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Antidepressants and Emotional Blunting

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghMay 8, 2026 Antidepressants, antidepressants list, Antipsychotic Medications, anxiety, avoiding emotions, counseling, medication management, medicine, meditation, mental health awareness, mental health stigma, mindfulness, personal growth, psychotherapy, wellness0 comments
Antidepressants and Emotional Blunting Comfortably Numb? After starting an antidepressant, I often hear: “I’m not sad anymore, but… I’m also not really happy. I just don’t feel much at all.” The goal of antidepressants is to help you feel like yourself on a good day—less anxious, less weighed down by sadness, more motivated, more interested in life, and better...
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The Arrival Fallacy: The Trap of the Dopamine Crash

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghApril 27, 2026 always be positive, avoiding emotions, boundaries, burn out, burnout, counseling, mindfulness, personal growth, psychotherapy, wellness0 comments
The Arrival Fallacy: The Trap of the Dopamine Crash! The Arrival Fallacy, according to Malcomson (2025), describes a phenomenon where one anticipates immense happiness once a set objective is completed, only to find a sliver of joy before moving on to the next goal. Yet joy and celebrations are often all too fleeting. After achieving a major milestone, the...
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Why Do We Talk Ourselves Out of Our Own Pain: Self-Gaslighting and Healing.

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghApril 13, 2026 counseling, mindfulness, personal growth, psychotherapy, wellness0 comments
Why Do We Talk Ourselves Out of Our Own Pain? Self-gaslighting, as defined by Dandelet (2021) from the University of Chicago, stems from the act of invalidating one’s own thoughts, feelings, and actions based on the normative beliefs of others. It serves as a form of maladaptive defense mechanism against current triggers of past experiences. Such action typically...
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Trauma Informed Care; We Have Evolved to be at risk for Trauma; Here is Why

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghJune 21, 2018 counseling for PTSD, psychology, psychotherapy, ptsd, trauma, trauma informed care, trauma therapy1 comment
Trauma Informed Care We have fantastic and astonishing memory abilities. The human mind and its processes, particularly in the way we store and retrieve the effective memories, then affect the way that we store and respond to our other memories and sensory input. Evolutionary psychology examines the way some things that can be problematic are often helpful to us in the past and as we evolved....
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Generalized Anxiety Therapy

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghApril 1, 2018 anxiety, anxiety therapy pittsburgh, cognitive behavioral therapy, counseling, counseling for anxiety, counseling pittsburgh, generalized anxiety disorder therapy pittsburgh, licensed therapist monroeville, licensed therapist pittsburgh, psychotherapy, searching for a therapist in monroeville, searching for a therapist pittsburgh, Therapy and Counseling For Anxiety, therapy for anxiety, therapy pittsburgh, wellness0 comments
Generalized Anxiety Generalized anxiety disorder is a mental health concern which brings many people into therapy each year. As many as 1/4th of people who seek treatment in counseling centers each year do so as a result of wanting to manage symptoms related to Generalized Anxiety Disorder or (GAD). Signs and symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder are free floating thoughts and worries that...
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Phobia Therapy & Treatment

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghMarch 16, 2018 anxiety, anxiety therapy pittsburgh, counseling, counseling pittsburgh, educational, generalized anxiety disorder therapy pittsburgh, licensed therapist monroeville, licensed therapist pittsburgh, psychology, psychotherapy, therapist, therapist in murrysville, therapists, therapy, therapy for anxiety, therapy pittsburgh, wellness, wellness center monroeville, wellness pittsburgh0 comments
Phobia A phobia is a fear or anxiety response of heighted arousal, ie rapid heart rate, rapid breathing, and thoughts of intense worry and this most likely leads to avoidance of the situation or object. Some examples of typical phobias are fear of public speaking, fear of choking or vomiting, fear of spiders (arachnophobia), fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), fear of bridges, fear of...
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