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  • Vinnie at Huffington Post
  • @Psychology Today
  • Creative Nonfiction at Manifest Station
  • About Vincent Fitzgerald LCSW
  • Paranoid Costanza
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    How Parents Can Respond to Kids Who Self-Harm

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    When Parents Overreact to Their Child's Thoughts and Behaviors, the Child Feels Isolated and Unsafe.

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    Mental Health Writing Is a Tightrope Walk

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    Preserving Dignity in a Dying Loved One

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    What A Film Called “Umwelt” Taught Me About the “Incel” Community

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    Anxiety Lives in the Space Between Who We Are and Who We Want People to See

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    The Affair “Bubble” Is A Place of Deception and Delusion

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