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A Brief History of Anxiety: Yours and Mine

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

In the U.S., 40 million adults have an anxiety disorder. Author Patricia Pearson is one of them: She is a regular visitor to Flu Wiki, an online community that fears an impending influenza outbreak. She ...

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Finding Love after 60

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

During the last few months of her life, my grandmother Ruth, then 93, was too frail for family to adequately care for at home. With much reluctance, she and we all agreed that a nursing ...

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

One of the more humbling things about being a senior therapist is realizing the cases where we missed it because we didn't have adequate training at the time or because the disorder hadn't been adequately ...

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Outlawed by Your In-laws

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Numerous marital problems can be traced to habitual boundary difficulties between mothers and sons which spill over into the man’s relationship with his spouse. Management of the mother-son relationship from earliest days establishes patterns ...

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Daughters Growing Up, Mothers Growing Scared

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Weddings, and wedding planning, are ripe for seeds of conflict to bloom into family feuds. Details take on exaggerated, symbolic importance as family members jockey for position in the new family constellation. Quarrels over plans ...

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When Everyone Else Is Married with Children

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

It started in my mid-twenties. At first it was a slow trickle, then the downpour exploded. Almost all of my friends started getting married. I was a bridesmaid so many times that ...

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Media’s Damaging Depictions of Mental Illness

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

A man who suffers from schizophrenia goes on a shooting spree in Times Square and later stabs a pregnant physician in the stomach. These are the opening scenes from Wonderland, a drama set in the ...

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How To Talk to Your Kids About ADHD

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Your child is in school and either you are frustrated, your child’s teacher is frustrated, or both. You have most likely seen behavioral problems and your child’s teacher has called to tell you that ...

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Life Coaching: Who Needs It?

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Feeling stuck? In a rut? Life coaching helps you identify and change those areas of your life which you find unfulfilling or unsatisfactory. Coaching has been around a long time, but usually in the ...

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Setting Up a Behavior Management Plan for an ADHD Child

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Children who have been diagnosed with ADHD are at a much higher risk of developing noncompliant or negative behaviors than a child who does not have ADHD. The very nature of ADHD implies that the ...

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Top Tips To Keep You Healthy and Working Out

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Now that we are midway through 2009, it is time to check in on how the year is going. Where are your healthy habits right now? Often, people start a new year strong ...

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Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Most women have a variety of physical or emotional symptoms related to their monthly usuaperiods. Symptoms are usually present during the five days before their period and then disappear within a day or two of ...

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Meta-communication: What I Said Isn’t What I Meant

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

"We're not communicating." The woman on the phone thinks she has told me why she and her husband of only a year want to come in for therapy. "Does your husband agree?" I ask. "He thinks ...

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10 Reasons You Don’t Listen

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

We're all guilty of not listening at one point or another in our lives. We tune others out while we're watching the TV, or trying to concentrate on something we're reading. Nowadays, we try hard ...

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10 Reasons You Can’t Say How You Feel

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Not everyone finds expressing their feelings easy or having it come naturally. While the stereotype is that men have the hardest time expressing their emotions, everyone at one time or another in their life may ...

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