Writing on anxiety, ADHD, cultural identity, and what psychotherapy actually involves, from Lewis Ba Luc Le, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Toronto.
Anxiety starts in a functional place. The problem is it only ever imagines bad outcomes, and it doesn't much care whether those outcomes are likely or not. Here's what's actually happening, and why "just calm down" doesn't work.
Read article → (coming soon)You learned to keep everyone comfortable, so it started to feel like personality. It isn't. People-pleasing is a pattern you picked up, usually for good reasons, and patterns can change. Here's what's underneath it and where the work starts.
Read article → (coming soon)Relief and grief in the same moment. That's what a late diagnosis tends to feel like. Relief that there's a name for it. Grief for all the years spent thinking you were just doing it wrong. Here's what comes after.
Read article → (coming soon)Many Vietnamese families don't talk about mental health. That silence has a cost, and it gets carried forward. Here's what that cost looks like, and what it means to be the first person in your family to take it seriously.
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