Wellness First Psychiatric | Psychiatry & Therapy in Durham, NC

We will be posting quirky or surprising images once monthly on our home page that nevertheless point in a serious way to important themes...

Recently I ran across a YouTube video by a sleep expert who suggested a little exercise that might be helpful for middle-of-the-night wakers. He suggested remaining relaxed and randomly picking letters from the alphabet then doing a little word association thinking of words that begin with the chosen letter. One night I gave this a try and noticed that in my relaxed state I tended to personalize a fair amount of the words. 'C,' for example lead to: Cape Cod, Catholic, Cari

Over 20 years ago the respected psychologist and author Patrick Carnes coined the term, 'trauma bonding.' He defined his concept...