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The Many Ways Scrolling Social Media Can Be Affecting Your Relationships and Marriage

The Many Ways Scrolling Social Media Can Be Affecting Your Relationships and Marriage 2560 1436 Right Path Counseling

We’re on our phones too often. Most people are addicted in some way to Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok. We spend, on average, 2 to 3 hours per day on…

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What to Do When a Loved One Is Algorithm Poisoned

What to Do When a Loved One Is Algorithm Poisoned 2560 1702 Right Path Counseling

More and more people are spending time online scrolling through media – particularly short form video, like what one would find on TikTok or Facebook Reels. The content on these…

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How Tablets and Smartphones Are Taking Away Critical Life Experiences from Children

How Tablets and Smartphones Are Taking Away Critical Life Experiences from Children 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

A child born today will likely have a small, isolating, engaging screen placed in front of them before their first birthday. Whether that’s a tablet propped up during a car…

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How Often Do I Need to See a Therapist?

How Often Do I Need to See a Therapist? 2560 1548 Right Path Counseling

Therapists can change a person’s life. But because we’re all so busy, it can be challenging to fit therapy into one’s life. That leads many to wonder how often they…

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What is the Mental Health Value of Having a Coworker?

What is the Mental Health Value of Having a Coworker? 2560 1703 Right Path Counseling

Work takes up a significant portion of most people’s waking hours. The environment it happens in — who else is there, how those people interact, whether there’s any genuine connection…

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How Mental Health Can Affect the Perception of Chronic Pain

How Mental Health Can Affect the Perception of Chronic Pain 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

Chronic pain is rarely just physical. Most people living with ongoing pain — whether from an injury, an illness, a nerve condition, or a cause that hasn’t been clearly identified…

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Why AI May Be Becoming a Mental Health Crisis

Why AI May Be Becoming a Mental Health Crisis 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

“AI” products like ChatGPT have become a standard part of daily life faster than most people expected. Many people use these services to ask questions and perform tasks that would…

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How Does One Know if Depression After a Breakup is Temporary?

How Does One Know if Depression After a Breakup is Temporary? 2560 1709 Right Path Counseling

A breakup brings grief. Even when the relationship wasn’t working, even when the end was the right decision, the loss of it leaves something behind — a gap in daily…

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Working From Home Is Great — But What Do People Lose Away from the Office?

Working From Home Is Great — But What Do People Lose Away from the Office? 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

The shift toward remote work over the past several years has been, for most people who’ve made it, largely positive. The commute disappears. The schedule gains flexibility. The ability to…

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How to Grow Comfortable with Being Single Even if You Desire a Relationship

How to Grow Comfortable with Being Single Even if You Desire a Relationship 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

There’s a saying in the dating world that you won’t find someone until you’re no longer looking for them. There’s a bit of truth to that. The more comfort you…

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Why Therapists Have Therapists

Why Therapists Have Therapists 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

Most therapists are in therapy themselves. Not because something is wrong with them, and not as a requirement imposed from outside. Many of them choose it — consistently, across their…

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The Psychological Effects of Empty Nest Syndrome

The Psychological Effects of Empty Nest Syndrome 2560 1708 Right Path Counseling

For most parents, the years spent raising children are the organizing principle of daily life. The schedule, the priorities, the identity — all of it is structured around the needs…

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How Mental Health Creates Chronic Pain

How Mental Health Creates Chronic Pain 2560 1709 Right Path Counseling

Most people think of physical pain and mental health as separate problems that happen to coexist in the same body. Someone is dealing with back pain and also dealing with…

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Why So Many Seniors on Long Island Are Struggling With Loneliness

Why So Many Seniors on Long Island Are Struggling With Loneliness 2476 1651 Right Path Counseling

Loneliness in older adults doesn’t get talked about the way other mental health issues do. There are no awareness campaigns for it, no obvious treatment pathways, and very little cultural…

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What Is an Appropriate Way to Reprimand a Child with ADHD?

What Is an Appropriate Way to Reprimand a Child with ADHD? 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

Discipline is one of the hardest parts of parenting a child with ADHD. Not because parents don’t know what they want — they want their child to behave, to learn…

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Why Nutritionists and Eating Disorder Therapists Avoid Calling Foods Good or Bad, Healthy or Unhealthy

Why Nutritionists and Eating Disorder Therapists Avoid Calling Foods Good or Bad, Healthy or Unhealthy 2138 1143 Right Path Counseling

The language we use around food is so embedded in everyday life that most people don’t notice it until someone points it out. “I was so bad today — I…

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Mental Health Effects for Women Going Through IVF

Mental Health Effects for Women Going Through IVF 2560 1708 Right Path Counseling

IVF is physically demanding in ways most people who haven’t done it can’t fully appreciate. The injections, the monitoring appointments, the hormonal swings, the waiting — it adds up quickly.…

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What Schools Are Supposed to Do for Students with ADHD

What Schools Are Supposed to Do for Students with ADHD 1881 1254 Right Path Counseling

ADHD affects how a child pays attention, manages impulses, regulates their energy, and organizes their work. All of those things are central to what school asks of a child every…

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The Difference Between a Strong-Willed Child and Oppositional Defiant Disorder

The Difference Between a Strong-Willed Child and Oppositional Defiant Disorder 2560 1707 Right Path Counseling

Your child argues with everything you say. They refuse to follow simple instructions. They talk back constantly. They seem to find ways to push every boundary you set. When you…

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Causes of Depression That Occurs Slowly Over Time

Causes of Depression That Occurs Slowly Over Time 2560 1709 Right Path Counseling

Most people think of depression as something that happens suddenly — a traumatic event, a major loss, or a crisis that knocks you off your feet. But for many people,…

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