Archive for July, 2009

Listed by most recent articles first.

• A Brief History of Anxiety: Yours and Mine
  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 ...
• Finding Love after 60
  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 ...
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome
  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 ...
• Outlawed by Your In-laws
  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 ...
• Daughters Growing Up, Mothers Growing Scared
  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 ...
• When Everyone Else Is Married with Children
  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 ...
• Media’s Damaging Depictions of Mental Illness
  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 ...
• How To Talk to Your Kids About ADHD
  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 ...
• Life Coaching: Who Needs It?
  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 ...
• Setting Up a Behavior Management Plan for an ADHD Child
  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 ...
• Top Tips To Keep You Healthy and Working Out
  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 ...
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
  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 ...
• Meta-communication: What I Said Isn’t What I Meant
  "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 ...
• 10 Reasons You Don’t Listen
  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 ...
• 10 Reasons You Can’t Say How You Feel
  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 ...
• Overcoming Fears, Phobias and Panic Attacks
  There are many ways that a therapist might work with someone to help them overcome their fears, a phobia (like being afraid of snakes) or having a panic attack (where a person feels their heart ...
• The Psychology of Mental Toughness
  People often seek therapy when they feel overwhelmed, out of control, or unable to take positive action. They think they come to figure things out and may not know that psychotherapy can make you stronger. ...
• Fixing Cognitive Distortions
  Cognitive distortions have a way of playing havoc with our lives. If we let them. This kind of "stinkin' thinkin'" can be "undone," but it takes effort and lots of practice -- every day. ...
• 15 Common Cognitive Distortions
  What's a cognitive distortion and why do so many people have them? Cognitive distortions are simply ways that our mind convinces us of ...
• Specialized Geriatric Hospital Units Aid Elderly
  Older people cared for in specialized geriatric hospital units tend to decline at a slower pace than those given conventional hospital care, recent research suggests. Aging brings a certain amount of natural deterioration in cognitive performance, ...
• 7 Myths of Perfect Parenting
  "I'm so afraid I'm going to blow it." The niece of a friend of mine, 24 and pregnant, confided to me while we were out walking last weekend. "I mean. I'm just figuring out ...
• Yoga Journey
  I started going to yoga classes when I was a sophomore in college. This was in 1995, so the yoga craze had not yet begun. I didn’t know much about yoga, but liked ...