I come across functional depression often in career counseling. Sometimes people do not realize they may be experiencing depression until we begin looking more closely at their career choices, their level of fulfillment, and the ways they have felt unhappy or...
Major depressive disorder, often called MDD, major depression, or clinical depression, can affect far more than a person’s mood. It can change how they experience their body, relationships, work, thoughts, energy, and sense of connection to their own life....
Adult relationships with parents can be complicated, even when there is love, care, and history between people. A parent’s comment may seem small from the outside. A remark about your clothes, your home, your parenting, your work, your relationship, your schedule,...
Boundaries with adult parents can feel especially complicated. A person may understand, logically, that they are allowed to have limits, privacy, preferences, and emotional space. They may know they are an adult with their own life, relationships, home, values,...
Note: In this blog, I use the word “parent,” but this can also refer to a main caregiver, guardian, grandparent, or another important adult who had a significant influence on how you learned to think, choose, and trust yourself. This blog is not written for...
