The Emotional Connection between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Social Anxiety Disorder Why do people who survive childhood sexual abuse * sometimes develop social anxiety disorder **? *Childhood sexual abuse is when an older child or an adult perform oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse or sexual...
Center Your Mental Health in 2025 Please take care of your mental health before and while helping others. What is self-care? “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” -- Audre Lorde Self-care is not a...
What happens when trauma shows up at work? People who experience a traumatic event (war combat, sexual assault, violence) sometimes develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result. However, when the traumatic event happens on a regular basis (interpersonal violence, domestic violence, childhood abuse and...
Decolonizing Therapy Can Treat Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma Individuals who belong to the BIPOC and queer communities often require mental health services to cope with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, homophobia, and all of the other oppressive reactions faced by marginalized groups. While most people...