Stephanie Zepeda, PhD

01/31/2025

And this is the heart of strengths-based therapy

01/23/2025

"If you treat the ADHD, if you teach them the life skills that they need in order to work with the executive function difficulties so that they're modifiable, that lessens the risk of all the complications that can develop,"

A large study of 30,000 adults diagnosed with ADHD in the U.K. found women with ADHD died roughly nine years younger than women without a diagnosis. Men had about a seven-year shorter lifespan.

01/06/2025

12/29/2024

Rude

12/29/2024

Reminds me of Bowenian “Emotional Cut Off”… it doesn’t lead to healthy differentiation, but leaves both parties enmeshed with each other.

Family estrangement—the process by which family members become strangers to one another, like intimacy reversed—is still somewhat taboo. But, in some circles, that’s changing. In recent years, advocates for the estranged have begun a concerted effort to normalize it. Getting rid of the stigma, they argue, will allow more people to get out of unhealthy family relationships without shame. The founder of a nonprofit estrangement group called Stand Alone said that society tends to promote the message that “it’s good for people to have a family at all costs,” when, in fact, “it can be much healthier for people to have a life beyond their family relationships, and find a new sense of family with friends or peer groups.”

Those who have cut ties often gather in forums online, where they share a new vocabulary, and a new set of norms, pertaining to estrangement. Members call cutting out relatives going “no contact.” On TikTok, some estranged young people express distress and sadness, but others testify to the mental-health benefits of going no contact. Many describe a life with less anxiety and more self-respect; some provide advice about how to break from your parents. In the forums, people post long descriptions of family entanglements and ask for advice, or just vent about daily life. “But, scrolling through no-contact communities, one can find it hard to avoid the fact that posters are not exactly unbiased,” Anna Russell writes. “Sometimes they advocate a slash-and-burn approach to complex relationships.” Revisit Russell’s report on the no-contact movement—and why some people think it’s gone too far: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wiX5Z9

12/06/2024

Ah… the importance of culturally humble therapy … you don’t want to impose a lab-designed treatment on someone for whom that approach would lead them to danger within their cultural context

10/26/2024

Or if you’re Hannibal Lecter!

10/26/2024

It’s all about perspective, y’all

09/13/2024

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09/05/2024

Transgenerational yo-yo

08/29/2024

Straight up

08/26/2024

So incredibly inspiring