Archive for November, 2006

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Cluster Headaches: Brain Biology Provides Important Clues
  Cluster headaches have been widely recognized for centuries. Only recently has the cause of these often brief, but excruciatingly painful episodic headaches begun to be better understood. What medical researchers have discovered has been surprising to ...
• Dropping from Shopping: When Buying Gets Out of Hand
  Writing on an eating disorders message board, Kristi (not her real name) gives a compelling account of another addiction: Last night I went to three different stores and spent several hundred dollars in, oh, an hour ...
• Medications for Anxiety, Panic and Phobias
  Everyone experiences anxiety at one time or another: "butterflies in the stomach" before giving a speech or sweaty palms during a job interview are common symptoms. Other symptoms of anxiety include irritability, uneasiness, jumpiness, feelings ...
• Medications: Symptom Relief, Not Cure
  Just as aspirin can reduce a fever without clearing up the infection that causes it, psychotherapeutic medications act by controlling symptoms. Like most drugs used in medicine, they correct or compensate for some malfunction in ...
• 10 Things to Do If You’re Alone for the Holidays
  For a wide variety of reasons, many of us find ourselves alone for the holidays. With the emphasis on families and being with others, the holidays can be an especially lonely and trying time, even ...
• Coping with Being Alone for the Holidays
  The holiday season is a time of tradition, and traditions have a funny way of becoming expectations — like getting lots of stocking stuffers and spending days on end with family and friends. But what ...
• Alone During the Holidays? Join the Crowd
  You know the scene. It looks so warm and cozy and loving. The large, smiling family is gathered around an exquisitely laid-out table, brimming with beautifully prepared food. All of this is playing out against ...
• Seven Steps to Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions
  How much money would you bet that you're going to keep your New Year's resolutions this year? Just think of what it will do to your self-esteem if you could pull it off! These tips ...
• Making the Most of a Holiday Apart from Your Kids
  Spending a holiday without your kids doesn't have to be an exercise in misery. Margorie Engel, Ph.D., president of the Stepfamily Association of America, offers these suggestions for making the most of a holiday apart ...
• Preparing Kids for Holiday Visits
  If kids will be traveling between households for the holidays, then the "sending" home and the "receiving" home need to work together to ensure a smooth transition. Margorie Engel, Ph.D., president of the Stepfamily Association ...
• Nine Ways to Beat the Bah Humbugs
  Not everyone delights in all the festivities and joy of the holiday season. People from all walks of life and in all sorts of situations feel depressed, sad or out of it during the holidays. ...
• Holiday Drinking: Keep It Safe
  Every holiday season, people have to deal with the increased pressures and stress that the holidays place upon most of us. Whether we're traveling to be with family or doing our last-minute gift buying, most ...
• Managing Children’s Expectations: A Key To Happy Holidays
  Ten-year-old Sara keeps her holiday wish list in a notebook, adding new items as she watches Saturday morning cartoons. The list is six pages long by October, including several items costing $100 or more. Devon, who ...
• Beating the Holiday Blues
  Joy to the world! 'Tis the season to be jolly! Festive music fills the air; holiday cheer abounds. Everyone is happy at holiday time — right? Wrong. Truth be told, many people feel lonely, sad, ...
• Not in the Holiday Mood? It Might Be the Blues
  It's that time of year again. Multicolored lights twinkle across houses and front yards. Parents and squirming children form long lines to sit on a Santa look-alike's lap. Red and green decorations adorn every store window. ...
• The Next Relationship: Rebounds and Replays
  People often get into a new relationship during the painful ending of their marriage or soon after their divorce. How wonderful it feels to be desired and appreciated, to no longer feel rejected. What a ...
• Talking to Your Children About Divorce
  One of the most painful and important events in the divorce process is telling the children about your plans to end the marriage. In this act, the marital problem moves beyond the marriage, affecting loved ...
• Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster of Divorce
  Divorce is an emotional roller coaster, that’s for sure. There is no way around it. People can tell you that these emotions come and go, and that, with time, they become less intense, and they ...
• Kids and Divorce: Ten Tough Issues
  Children have an especially difficult time with divorce. Many times, parents neglect to consider the ramifications of the effects of the divorce on their children. Understanding how children will view the divorce and the resulting ...
• Graduation Day: A Primer for Badly Divorced Parents
  Graduation day has finally arrived, and families are coming together to wish their young people well as they mark an important milestone in their lives. For some families, hopefully most families, graduation day brings pride, ...
• Giving Your Marriage a Second Chance
  If you are considering divorce, this means, of course, that your marriage isn’t working. And that raises all sorts of questions about you and your marriage that are emotionally difficult — you may be filled with ...
• Getting Support While Going Through Divorce
  The feeling of being alone and isolated can be devastating. Support from friends and family is crucial. If you are in need of support, here are some suggestions: Acknowledge your need for support. Put aside the ...
• Extremities: The Pain and Promise of Divorce
  As the divorce process unfolds, especially within the first several months, you will probably go through a series of emotional extremes. The divorce, as it tears apart the fabric of your marriage, will probably tear ...
• Divorce and the Unexpected Reversal
  You have just begun putting a new life together, having somehow gotten through the most painful experience of your life. The extreme feelings of hurt and anger and fear are subsiding. The emotional roller coaster ...
• What If Someone I Know Is a Compulsive Gambler?
  Take this short quiz developed by Gamblers Anonymous to find out if you may be living with a compulsive gambler: Do you find yourself haunted by bill collectors? Is the person in question often away from home ...