@micheline.maalouf - Micheline Maalouf Therapist Profile

United Nationa General Assembly Voted on Ceasefire Resolution. What do you think? #ceasefire #un #unitednations #freepalestine

ADHD can make everything feel frustrating. We have low frustration tolerance which makes us feel angry and annoyed at simple tasks. Because of time blindness we struggle to prioritize and so these tasks start to seem meaningles and cause us to get frustrated because it feels they ara taking away from what we want to do or important things #adhd #adhdtiktok #adhdinwomen #adhdprobs #adhdtok

Intrusive thoughts can feel so real at times they have you questioning if you really want to do them. The answer is no! If you wanted to then they wouldn’t be disturbing you. Here is a tip to help: When you have an intrusive thought, don’t try to stop it or push it away. Instead notice and then say “i’m having the thought” before each intrusive thought. This helps remind you that it’s a thought and helps separate you form being fused with it! #intrusivethoughts #ocd #anxiety #anxious

Trauma can change a lot about you and healing can being you back. Not exactly as you were but a different powerful version @⠀ #trauma #traumahealing #cptsd #cptsdawareness #ptsd

ADHD thoughts are wild sometimes Ib: @Mel The Potato Head #adhdinwomen #adhdtiktok #adhdinwomen #adhdcheck

Silent Panic Attacks aren’t visible to others, you might look totally ok, maybe tired or zoned out but on the inside it’s just as intense #panic #panicattack #anxiety #panicattacks

Parentified children aren’t just tending to parents they also tend to siblings since parents are emotionaly and physically unavailable. Ib: @Melissa 🫶🏼 #trauma #parentification #cptsd #parentified

Instrumental parentification means you were responsible for taking care of household responsibilities that were beyond your age. You essentially ran your home. This is extremely common in immigrant households. Here are some ways we can be instrumentally parentified: 1. You were responsible for taking care of the bills and payments for the household 2. You kept inventory of what was needed at home and possibly even took over shopping and meal prep 3. You were responsible for your siblings, belong with homework, making sure they were ready and dressed for school, and even bathing them and taking care of hygiene needs 4. You accompanied and became the translator between your parents doctors appointments, teacher conferences and other necessary appointments. 5. You were responsible for the functions of the home and the well being of your parents physical states. For example caring for a sick or mentally Ill parent In some cultures children are expected to show up in certain ways. Gender roles of girls cook and clean and take care of siblings and make sure not to anger parents. In these situations the children may have more knowledge of the how the system they live in works and therefore the parents depend on the children to take care of adult tasks like make phone calls and translate #parentification #parentifiedchild #cptsd #empath #cptsdsurvivor

Do these 4 steps at the first sign make sure you pull over to a safe spot and continue to remind yourself “I’m safe” If you’ve seen my sour candy videos you can also eat sour candy while you do this! Always keep them on you!Have you panicked in a car? #panicattack #panic #mentalhealthawareness