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  • Creative Nonfiction at Manifest Station
  • About Vincent Fitzgerald LCSW
  • Paranoid Costanza
    Anxiety,  Bowen Systems Theory,  Mental Health,  Psychotherapy,  Relationships

    Accepting Responsibility for “Self” Is a Precursor for Change

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    We Cannot Change Negative Behaviors if We Ascribe Blame to Outside Entities

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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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    Why Some People Die Long Before They Stop Breathing

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    We Can All Choose to Sit Around and Wait For Death, or Live Until We Die.

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  • Anxiety,  Bowen Systems Theory,  Mental Health,  Mental Illness,  Relationships

    Mental Health Writing Is a Tightrope Walk

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    There is no way to please everyone in the world of mental health writing.

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  • Family,  Mental Health,  Relationships

    Preserving Dignity in a Dying Loved One

    April 29, 2019

    Maintaining a Dying Loved One's Dignity Is Achieved Through Caring For the Entire Person

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  • Anxiety,  Bowen Systems Theory,  Depression,  Mental Health,  Mental Health Movie Spotlight,  Mental Illness,  Personality Disorder

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

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    Bethany Orr's Film Underscores the Results of Isolation Combined with a Distorted Point of View

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

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  • Family,  Mental Health,  Psychotherapy,  Relationships

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

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    When relationship crises strike, some people sneak away into a secret fantasy world that is all sty;e, and no substance.

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