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If school always felt harder for you than it seemed to be for everyone else — and you quietly decided you just weren't smart — please read this. Specific Learning Disorder is real, it's brain-based, and it doesn't vanish in adulthood. Reading, writing, or math that stays a struggle no matter the ef Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Ever seen a family member walk around or sit up screaming in the night, then have zero memory of it in the morning? That's not them "acting out a dream" — sleepwalking and sleep terrors happen in deep sleep, which is why the memory just isn't there. They're common in children but stick around for s Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick one worth passing along: "Hallucinogen Use Disorder" is a real thing, not just a phase. When use of substances like LSD or psilocybin keeps going despite problems at work, at home, or with your own body — cravings, needing more, or perceptual changes that stick around — that's a pattern a prof Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick myth-buster, and an important one: people living with Factitious Disorder are not simply "faking for attention." This is a real and serious mental health condition, one of the most misunderstood there is. Factitious Disorder means a person falsifies, exaggerates, or even brings on physical or Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Let's clear up one of the most misunderstood conditions in mental health: Schizoid Personality Disorder. It gets confused with shyness or introversion all the time, but it's something distinct. It's a long-standing pattern of detachment from relationships along with limited emotional expression, a r Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Tonight, a gentle word about something that often starts in a doctor's office: Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorder. Medications like Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, and prescription sleep aids genuinely help many people, and dependence can still develop, even taken exactly as prescribed. It can Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Here's a condition almost no one talks about honestly: Pyromania. The myth is that anyone who deliberately sets fires is just a criminal. The clinical reality is more specific and more human: pyromania is a rare impulse-control disorder involving repeated, deliberate fire setting driven by an irresi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

There's a kind of exhaustion that comes from never being able to let your guard down. Paranoid Personality Disorder is a long-standing pattern of deep distrust, assuming others are deceiving or exploiting you even without evidence, doubting the loyalty of the people closest to you, hearing insults h Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Schizoaffective Disorder is one of the trickiest diagnoses to get right, because it blends two things people usually think of as separate, and tonight, if it touches your family, please hear the hope in it. It involves psychosis, like hallucinations or delusions, AND a serious mood episode of depres Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Let's bust a harmful myth head-on: being transgender or nonbinary is NOT a disorder or something to fix. What does have a clinical name is the distress some people feel when the gender they were assigned at birth doesn't line up with who they truly are, and that's called Gender Dysphoria. The distin Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Stimulant Use Disorder doesn't always look the way people expect. It can involve cocaine or meth, but it also includes misusing prescription stimulants like Adderall, sometimes starting with the goal of studying harder, working longer, or just keeping up. It's a real medical condition: cravings, usi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If you've tried to quit smoking or vaping over and over and it keeps reeling you back in, please hear this tonight: that is not weakness. Tobacco Use Disorder is a real medical condition, and nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known. It looks like strong cravings, needing more to feel Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Time to bust a painful myth: a clean scan does NOT mean your symptoms are made up. If your body has done something frightening, a limb going weak, tremors, seizures, losing your voice, and every test comes back normal, you may have heard the worst sentence in medicine: it's all in your head. Please Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Let's clear up a word that trips people up, because antisocial does NOT mean shy, introverted, or a homebody. Antisocial Personality Disorder is a clinical condition: a long-standing pattern of disregarding and violating the rights of others. It can look like repeated rule-breaking, lying or conning Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If you're watching someone you love slowly change, forgetting recent conversations, getting lost on familiar roads, searching for everyday words, please hear this tonight. Major Neurocognitive Disorder, what most of us know as dementia, is a real decline in memory and thinking serious enough to disr Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick myth-buster: narcolepsy is NOT just being sleepy or unmotivated. It's a neurological condition where the brain struggles to keep the line between sleep and wakefulness steady. People can be hit with crushing daytime sleepiness, fall asleep mid-conversation, or suddenly go weak in the knees whe Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

There's a real difference between being a little shy and living with Avoidant Personality Disorder. With AvPD, the fear of being judged, criticized, or rejected runs so deep that a person turns down promotions, skips gatherings, and holds back even from the people they love, all because they feel fu Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If you've ever felt strangely detached — like you're floating outside yourself watching your own life, or like the world has gone foggy and dreamlike and 'unreal' — and it keeps happening, please know two things. One: it has a name, Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder. Two: you are not losing y Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick clarification that surprises a lot of people: OCD and OCPD are NOT the same thing. OCD is driven by intrusive thoughts and compulsions a person desperately wishes would stop. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is a lifelong pattern of perfectionism, rigidity, and need for control Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Bulimia Nervosa is one of the most hidden eating disorders, because a person can be at a perfectly 'normal' weight and still be seriously ill. It's a cycle: episodes of binge eating with a feeling of being out of control, followed by behaviors meant to 'undo' it — vomiting, laxatives, fasting, or co Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Do your moods swing for years — up into bursts of energy and confidence, then down into low, heavy stretches — but never quite "enough" to look like full bipolar episodes? That pattern has a name: Cyclothymic Disorder. It's a chronic mood condition (2+ years) of cycling highs and lows that can quiet Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

"The tests all came back normal, so it's all in your head." If you've heard that, this is for you. Somatic Symptom Disorder is when real, distressing physical symptoms — pain, fatigue, stomach trouble — come with disproportionate worry and a huge amount of time and energy spent on health concerns. T Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is one of the most misunderstood and sensationalized diagnoses — Hollywood gets it almost entirely wrong. DID is a trauma-based condition, almost always rooted in severe, repeated childhood trauma. It involves two or more distinct identity states plus gaps in mem Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If someone you love can't part with things — to the point where rooms can't be used, relationships strain, and shame keeps the door closed to visitors — please know this isn't laziness or "being messy." Hoarding Disorder is a recognized mental health condition involving genuine distress at discardin Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Let's clear up one of the most stigmatized diagnoses there is. Schizophrenia is NOT a "split personality," and people living with it are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it. It's a brain-based condition involving episodes of psychosis — hallucinations, delusions, disorg Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Let's clear up one of the most stigmatized diagnoses there is. Schizophrenia is NOT a "split personality," and people living with it are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it. It's a brain-based condition involving episodes of psychosis — hallucinations, delusions, disorg Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Alcohol Use Disorder isn't about willpower or just "drinking too much on weekends." It's a medical condition defined by 11 DSM-5 criteria — drinking more than you intended, failed attempts to cut back, cravings, and continuing despite harm to health, work, or relationships. Mild is 2-3 criteria, sev Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Alcohol Use Disorder isn't about willpower or just "drinking too much on weekends." It's a medical condition defined by 11 DSM-5 criteria — drinking more than you intended, failed attempts to cut back, cravings, and continuing despite harm to health, work, or relationships. Mild is 2-3 criteria, sev Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Specific phobias aren't quirky — for the person living with them, they shrink life in real ways. People miss weddings because they can't fly. They put off cancer screenings because of needle phobia. They avoid jobs that involve elevators. Here's the good news: graded exposure therapy works, often in Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Some people don't get crashes — they get a slow leak. Persistent Depressive Disorder (used to be called Dysthymia) is a low-grade depression that runs in the background for years. Folks with PDD often think 'this is just how I am.' It isn't. Therapy and medication help, sometimes dramatically. If yo Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

BPD has a stigma problem. People with Borderline Personality Disorder are often described as 'too much' when really they have intense emotional sensitivity and didn't get the regulation skills as kids. Here's the hopeful part: DBT — Dialectical Behavior Therapy — is genuinely life-changing for peopl Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If antidepressants alone keep failing or sending someone you love into a 'too much' phase — racing thoughts, less sleep, big plans, big spending — it might not be depression. It might be Bipolar II. Getting the right diagnosis changes the treatment plan completely. Mood stabilizers plus therapy like Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

There's regular grief, and there's something called Prolonged Grief Disorder — when a year or more after a loss, the pain hasn't softened the way most people's eventually does. You still can't say their name. You still avoid the road where you used to go together. You still feel like part of you wen Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If a new mom in your life has stopped texting back, isn't lighting up around the baby, or quietly says 'I just feel nothing' — please don't brush it off as 'baby blues.' Postpartum Depression affects about 1 in 7 birthing parents and can show up anytime in the first year. It's treatable — therapy (I Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick PSA: OCD is wildly misunderstood. It's not being neat. It's not double-checking the stove once. It's intrusive thoughts that won't leave plus compulsions that eat hours of your day and bring no relief. The treatment that actually works is called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — it's a Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick reframe: 'narcissist' gets thrown around as an insult, but Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a real, diagnosable condition — and underneath the grandiosity is usually a painfully fragile sense of self. It shows up as entitlement, a need for admiration, trouble with empathy, and big reaction Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Anorexia Nervosa is one of the most dangerous mental health conditions there is — and one of the most misunderstood. It's not vanity or a phase; it's a brain-based illness marked by food restriction, intense fear of weight gain, and a distorted body image — and a person does NOT have to look underweight to be in real medical danger. Watch for rigid food rules, skipped meals, over-exercising, fatigue, feeling cold, and pulling away at meals. The encouraging truth: it's treatable, especially early — Family-Based Treatment and Enhanced CBT (CBT-E) work. Diagnosis comes from a licensed clinician. Coping & Healing Counseling offers eating-disorder-informed telehealth across Georgia. chctherapy.com | (404) 832-0102Listen on chctherapy.com →

