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Maintaining Optimal Mental Health: How to Manage the Effects of Living in the City

Living in the city certainly has its positives. From the best coffee shops and job prospects to culture-rich museums and live entertainment scenes, everything you need is on your doorstep. However, city life also has its detractors. Some of these negative effects of living ...

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Eustress vs. Distress: Is There Such a Thing as ‘Good Stress’?

Stress is an unavoidable part of life. However, people tend to use the word “stress” as a blanket term for any feelings of worry or anxiety. In reality, they are referring to “distress,” a harmful type of stress. So, does that mean there’s a good type of stress? ...

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How to Stop Shaking from Anxiety: Your Complete Guide

More than 40 million US adults live with an anxiety disorder. If you’re one of them, you know how extensive the symptoms of anxiety can be — from heart palpitations to sweating and that all-too-familiar deep sensation of dread. But did you know shaking is also a common ...

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How to Deal with Postpartum Depression: Everything You Need to Know

Having a child puts a huge strain on the body, but not all women realize that it also puts substantial pressure on their mental well-being. Postpartum depression affects up to one in seven women who give birth. Although many people refer to it as the “baby blues,” ...

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DBT vs. CBT: Choosing the Right Therapeutic Approach For Your Care

The journey toward healing is deeply personal, and at Citron Hennessey Therapy, we understand that the quest to find the right therapeutic approach can be challenging.  For many, the key to unlocking improved mental health rests on deciding between dialectical behavior ...

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The Difference Between Grieving vs Mourning

Loss is an inevitable part of life. Whether it’s the loss of a loved one, the end of a cherished relationship, or the passing of a significant chapter in our lives, grief is a universal human experience. It’s a journey we all must undertake at some point, ...

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Parents That Don’t Accept You

The LGBTQ+ community has made unprecedented strides in gaining rights over the past years, and acceptance of the community has also increased in that time. The vast majority of young people today believe in the equal dignity of gay people. Yet this belies the fact that ...

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Everyone Wants A Break

With the holidays and the end of the year upon us, everyone wants a break. We’re tired. 2017 was a difficult, intense year for many of us personally and for Americans collectively as well. The mental health counselors at Citron Hennessey come across many people in Manhattan ...

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Getting Along With My Parents

Over the last month or so, a number of my clients have discussed the challenges of navigating a relationship with their parents with me. I suspect that the recent holiday season and current political climate have a little something to do with these relational struggles ...

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On Music & Healing

The use of music as a healing approach can be traced all the way back to the origins of the human species. Prehistoric healers across cultures used specific drumming patterns to induce mental states such as trance and relaxation. Music used in a healing context is evident ...

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How to Sync Your Relationship Pace

For my next few blog posts, I will be doing a series about relationships and time, based on Peter Fraenkel’s book Sync Your Relationship, Save Your Marriage: Four Steps to Getting Back on Track. If you would like to learn more about marriage or relationship speed, marriage, ...

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Resolve To Make It Count

The New Year is right around the corner, connoting renewal and resolutions to make positive changes. Why is it that we wait for the first of the year to reflect upon and intentionally make changes in our lives? What are we doing during the other eleven months? Many individuals ...

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Intolerance of Uncertainty: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Imagine the following scenario: You are on the subway, headed to an important work meeting, and have no time to spare. All is good until, one stop away from your destination, the train just sits there in the station — doors open, engine idling.  Then you hear the familiar ...

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Coping With Flaky Friends

“Sorry, can’t make it today. Let’s plan something soon.” How many times have you received this text or one of its variations from flaky friends canceling plans once again? We all have flaky friends (or have sometimes been that friend) who cancel plans more often ...

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Coping For The Holidays

The cold weather has finally set in, the days are shorter, and the holidays are right around the corner. It’s that time of year. For many, this time of year brings feelings of warmth, joy, and connection to loved ones. For the rest of us, feelings of financial stress ...

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The Fuss With Feelings

In a world where “Breaking News” occurs around the clock with threats of nuclear war and natural disasters, it’s only instinctive to play down our own reactions and feelings so that we can carry on with the day. I have to admit, when I watched the news reports on ...

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Care To Cope?

I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t rely on something to get them through the day. For some, it’s the alluring mental-escape waiting inside a bottle of Pinot Noir. For others, it’s a trip to distraction-isle found in the center of a brownie sundae. In therapy, ...

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Wavelengths Of Communication

Your head is an intricate radio station. Think of your ears as a pair of sophisticated antennas and your mouth as a transmitter. When engaged, they exchange signals with the world around you. They were specially designed to receive and send messages to and from other ...

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Quick Fixes

I have a pretty large sweet tooth. Cheesecake, oatmeal raisin cookies, lemon bars, speculoos cookie butter, anything with butter and sugar has my name written all over it. These baked treats serve as a pick me up after a busy and stressful day. Eating these sugary foods ...

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A Picky Culture

For better or for worse, the digital age has brought us immediate access to seemingly infinite amounts of information and access to a gargantuan amount of goods and services. You only have to stand in the toothpaste section of any major pharmacy to see a sectional representation ...

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Training The Mind To Heel

Recently, I was listening to a Sounds True podcast in which Linda Graham, author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring the Brain for Maximum Resilience, was describing some findings from neuroscience about how babies see and experience the world. It turns out the preverbal infant ...

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