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Mental Illness and Genetics

A mental illness can have a major impact on your life, so it’s understandable if you’re worried about developing one or passing one on to your children. Maybe you have a close family member who has a mental illness that you’ve heard “runs in families” and you’re wondering – is mental illness genetic?

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I Feel Like the Longer I Do This Work, the Less Empathetic I Become – Should I Be Worried?

Maybe when you first started out as a clinician, you found yourself thinking about your clients outside of work – worrying about them, wondering if there was more you could do to help, or if there was a better way that you hadn’t tried yet. But after years of working in mental health, it might feel harder to feel empathy for your clients. You may have heard about compassion fatigue, but there is another condition many clinicians experience at one point or another – empathy fatigue.

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