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MentalSpace Therapy
Therapy, anxiety, depression, and what actually helps. Daily new episodes from licensed therapists at Coping & Healing Counseling — telehealth therapy serving all 159 Georgia counties.
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MentalSpace TherapyIs selective mutism a part of autism? — Full Episode
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhat childhood trauma causes avoidance? — Full Episode
What childhood trauma causes avoidance? There isn't one specific kind. Abuse, neglect, growing up around violence or addiction, losing a parent, a frightening…
MentalSpace TherapyWhat are 5 symptoms of GAD? — Full Episode
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhat is the main cause of panic disorder? — Full Episode
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhat causes generalized anxiety? — Full Episode
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…
MentalSpace TherapyRSD and ADHD: Why One Short Text Can Wreck Your Whole Day
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…
MentalSpace TherapyGuilt, Why, and What If: Grieving a Suicide Loss
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…
MentalSpace TherapyAutistic Burnout vs. Depression: Why the Difference Matters
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…
MentalSpace TherapyScanxiety: Living in Three-Month Increments After Cancer
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…
MentalSpace TherapyGrieving the Body You Had: Adjustment After Diagnosis
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…
MentalSpace TherapyComing Home Is Not PTSD: Naming Reintegration Stress
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…
MentalSpace TherapyBetween Two Worlds: When Immigrating Costs More Than Money
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…
MentalSpace TherapyReligious Trauma or Ordinary Doubt?
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…
MentalSpace TherapyThe Grief Nobody Sends Flowers For: Pets, Exes, Estrangement
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…
MentalSpace TherapyGrieving Someone Still Alive: Dementia Caregiver Grief
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…
MentalSpace TherapyCo-Parenting After Separation: When to Bring in Support
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…
MentalSpace TherapyClimate Grief and Doomscrolling: Coping Without Numbing Out
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…
MentalSpace TherapyEnmeshment vs. Closeness: Where the Family Line Blurs
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…
MentalSpace TherapyBirth Trauma vs. Postpartum Depression: The Difference
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…
MentalSpace TherapyThe Grief No One Sends Flowers For
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhy Budgeting Doesn't Fix Money Stress
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…
MentalSpace TherapyAnxious or Avoidant? Adult Attachment
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…
MentalSpace TherapyEmpty Nest: What It Does to a Marriage
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…
MentalSpace TherapyRetirement Grief and the Identity Loss
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhy 'Get Out More' Fails Lonely Adults
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…
MentalSpace TherapyLife After ICU: The Part No One Warns
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…
MentalSpace TherapyMoral Injury vs. PTSD: The Difference
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhy a Vacation Doesn't Fix Burnout
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…
MentalSpace TherapyThe Grief No One Sends a Card For
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhen Pain and Mood Feed Each Other
"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…
MentalSpace TherapyBetrayal Trauma vs. Ordinary Heartbreak
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…
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The Grief No One Sends a Card For
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…
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When Pain and Mood Feed Each Other
"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…
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Betrayal Trauma vs. Ordinary Heartbreak
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…
MentalSpace TherapyAnhedonia vs. Depression: What's the Difference
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…
MentalSpace TherapyWhen Chewing Sounds Feel Unbearable
Chewing. Pen clicking. Heavy breathing. For some people, these aren't just annoying — they set off genuine distress. Misophonia is a strong emotional and…
MentalSpace TherapyCaregiver Burnout vs. Compassion Fatigue
You can love someone deeply and still be running on empty. Caregiver burnout builds slowly — the appointments, the medication schedules, the nights you sleep…
MentalSpace TherapyWhy Racial Trauma Isn't Burnout
Some weeks, the exhaustion isn't about your job or your sleep. Race-based traumatic stress is what happens when discrimination, microaggressions, and the…
MentalSpace TherapyWhy Perimenopause Anxiety Starts Early
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…
MentalSpace TherapyComplex PTSD vs. BPD: The Overlap
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…
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Why Racial Trauma Isn't Burnout
Some weeks, the exhaustion isn't about your job or your sleep. Race-based traumatic stress is what happens when discrimination, microaggressions, and the…
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Why Perimenopause Anxiety Starts Early
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…
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Complex PTSD vs. BPD: The Overlap
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…
MentalSpace TherapyIf you've had a sudden, terrifying...
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…
MentalSpace TherapyIf you've ever pictured catatonia as...
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…
MentalSpace TherapyIf some days your mind won't stop racing...
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…
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If you've had a sudden, terrifying...
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…
- MentalSpace Therapy
If you've ever pictured catatonia as...
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…
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If some days your mind won't stop racing...
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…
MentalSpace TherapyIf school always felt harder for you...
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…
MentalSpace TherapyThey're common in children but stick...
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" —…
MentalSpace TherapyQuick one worth passing along:...
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…
MentalSpace TherapyQuick myth-buster, and an important one:...
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…
MentalSpace TherapySchizoid Personality Disorder: When Solitude Isn’t a Problem
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…
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Quick myth-buster, and an important one:...
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…
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Let's clear up one of the most...
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…
MentalSpace TherapyTonight, a gentle word about something...
Tonight, a gentle word about something that often starts in a doctor's office: Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorder. Medications like Xanax, Ativan…
MentalSpace TherapyHere's a condition almost no one talks...
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…
MentalSpace TherapyThere's a kind of exhaustion that comes...
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…
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Tonight, a gentle word about something...
Tonight, a gentle word about something that often starts in a doctor's office: Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorder. Medications like Xanax, Ativan…