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COVID-19 Presents Challenges, Opportunities for Families
December 2, 2020
The covid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented situation in the United States, and in most parts of the world. The thought of becoming sick, needing …
Welcome
November 13, 2020
Are you going through some issues with your family? Do you want to learn the common-sense solution to avoid things heating up? Great! Then you’re …
What You Can Expect To Find Here
We would like to welcome everyone to psychdomain.com and use this as an opportunity to look at our mission and intent. Our hope is that everyone reads this first to hopefully avoid possible misunderstandings.
Our shared mission is to be a commonsense place where families of all types can go to find help with problems, either personal or interpersonal, different areas of their lives. These problems can take on as many different forms. Whatever your role within a family or relationship, our intent is to be a resource for ways to increase communication, stability, and coping skills for adults, adolescents, and children who are struggling in their current situation. We will point out areas we think can be of interest or help to families through blog posts or articles. We will also post videos and podcasts that will hopefully help point families in the right direction in terms of helping foster more open means of dealing with difficult situations within the home. We will not tolerate any judging or shaming of people in any form or fashion here.
It is not our intention to “talk down” to anyone or use jargon or buzzwords to entice people to interact with this site for any reason. We want any person who visits to feel comfortable and able to express or address their problems directly. We understand that many people are distrustful of the “system” for various reasons or are distrustful of the idea of mental health in general. In many ways, this site was designed for those groups, but our desire is to serve everyone. We hope to give all who visit the ability to remain anonymous and find resources or direction or to equally feel free to reach out to us for assistance.
We have a few areas that we do not intend to discuss on this site except for in general ways. The first of these is medications. Everyone connected to this site has roughly the same stance on medications: 1) they can be effective in many situations, 2) they are rarely, if ever, going to “cure” problems like anxiety, depression, or ADHD, but they can help, and 3) we will not advise any family to use or not use medications for any reason, if for no other reason than we are not doctors. This is a decision to made by families, hopefully in conjunction with their doctors.
Another area we do not intend to become involved in is diagnosis. Diagnoses are difficult enough to make for doctors or practitioners who are in close contact with the person on a regular basis let alone people on the Internet who have never met with or interacted with the person in question. Furthermore, our goal is to help people, regardless of age, look for the root causes of their problems and meet them head-on, rather than pathologizing people and problems they have interacting with family or peer groups.
We will be posting a glossary of the most common terms used in psychology and common modalities used to treat the problem behaviors that so many of see every day.
If you search our site and find a question on a psychological topic that has not been addressed in our general glossary, please let us know and we will create one.
In this community we believe in some basic truths about mental, and emotional, health.
- No one is faking. While people can, and do, disagree about the validity of a diagnosis or various areas of symptomology, or whether mental illness even exists, we believe that people’s suffering is real and relief is within reach.
- We believe that medications can help in many cases but are not a “cure” for mental health diagnoses. Instead, we believe that medications can give us the ability to better grapple with the underlying causes and symptoms with which a person may be struggling.
- We believe that diet and exercise are crucial components in a person’s journey to find the life they want to live.
- We believe that no situation is beyond help or resolution as long as a person or family is willing to strive to change their perceptions and behaviors.
- We believe that a person being able to be open and expressive of their internal experience is the biggest obstacle to lasting change.
- We believe that parents will always be the biggest influence in their children’s lives, for better or worse, and will have a greater opportunity over the long run to help their children change their perceptions and habits, especially children under the age of 10.
- We believe that accepting and embracing change in our lives as positive and necessary is the first step down the road to happiness.