifically for B Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Quick question to sit with: do you spend hours each week researching symptoms, scheduling 'just-in-case' appointments, or checking your body for signs of serious illness — and never feel reassured for long? That can be Illness Anxiety Disorder (the modern name for what was once called hypochondriasi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Agoraphobia isn't just 'fear of going outside' — it's intense fear of being in places where escape or help would be hard if panic hit. Buses, grocery stores, crowded sidewalks, even being far from home alone. It often shows up alongside Panic Disorder, and it's deeply isolating. Here's the kind thin Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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If for one to two weeks every single month you become a person you barely recognize — rage, despair, anxiety, then it lifts when your period starts — that's not 'bad PMS,' it's likely Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), and it's a real DSM-5 diagnosis. CBT, SSRIs (sometimes only during the lutea Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Question: Have you spent so many years... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
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Real talk: Borderline Personality... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Real talk: Borderline Personality Disorder gets dismissed and stigmatized constantly — and that stigma keeps people from getting care that actually works. BPD involves intense emotions, fear of abandonment, unstable sense of self, and impulsive patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was develo Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Grief doesn't have a schedule, but when... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Grief doesn't have a schedule, but when it's been a year or more and the loss still feels like it just happened — when you can't move forward, when daily life still feels impossible — that's now recognized as Prolonged Grief Disorder. It's a real diagnosis, and there's a specific therapy (Complicate Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Quick PSA: 'I'm so OCD' usually isn't OCD. Real Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is intrusive thoughts that won't leave (often about harm, contamination, or things being 'just right') paired with rituals to make the thoughts go away — and the cycle takes over hours of the day. It is not a quirky person Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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If you've spent years feeling like everyone else got a 'how to adult' manual you never received — chronically late, drowning in unfinished tasks, hyper-focused on the wrong thing, emotionally swingy — that's not a moral failing. Adult ADHD shows up exactly like that, and it's diagnosable and treatab Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Tonight, a gentle nudge. If walking into a waiting room, meeting a new therapist face-to-face, or 'being seen' feels like the very thing keeping you from getting help — that's exactly why we offer telehealth. Social Anxiety Disorder is treatable (CBT with gradual exposure is strongly evidence-backed Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
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Quick myth-busting: depression isn't a bad mood, and 'just be positive' isn't a treatment. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a real, diagnosable condition — two weeks or more of persistent low mood or loss of interest, plus things like changes in sleep, appetite, and energy. Behavioral activation a Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
Worry that won't shut off — even when... | Georgia Telehealth Therapy
Worry that won't shut off — even when there's no real reason — is a clinical sign of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), not a personality flaw. Folks with GAD often deal with muscle tension, restlessness, and trouble sleeping for 6+ months at a time. The good news? CBT and mindfulness-based therapy Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth
