Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Ted Crawford, M.S., LMFT June is National PTSD Awareness month. Everyone has some amount of trauma in their past that hasn’t been fully processed (“digested”). Even though the actual [...]
Taming Your Temper
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist Anger is useful in situations where we need more energy to protect and assert ourselves. However, the intensity of anger often leads to regretful behavior. [...]
Anger
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist Anger problems are nothing new, but their prevalence seems to be swelling; no doubt a symptom of life’s increasing complexity, among other things. Anger that isn’t [...]
Codependency
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist For each person struggling with addiction, there are several people connected to him/her who are struggling with the emotional chaos that ripples from it. The [...]
What Is Addiction, Really?
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist “Addiction” is a term that gets thrown around all the time but few really know what it actually is. Let’s see if we can gain [...]
How to be neurotic and miserable
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist We are not suffering from a shortage of “self-help gurus”. In fact, we may be suffering from “guru-overload”. Some, like wiggling dogs scratching for an “open door”, [...]
Teaching Children How to Deal with Conflict
Ted Crawford, Clinical Therapist Childhood/adolescence is “social boot-camp” minus the handshake and salute at the end of it. At no other time is the lack of tact and sensitivity [...]
