Archive for May, 2006

Listed by most recent articles first.

• How Our Social Network Helps Us Thrive
  One way that your attitude can affect your health is that a bad attitude can drive other people away. And interaction with other people is vital for your health. Human beings are social creatures. So ...
• The Power of Positive Thinking
  No one can avoid all negative feelings in life and it's not realistic to think you can or should. But the happiest people somehow know how to buffer them by keeping life's inevitable tragedies from ...
• An Introduction to Biofeedback
  Most people think that they can't control blood pressure, body temperature, brain waves, digestion, muscle tension, heart rate, and the like. And most of the time, they're right; these basic bodily functions are normally regulated ...
• I Grew Up in Poverty
  I grew up in poverty, in a family of 9 children in rural Maine. We had a small sustenance farm with animals and a very large garden. I have no memories of being hungry, but ...
• A Troubled Childhood
  I started out as a very troubled child. I had many problems and brushes with the law because of it. I was constantly battling my parents because I thought I was always right. School ...
• Being Teased and Taunted
  I grew up mostly in Alexandria, Minn., but moved to Ada in the 6th grade. When I was young I was a very emotional child. I was put into a special class, even thought I ...
• Jennifer’s Story
  I think my problems started at age 3, when my father passed away. My mother said I almost had a mental breakdown, I quit talking, and was in my own little world. That only lasted ...
• Torture
  In the realm of pain and anguish Begging for release of Death, Lies the child with brutal mother Battered day by day with stealth. All who know the gentle lady See her kindness shining bright, See the woman love her children See ...
• My New Life
  At the age of 23, I woke up one weekday morning with the feeling that something was wrong. I searched my mind. Oh, yes. I remembered. I remembered that I was living a new life; ...
• Only 16
  I am currently 16 years old and live in New Jersey. When I was 6 years old, my parents got a divorce and I moved around New Jersey and New York State a few times. ...
• Losing My Mind
  I was born three months premature, along with my twin sister. I guess you could say that I was a fighter from the start, weighing in at only 1 lb. 9 oz. I was ...
• Through It All
  What happen to me is not really unbearable under normal circumstances but coming from dysfunction in most areas of my life it was what most would call unbelievable. I'll begin at the age of 8 because ...
• Bird in the Invisible Cage
  As I watched my 68-year-old father hug my 16-year-old daughter at the airport, my stomach tightened around the bag of worms, renewing that old, buried feeling. My son waited patiently for his grandfather to ...
• Schizophrenia’s Voice
  I would perhaps start with explaining that everything that I say is honest and true, the reason being that some of it may be unbelievable, but then I find many of the stories I have ...
• A Long and Arduous Journey
  I was born in a small town in Florida during the late 1940s. My mother had undiagnosed and untreated schizophrenia and my father was a man of some power within the community who was ...
• Twenty Years
  I grew up in Temple, Texas with a family that had not noticed early signs of my mental illness. Parents divorced and I went to Florida. I found support with my sister Lisa; I felt ...
• The Real Me
  Everyone who cared had tried to help me for so long, but nothing was working. The elders of my church, although they placed no confidence in psychology, didn’t know what else to do. They offered ...
• Alice’s Story
  My name is Alice and I live in New Zealand, and have lived here all my life. I am 24 years old, although I feel like I am still that small five-year-old girl going ...
• Grappling with Issues in a Small Town
  Being raised in a small town with a state mental hospital across the creek from where I lived was scary enough as a child, but having a birth mother as a patient there for the ...
• Façade
  I cannot speak on behalf of every depressed or troubled teenager and even if I could, I would not want to. Depression is an illness, not a personality defect or a lifestyle choice, as people ...
• My Battle with Mental Illness
  I saw my psychiatrist for the first time in 2001. Stress from work was extremely overwhelming. I was working approximately 15 hours, sometimes more, a day, every day, plus going into the office on ...
• Rapunzel’s Story
  My story about mental illness is essentially my entire life. Mental illness wasn’t something we talked about in my family, so I’m not sure I ever put my finger on it as a child, ...
• My Search for Significance
  I remember losing my self-worth the day my dad and I raced up to visit my mother in the hospital. I was about seven years old. She was sick with bronchitis and asthma ...
• Losing in Life
  When you grow up in New England, life revolves around the seasons. Memorial Day kicked off summer, even though it was still too cold to swim. Labor Day meant back to school, even though it ...
• Kids and Sleep
  When they're infants, it's middle-of-the-night feedings. When they're toddlers and school-age, it's awakening to give medicine or soothe them after a nightmare. It's no surprise that, according to the latest poll from the National Sleep ...