Author: TodaysTherapist
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Is DMDD Causing Your Child’s Anger?
All children have their moments of irritability and anger from time to time; that’s a normal part of life. If your child has extreme outbursts in which they cannot control their anger, this is more than just a “normal” thing. There is a clinical diagnosis for your child, in this case, and there is help…
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How to Control Your Emotions in a Relationship
Relationships take a lot of mental and emotional work. When things go well, emotions run high, but when they go poorly, emotions can become negative and erratic. You might end up feeling emotionally drained after a while and even want to throw in the towel. Trying to find that crucial balance between the two polarities…
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Four Tips for Fighting Feelings of Resentment
The easiest way to describe resentful feelings is that start with the resentment definition, which is a feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or anger toward someone else (or something else) that you feel wronged you or caused you hurt. It’s a persistent feeling and isn’t always easy to get over. What is Resentment? Dictionary definitions, no…
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How to Recover from Mental Burnout and Regain Your Sanity
Mental burnout happens to the best of us. It is entirely too easy to get wrapped up in the stressful nature of our daily lives and forget to just breathe and relax. You might find yourself feeling exhausted, impatient, unable to experience joy, and even try to seek out ways to escape from whatever is…
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What Does It Mean to Be Neurotic?
Terms like neurotic get tossed around a lot in ways they shouldn’t. When someone is acting a little frazzled or concerned someone might ask them why they’re being neurotic, or accuse them of it. The thing is, neurosis is a mental illness. What is Neurosis? Neurosis, or the plural neuroses, is a group of mental…
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How to Feel Better about Your Body: 8 Things that May Help
Almost everyone has something that they do not like about their body, something that makes them feel insecure. You might look in the mirror and see things that you do not find attractive or feel the urge to change. The truth is, learning how to feel better about your body is not an easy task…
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Do You Have PTSD?
Most of the time when you hear about PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) it’s about people that have served in the military and suffered great traumas in war (whether they just saw horrible things or experienced them firsthand). However, military personnel aren’t the only people with PTSD. Causes of PTSD Anyone that has experienced a…
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8 Tips on How to Build Mental Toughness
When we hear the word “toughness”, we tend to make the association with physical strength. However, there is such thing as mental strength, and it can take a good amount of effort to build up such fortitude. If you are looking for tips on how to build mental toughness, the following eight suggestions might be…
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Why Opioid Addiction Should Scare You
There is an epidemic in the United States that is killing people; It’s opioid addiction. The most frightening thing about this crisis is the number of people it is killing. All the statistics you need to understand how terrible this epidemic is are online, but the fact is that opioids killed five times more people…
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What Not to Tell a Therapist: 8 Thoughts to Keep for Yourself
We often think that, when we speak to our therapists, we have to tell them everything. While it can be helpful to tell them about some of the thoughts and feelings that are bothering you, a few of them might actually be better kept to yourself. Also, you are not under any sort of legal,…
