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Previous Questions

	Can I be social friends with my therapist?
	How can I become comfortable with being touched
	How do environmental factors contribute to the onset of depression?
	I am going to have my first baby in a few months
	I am recovering from breast cancer
	I have been trying to change my eating habits to reduce a mild case of high blood pressure
	I think I am going through menopause and I have been having lots of trouble with my emotions.
	My heart feels like I am having a heart attack, and I feel dizzy.
	Recently I have been thinking about going back to college.
	What is Seasonal Affective Disorder and what helps it?

Deborah G. Alicen, Ph.D., is a private practice psychologist who lives in Plainfield, Vermont--a transplanted Southerner who still can't say "cows" the way real Vermonters do. She has spent the last twelve years working mostly with children, adolescents, and adults recovering from sexual abuse and domestic violence.