A healthy family requires open communication and love. — I’m a therapist and I have been spending some time with individuals, couples, and families. Families are a doozy, especially when the unit is strife with drama, miscommunication, and triangulation. Triangulation, for the purposes of this piece, will be identified as a term used to cause dysfunction and dissatisfaction in…

It’s common but newer generations are challenging it. — Imagine getting home after a long day at work. You are absolutely not in the mood to make dinner for the both of you — you’ve been making dinner for the past several months and have done the lion’s share with the finances, bills, childcare, and more. While you are…

Canadian Researcher & Writer | Crisis Responder | Newbie Therapist — Hello Medium writers, My name is Synthia and I’m a female in her twenties who is born and raised in Canada. My cultural ancestry is Sri Lankan. I can speak in English and have some proficiency in French as well. At the time of publishing, I was doing my second…

A therapist explores what it is and how to co-exist with it. — I’m a therapist with a vivid imagination, and I’ve been helping several clients who struggle to take control of their daydreams. I’ve been spending a lot of time with these individuals, helping them accept and normalize the idea of having such intense daydreams — while also helping them take gradual…

It’s a new corporate buzzword that has real roots in mental health. — I work as a mental health therapist these days, and I’m constantly on my toes, especially if I am doing on-call services for people across the lifespan. Lately, I have learned about the term “moral injury” and I haven’t stopped thinking about this concept since then. As the British Medical…

We often fall for the so-called “happiness trap”. — I’m currently a mental health professional helping people across a variety of different situations. Long gone are the days when I simply volunteered, wrote, and studied extensively. Instead, I’m finding myself in more intense therapeutic situations where people are trying to force themselves into a positive mindset. Yet, the research…

It’s time to tackle rumination and realistic goal-setting. — I never thought I’d say this — but I’m still continuously juggling more than I can physically and mentally do. It’s like the world expects me to be superhuman, but I can only be at one place at one time. Within a given day, a person can only do so…

Catfishing has taken on newer lifeforms where victims get more entangled and confused. — I work for a mental health service and I have spent many years volunteering in the mental health space prior to this point. When volunteering, I had a chilling instance where I realized that the person on the other end was a possible victim of catfishing. For the uninitiated, catfishing…

I think it’s time for me to revisit it. — I’m currently in the early stages of my mental health career, where I had recently obtained my provisional licence to work with people in my local region. Curiously though, it is not my first rodeo in working with other people. …