Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 12-27-2025 Mental disorders are finally getting some recognition and empathy, but there is still a long way to go with educating our general public. One topic that is rarely highlighted, is how our mental illnesses can bleed onto other people. People do not choose to have mental disorders, it’s an unfortunateContinue reading “Mental Punishments”
Tag Archives: anxiety
Never Thankful
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 11-27-2025 “You walk through life while a rain storm follows. And all the while, people talk to you about the sun, as if you can feel it.” I want to be more satisfied. With the world, with other people, and with myself. Trauma and depression were my greatest barriers. But, itContinue reading “Never Thankful”
Interventions for Attachment Anxiety
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 10-13-2025 “Your loneliness will teach you why you settled.” -EaE Lately, I have been discussing attachment anxiety with a good amount of my patients. This topic requires in depth processing and unpacking various root causes. Many people with attachment anxiety are victims of childhood wounds and unhealthy social teachings. Their neglectContinue reading “Interventions for Attachment Anxiety”
Primary Care Behavioral health
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 08-24-2025 We are no longer in a debate of ‘nature vs nurture’. It is nature and nurture combined, working together, every single day. Around the clock. Causing confusion. As everyone hopes that there will be one direct cause, and one specific cure. And a prognosis, with an end in sight. Ultimately,Continue reading “Primary Care Behavioral health”
Spectrums
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 06-30-2025 Do you recall any time in your life when the people around you gave you warnings of what to do or what not to do? Don’t do that too much, it could be a crutch. Don’t isolate too much, but also you don’t need to be around people all theContinue reading “Spectrums”
Men’s Mental Health
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 6-7-2025 “A man will kill himself before he will ever speak his pain.” -EaE All I can write about is my perspective as an outside observer to a group of people that exist; my male peers, my male family members, my male clients, and men I’ve dated. First off, there areContinue reading “Men’s Mental Health”
Mental May
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 05-15-2025 Every year I promise myself that I will take the month of May more seriously. As it is mental health awareness month. But life get’s the best of me. I was racking my brain on how I could possibly write a blog about mental health for May, as it isContinue reading “Mental May”
But Why?
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 4-20-2025 Our mind will go to places that defy the laws of radical acceptance, & life itself. The reason that I ‘why’ my patients, and sometimes my friends to death, is because the mind is reaching for every answer to every possible scenario. Or the mind is fixated on sticking withContinue reading “But Why?”
Toxic Influencers
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 03-10-2025 You scroll through social media and within several hours, you may have already received contradicting research, information and/ or advice from influencers. Influencers could include healthcare professionals, life coaches, fitness fanatics, celebrities and so on. I know that there are different definitions of the term. I see an ‘influencer’ asContinue reading “Toxic Influencers”
You’re probably slacking on your New Years Resolution, aren’t you?
Elisa A. Escalante/ LCSW/ 01-15-2025 “Growth/ maturity is getting older and realizing that everything you feared, and everything you judged, will happen to you. And the best qualities that you can have during your humility journey are grace and gratitude.” -EaE There is no such thing as an endless supply of motivation. So, if youContinue reading “You’re probably slacking on your New Years Resolution, aren’t you?”
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