Thoughts from a Therapist
Psychology, Relationships, Meaning, and the Conditions that make Change
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What Is Happening to Me When My Trauma Is Triggered? The Four Stages of a PTSD Response
Why PTSD triggers feel like the trauma is happening again. A therapist tracks three of his own traumas through the four stages: spike, interpretation, behavior, return.
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How to Create Your Own Political Positions
We can name our political label faster than a single position. A therapist and systemic interventionist maps the seven domains a country is responsible for and the five questions that show us where we stand in each, before anyone asks us to pick a side.
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Why Does It Hurt So Much to Not Do the Compulsion? OCD and the Four Stages of a Trigger
OCD is not simply a thinking error. Three kinds of obsession, where each enters the four stages of a trigger, and why refusing the compulsion scales like injury.
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Why Are We So Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
Are we afraid of artificial intelligence, or of what we have already done with our own? A therapist on projection, ecology, and the fear of AI.
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Why Does My ADHD Make Me So Anxious? The Four Stages of a Trigger in a Branching Mind
ADHD anxiety is rarely one spike. A branching mind turns a single trigger into many, and the thinking meant to help blocks the contact that regulates. A therapist explains.
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Why Do I Get Triggered So Easily? The Four Stages of an Emotional Reaction
Why we still react after years of work: the three stages of an emotional reaction, what can and cannot change, and why sensitivity is not a defect.
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Why Am I Disappointed Even When Things Are Good?
Why am I disappointed even when things are good? Expectations, efficiency, and fixation on flaws can pull attention away from what matters most.
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Why Do I Feel Things I Know Are Irrational?
Why do I feel things I know are irrational? Thoughts, emotions, physiology, memory, and behavior can create and interrupt emotional feedback loops.
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