by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jul 22, 2021 | Addiction Treatment, Psychotherapy
If you’re dealing with love addiction recovery, then you should know that self-care is important. However, if you’re like many love addicts, self-care might feel like a foreign concept. That’s because love addicts have a very hard time practicing... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jul 20, 2021 | Addiction Treatment, Psychotherapy
Love addiction—which is also called pathological love—is a type of behavioral addiction where the person becomes addicted to falling in love with someone. This process of falling in love gives the person a dopamine hit that they seek to repeat. Like any other... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jul 13, 2021 | Addiction Treatment, Psychotherapy
Love addiction is a type of behavioral addiction where the addict becomes addicted to the feeling of being in love. It’s important to realize that love addiction is not simply a nice way to refer to sex addiction, but that it’s actually an addiction in and... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Jun 11, 2021 | Psychotherapy
Depression is a complex but often serious mental condition that affects different people in different ways. It alters a person’s mental state and can have physical effects as well as mental ones. Depression doesn’t just affect the person suffering from it,... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | May 18, 2021 | Psychotherapy
You might think of trauma as something that has more of an emotional and psychological impact with physical manifestations. However, the effect of trauma on the brain can actually change the physical structure. The result of changed brain chemistry and physical makeup... 
by Dr. Howard C. Samuels | Sep 14, 2020 | Psychotherapy
Roughly four percent of men and 10 percent of women will experience the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder during their lifetime. PTSD is often the result of sexual trauma at a young age but can develop from many other experiences of trauma as well. PTSD is a... 
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