Movers, Dreamers, and Risk-Takers: Unlocking the Power of ADHD When you have a disability, the world by and large tends to magnify and focus on what is “wrong” with you. Friends of mine who were diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in school were constantly ...
Reboot: A Novel of Bipolar Disorder After my girlfriend, whom we will call Elle, had her first full-blown manic episode, I began to read several books on bipolar disorder. These included books on medications and the use of ECT (electroconvulsive therapy), which Elle received ...
Therapists Spill: My Definition of Success In the fall, clinician Joyce Marter and her husband hosted their friends for a dinner party at their Chicago home. Among the ...
Recovery from Codependency Codependency is often thought of as a relationship problem and considered by many to be a disease. In the past, it was applied to ...
Crochet Saved My Life I began crocheting when I was 19. It was the most stressful point in my life. I had just started my first semester of college, had moved to a different state where I knew no ...
Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story Accessing the best doctors in the world, getting help to create a family foundation, mining alternative fields to solve a mystery illness: these are financial and intellectual opportunities not afforded many people faced with medical ...
Recovery Using the 12 Steps Most therapists do not realize that the 12 Steps are not merely an antidote for addiction, but are guidelines for nothing ...
Manopause: Your Guide to Surviving His Changing Life If ever a book were written with a clearly defined purpose, it is Manopause: Your Guide to Surviving His Changing Life. The book, co-authored by Lisa Friedman Bloch and Kathy Kirtland Silverman, is meant as ...
9 Tips to Cope with Holiday Depression The stress of the holidays triggers sadness and depression for many people. This time of year is especially difficult ...
The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology What’s the difference between personality psychology and social psychology? In essence, personality psychology focuses on the person, while social psychology focuses on the situation—how people act in different situations, or how situations affect individuals. In ...
New Year, New Goals — Maybe The New Year’s celebrations have come and gone. You’ve made your resolutions or you feel vaguely ...
How to Manage Post-Holiday Depression It’s a let-down for many.
After weeks, maybe even months, of decorating, shopping and wrapping, baking, visiting and being ...
