Don’t miss “Women Meeting Challenges-Making Change“, a full day event on domestic violence, May 17 9:00 to 7:00 in Woodbridge, Virginia. If you don’t live nearby, there will be videos on the web site later. Dynamo organizer Liletta Thompson has put together a big roster of speakers and performers that includes Carolyn Thomas (”The Lady […]

Left untreated, depression can result in all sorts of problems for people. But by and large, the problems tend to be focused on the depressed person’s life. Sometimes, however, a person’s depression can spill out into other people’s lives in unintended and potentially harmful ways.
A new study suggests that moms who suffer from depression are […]

A new study from the University of Georgia is one of the first to look at a large sample of female child molesters. The findings? Not surprising, the researchers found that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.
Female sex offenders are rarely studied. In fact, many people don’t even believe women […]

New research which should come as a surprise to few of us suggests that men and women react differently to stress. When women are stressed-out, they get depressed or anxious. When men are stressed-out, they drink:

As part of a larger study, the researchers exposed 54 healthy adult social drinkers (27 women, 27 men) to three […]

Earlier today we reported on new research that shows a link between a parent’s mental health and an increase in the likelihood of having a child develop autism. The research examined Swedish hospital records of children born between 1977 and 2003 who were diagnosed with autism and compared them with children who were not diagnosed […]

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) got some grant money from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to produce an updated brochure on Women and Depression. The result?
A publication that is largely information that’s been regurgitated time and time again (you can see many of the same topics in NIMH’s Women and Depression brochure), culled from a myriad […]

Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a fairly uncommon condition in which a person sees her/himself as having a severe flaw with her/his body and obsesses about it to the point that it interferes with normal social functioning. The perceived flaw is exaggerated and distorted from the reality of their appearance. Watch a good, informative but not […]

We’ve talked about human attraction between men and women in the past here and here. Previous researchers argued that what women value depended on the type of relationship they were looking for. Women looking for long-term partners want someone who will be a good provider for them and their children, but women seeking short-term flings […]

Anyone who works as much as I do has to have some level of anxiety to keep on going. If I wasn’t worried about getting everything done, keeping a tight schedule and maintaining a clean and organized home, then probably I would be slacking-off, sitting on my can missing appointments and living in a […]

Margaret Trudeau, Canada’s lively and lovely former first lady turned bipolar advocate, talks about her recovery (récupération in French) process to stay balanced.
“You need to develop a sense of forgiveness,” she says. “Forgiving myself and forgiving others for abandoning me, for hurting me, for their lack of understanding. I have to ask for forgiveness, and […]

Eating disorders are usually thought of a teen issue, but increasingly men, adult women and girls as young as seven also suffer. They don’t fit into the usual treatment programs designed for adolescent girls. In my community, there’s a recovery program for girls aged 12 – 19, and another mental health service runs a body […]

At least that’s what a new book implies. The book by Amy Sutherland, is titled “What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love and Marriage”. A recent article on Newsweek.com had this to say about it;
Attention, frustrated wives: if you want your husband to start listening to you and stop leaving his socks on […]