How To Handle Dysfunctional Family Members
Many of us have family members whose values and/or behavior are questionable. They maybe heavy drinkers, religious fanatics, sexual...
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Alexandra Massey
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How Can A Dysfunctional Family Affect A Child?
What Is a Dysfunctional Family? As children of dysfunctional families we thought our life was terrible and that we’d had the worst...
Alexandra Massey
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How Does Anxiety Affect Sex?
Suffering from a general anxiety disorder can crank up your stress levels, hold back your career and create problems in social settings...
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Anxiety Symptoms?
Have you ever had that split second moment when you wake up in the morning, full of zest for life, only to realize how temporary that...
Alexandra Massey
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Help, I Have Severe Depression
This article is a follow up to the depression test you can take here: Depression Test Severe Depression I’m so glad you submitted your...
Alexandra Massey
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I Suffer From Moderate Depression
This article is a follow up to the depression test you can take here: Depression Test Moderate Depression I’m so glad you submitted your...
Alexandra Massey
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I Suffer From Mild Depression
Mild Depression Do you suffer from mild depression? The good news is that, so do many people from time to time. I’m always relieved when...
Alexandra Massey
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I'm Not Depressed But I'm Not Happy
It seems that you’re probably not depressed but you may be feeling a bit low. The good news is that, so does everyone else from time to...
Alexandra Massey
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Am I Depressed? Take The Depression Test
Depression is so common that it’s sometimes referred to ‘the common cold’ of mental health. Unlike a common cold, suffering from...
Alexandra Massey
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Are Anxiety Attack And Panic Attack The Same Thing?
Are Anxiety Attack And Panic Attack The Same? You may have heard the term anxiety attack used freely when someone is talking about an...
Alexandra Massey
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How Depression Affects Friendships
On the on hand we need friends to help us through the dark days when the only relief from the depression is the thought of ending it all....
Alexandra Massey
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The Dysfunctional Family And Mental Illness
Growing up in a household with parents who have some form of ‘mental illness’ produces children with lower self‐esteem, teens with...
Alexandra Massey
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Why Is Narcissism A Problem In Relationships? Here’s 4 Main Reasons.
Have you ever looked at the person who’s the life and soul of the party, overly generous, provocative, confident, compassionate,...
Alexandra Massey
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How Social Anxiety Affects Your Life
Feeling nervous when you are attending a social gathering, making a speech, doing a presentation or just hanging out with new people is...
Alexandra Massey
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Thirty Depression Symptoms In Men
Men Don’t Have It Easy I was at dinner at a friend’s recently. Sat around the bbq, a couple of my men friends were talking about work....
Alexandra Massey
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How Do You Recover From Depression Without Support?
Your friends, family and social circle just aren’t people you can go to when you’re feeling depressed, so what do you do? This isn’t...
Alexandra Massey
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Why Take Medication For Depression?
What Are The Good Reasons For Taking Medication For Depression? Let’s start with what are the not so good reasons for taking medication...
Alexandra Massey
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Why Are We So Depressed In Spite Of The Happy Pills?
We in the UK are among the most depressed people in the Western world, according to new data released last month from the Organisation...
Alexandra Massey
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What Is Depression?
Depression is described in the dictionary as being ‘low in spirit; downcast’. What it actually feels like is a cloud of lead particles...
Alexandra Massey
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Survival Traits Children Use When Raised In A Dysfunctional Family
When efforts to bond with our dysfunctional parents failed, the result was confusion and anxiety. In order to survive in a home devoid...
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