Unfortunately, anxiety is part of being human. It will not go away. Not completely. It is just part of our human make up. If you had no anxiety, you would be an alien.

This article, What Your Bi+ Clients Need You To Know, about guiding and educating Registered Clinical Counsellors on important information about counselling clients who fall on the Bisexual spectrum. Insights magazine is the publication serving the members of the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC), which means that every RCC receives this magazine in the mail.

What are they and what can we do about them?

Struggling with unwanted intrusive thoughts can really make life difficult to bear. The nature of these kinds of thoughts is that they are incredibly distressing. Having unwanted intrusive thoughts can lead you to doubt yourself, your sanity, your morality, your safety, or the safety of those you love.

This video explains some common obstacles that prevent us from going to therapy. It reminds us of how helpful counselling can be.

Reference for article on Bisexuality: Therapy for bisexual, pansexual, queer, and multisexual adults navigating identity, relationships, and bi-erasure.

I know what you’re thinking. How can practicing being grateful not be flaky, fluffy, or fuzzy? It sounds like something a feel-gooder, cheeseball will encourage us to do right after waving incense sticks around, and right before selling you their homemade gratitude memory bowl for $89. (This probably exists.)

Bisexuality is highly misrepresented, misunderstood, understudied, and an often quite highly maligned sexual orientation. It has become increasingly clear to me that bisexuality needs to be talked about much more than it is!

In my role as a Registered Clinical Counsellor, I am in the extremely privileged position of being allowed — no — required, to ask some fairly (let’s face it) invasive questions, like: how do you define your sexual orientation? How do you describe your sexuality? As a result, I get to see something the research has told us, but live and in-person: that there are so many more people who identify as and live on the bisexual+ spectrum than most of us realize!

Every therapist will probably eventually encourage you to try some grounding activities. Grounding is that helpful. It is that universally needed. It is that important.

I appreciate this book because Hari is telling his own story of realization as an insider whom has relied on medication and psychiatrists for much of his life. He brings a journalist's research skills and writing, which he then marries with the vulnerability of a person struggling with depression and trying to understand his struggles with mental illness, the medical system, and the pharmaceuticals he has depended upon.