What it Means To Be in Love Such a broad and abstract topic as love, not surprisingly, is hard to define. And, of course, many writers, artists, ...
9 Myths and Facts About Therapy Unfortunately, therapy still remains a shrouded subject, and many myths persist. The problem? These misunderstandings can prevent people from seeking ...
Learning from Resilient Kids In 1955, researchers Emmy Werner (University of California, Davis) and Ruth Smith (licensed psychologist, Kauai) began a longitudinal study that followed all of ...
Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Recovery from Eating Disorders Aimee Liu writes with a gentleness and an understanding that only someone who has been through the painful process of recovery can truly possess: Her 1979 memoir, Solitaire, was the first discussion of anorexia nervosa ...
The Boy from Bothell: Bipolar Vietnam Veteran Gene Olson’s The Boy from Bothell: Bipolar Vietnam Veteran gives a memoir of his life, his difficulties with bipolar disorder and his fight for sanity. As Olson notes, bipolar disorder was first described at the ...
Sleeping With Gods The subject of mental illness has often been explored in works of literature and other media. Michael Fontana’s novel Sleeping With Gods aims to combine a coming-of-age love story with themes of mental health. In ...
Don’t Let Fear Destroy Your Relationship Why do we fight with our partners? I’m not referring to small arguments that resolve reasonably quickly with a compromise. ...
Cry Depression, Celebrate Recovery: My Journey through Mental Illness Barbara Altman, a St. Louis, Mo., native, earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Fontbonne University and taught music therapy at St. Louis Institute of Music. She now teaches piano and guitar in her home ...
Music Therapy May Aid Brain-Damaged Patients A review of the evidence to date suggests that music therapy can help patients recover their movements after experiencing brain damage. ...
Debunking 6 Myths About Asperger Syndrome The discovery of Asperger Syndrome (AS) dates back to 1944. Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger described the syndrome when he was ...
College Life: Freshman Friends Perhaps it has already happened to you.
In the first week or two of school, you quickly made a group out of the ...
The Blame Game: The Complete Guide to Blaming Blame is a universal concept that most human beings experience at one point or another in their lives. For most of us, blaming behavior has become so second nature, that it goes unnoticed and ignored ...
Runaway Mind: My Own Race with Bipolar Disorder Runaway Mind by Maggie Reese was a thoroughly enjoyable, engaging and educational book filled with firsthand accounts of what life can be like with bipolar disorder. Maggie invites us into her life during this very ...
Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older In the film Gigi, Maurice Chevalier sings about the advantages of aging in the song titled "I’m glad I’m not young anymore." Wendy Lustbader would agree with him. As she puts it in this book, ...