Merlelynn Harris | Source | M.S., MFT and Clinical Director at Bridge Counseling Associates
Merlelynn Harris
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Bridge Counseling Associates
M.S., MFT and Clinical Director
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How to spot — and help remedy — increased alcohol consumption during the pandemic
It’s been a long three months since the start of the pandemic, and we are by no means out of the woods. Social isolation, economic insecurity and health concerns make for a perfect storm of stressors that many of us are experiencing right now. If you’ve been living with ...
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Any vulnerability that an individual had is going to be squeezed during this time. So whether it’s alcoholism, something non-substance related, even as simple as impatience and irritability, if that was there before, it’s definitely coming out now. … Whether we’re doing more at-risk behaviors out of boredom, or out of stress or out of anxiety or even out of a trauma response, it’s usually their loved ones that will notice that it’s a problem behavior, rather than the individual.
