Dr. Pria Alpern

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Dr. Pria Alpern

Licensed Clinical Psychologist
✨Trauma & PTSD
📍NYC
⬇️ Therapy in New York

07/19/2025

✨New up on my Substack✨

“We often minimize cheating. “It’s not like someone died,” people say. But the truth is that infidelity is a relational death. And in some cases, it’s experienced as more traumatic than divorce, illness, or even bereavement (Gordon, Baucom, & Snyder, 2004).

As a psychologist, I’ve worked with people who have described feeling physically ill after discovering a partner’s affair. They can’t sleep, eat, or concentrate. They feel relentlessly sick to their stomach. They have panic attacks. One thing I know is that this distress is undeniably grounded in lived expeirence and neurobiological evidence. Research shows that infidelity can register as a traumatic event in the body and brain. Infidelity is trauma.”

05/26/2025

“Some people grow up with a bone-deep knowing that their existence was never welcomed. Not planned. Not hoped for. A presence marked by burden rather than celebration. This knowing is felt in the nervous system, informing how someone perceives themselves, navigates relationships, and finds meaning in life. Clinicians might refer to this experience as the somatic imprint of being unwanted.”

05/24/2025

“As a trauma psychologist, I’ve spent years treating individuals with complex dissociative disorders. I’ve also spent enough time online to recognize the impact that digital culture is having on how people conceptualize their inner lives. There are powerful possibilities here: social media can demystify mental health and create access for those who feel isolated. But what happens when information drowns out expertise? Or when entertainment and education get conflated? And to complicate it further, what happens when youth with very real struggles begin modeling their symptoms on algorithms rather than on their own experience?“

05/16/2025

“As noted in the AMA Journal of Ethics, the preservation of life in pregnant brain-dead patients is one of the most ethically complex scenarios in modern medicine. Yet when Georgia law dictates a one-size-fits-all response where nuance and critical thinking has become lost.”

05/13/2025

New on my Substack
“For decades, the “bystander effect” has painted a chilling picture: when emergencies unfold, the presence of others correlates with inaction. Psychologists have taught this principle in classrooms, cited it in publications, and invoked it in public discourse. But a new study analyzing the murder of George Floyd dismantles that narrative in the most painful, visible way.”

05/11/2025

“I’ve noticed an influx of parents estranged from their adult children who are turning to TikTok and other platforms to publicly express their grief and confusion. They ask: “Why won’t my child talk to me? What did I do wrong?” These videos are framed to elicit sympathy without accountability. They rarely engage in meaningful self-reflection or name the specific relational harms that led to the cut-off. What I’m seeing on social media from these estranged mothers is emotional bypassing, where the parent seeks validation while continuing to invalidate the adult child’s experience. It is a public-facing reenactment of the dynamics that led to estrangement in the first place.”

04/05/2025

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