If something hard happened to you — a car wreck, a loss, an assault, a medical scare, a tough birth — and you're still living with flashbacks, jumpy nerves, or a body that won't let you rest a year later, that's worth paying attention to. PTSD is a real diagnosis with real treatments. EMDR and CPT h Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick question — do you know the difference between 'I'm sad this week' and Major Depressive Disorder? MDD lasts at least two weeks, shows up as loss of interest in things you normally enjoy, changes how you sleep and eat, and drains your energy. It's not weakness. It's a real medical condition, and Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If your brain runs a worry loop most days — finances, kids, the news, things that 'might' happen — and it's been going on for half a year or more, that may be more than stress. Generalized Anxiety Disorder shows up as muscle tension, sleep trouble, irritability, and a hard-to-quiet mind. The good ne Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Body Dysmorphic Disorder gets missed constantly — sometimes for years. It's a preoccupation with a perceived flaw in appearance (that others don't see, or barely notice) plus compulsive checking, comparing, or trying to fix it. It's not vanity. It causes deep distress. CBT adapted specifically for B Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick question to sit with: do you spend hours each week researching symptoms, scheduling 'just-in-case' appointments, or checking your body for signs of serious illness — and never feel reassured for long? That can be Illness Anxiety Disorder (the modern name for what was once called hypochondriasi Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Agoraphobia isn't just 'fear of going outside' — it's intense fear of being in places where escape or help would be hard if panic hit. Buses, grocery stores, crowded sidewalks, even being far from home alone. It often shows up alongside Panic Disorder, and it's deeply isolating. Here's the kind thin Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

If for one to two weeks every single month you become a person you barely recognize — rage, despair, anxiety, then it lifts when your period starts — that's not 'bad PMS,' it's likely Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), and it's a real DSM-5 diagnosis. CBT, SSRIs (sometimes only during the lutea Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Myth: Binge Eating Disorder is a willpower problem. Reality: BED is the most common eating disorder in the U.S., it's a recognized DSM-5 diagnosis, and there are specific evidence-based therapies for it (CBT-Enhanced and IPT in particular). The shame around it keeps people from getting help, and the Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Substance Use Disorder is a medical condition, not a moral failing — and the way we talk about it matters. It can be mild, moderate, or severe, and treatment exists at every level. CBT, motivational interviewing, and medication-assisted treatment for opioid and alcohol use disorders are all evidence Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

A phobia might sound small from the outside — 'just don't fly,' 'just don't look at the needle' — but inside, it shrinks your world. Specific Phobias are one of the most common anxiety disorders AND one of the most treatable. Exposure Therapy, done carefully and gradually, often produces real change Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Question: Have you spent so many years feeling 'a little down, a little drained, a little flat' that you assume it's just who you are? That can be Persistent Depressive Disorder — a chronic, lower-intensity depression that lasts 2+ years and tends to get written off as a personality trait. It is not Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Quick PSA: Seasonal Affective Disorder isn't just a Pacific Northwest thing. Even in Georgia, the shorter, grayer days of fall/winter trigger a real depression in some folks — low energy, oversleeping, carb cravings, social withdrawal — for 2+ consecutive years in the same season. Bright light thera Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →

Going through a major life change — divorce, job loss, a diagnosis, a move — and finding yourself genuinely struggling weeks later? That's Adjustment Disorder, and it's actually the most commonly diagnosed mental health condition in outpatient therapy. Short-term, focused therapy works really well f Generated from Coping & Healing Counseling: Accessible Telehealth for Georgia #CopingAndHealing #GeorgiaTherapy #Telehealth #MentalHealth #PodcastListen on chctherapy.com →