Archive for February, 2006
Listed by most recent articles first.
- Addicted to Exercise
When working out shifts from a healthy habit to obsession
Do you think it would be great to love exercising so much you couldn't quit? Does the image of a svelte waistline, slender hips and shapely ...
- Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Stress
There are many good techniques and resources for dealing with stress. Perhaps the most important fact is this: Nearly all the stress-related ...
- Change Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
The beginning or end of a relationship is always a time of tension and turmoil. Likewise, any change in your life can cause stress: a new job, starting college, even a vacation. Although change puts ...
- Fight or Flight
Consider this stressful situation: At a meeting for which you have thoroughly prepared, the chair criticizes you and accuses you of failing ...
- Reducing Stress at Work
Understanding the causes and effects of workplace stress is important to developing strategies for change. The critical component of any stress management program is the belief that alternatives exist. Feeling trapped and without choices, is ...
- In-Depth: Understanding Depression
If you fail an important examination, lose a job or lose a love, it is normal to feel depressed. If a close friend dies, it is also ...
- Being Alone Without Being Lonely
There is a great difference between being lonely and being alone. Many people are alone and lead happy lives. It may behoove us to study some of their traits, because many of us are likely ...
- Coping with the Loss of a Spouse
Dealing with the loss of a spouse can be one of the most traumatic and stressful events in a person's life. This loss often occurs during a stage when many other changes are occurring. Children ...
- Does Stress Cause Heart Disease?
One could argue that stress is bad and feel intuitively that it must be harmful to health. Then again, human beings have always been subject to stress. We evolved under stress that must have far ...
- Taking on Anxiety and the Irrational Fears in Your Life
Next month Amy turns 49, but it's unlikely to be a happy birthday. Five years ago she had what she terms ...
- Marriage Myth: Communication will Solve All Your Problems
Concealed issues suddenly brought to light can explode.
Michael and Gwen enter the counselor's office and nervously take their seats. Michael fidgets and stares at the floor while Gwen sits upright, looks toward the therapist and ...
- Marriage Myth: Spouses Can’t Change
On the contrary: Revamping your partner is easy.
By the time people seek marriage counseling, they usually arrive armed with an arsenal of complaints about their partners: "She isn't affectionate enough," "He's so insensitive," "She wants ...
- Defeating Depression’s Funk-to-Fat Cycle
For many depressed people, exercise is excruciating. But it may be what they need to recover.
As many depression sufferers can attest, feeling down is likely to lead to slowing down. It's not uncommon for once-active ...
- Depression: Down But Not Out
Depression can hit with the force of a tornado, tearing down lives and wrecking stability, but treatment is effective in four out of five cases.
It's almost as prevalent these days as the common cold. Nearly ...
- Modern Love: Ways Women Can be More Assertive
It's not long ago that men were expected to do all the chasing and make all the decisions when it comes to dating. But how much has this changed in the 21st century?
A survey by ...
- The Valentine’s Day Fray
I find human behavior fascinating. For example, I have a friend who, for 355 days of the year, is happily single. Oh, sure, she dates from time to time, but is very content living on ...
