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- Courage and Limits with Your Teen
This column uses a story based on a real-life situation in therapy to represent both the teen and parent viewpoints on ...
- Are You SAD This Winter? Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) goes beyond the winter blues. It goes beyond feeling tired or sad or ...
- The Empty Chair at the Holiday Table
Getting ready for the first Thanksgiving after David died was very, very hard. The loss of my husband’s brother ...
- Alternative Treatments for Depression
There are a wide range of alternative treatments for depression. Before seeking out a mental health professional or talking to their doctor, a ...
- 5 Ideas for Boosting Your Energy When Depression Strikes
Depression is as much a somatic (physical) disorder as it is a psychological one. Energy loss is a ...
- Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter along the Path to Hope and Healing
With 114 pages of some of the most beautifully written insight, information, and advice that I have ever read in regard to navigating the labyrinth that is depression and its various treatments, Dr. Deborah Serani’s ...
- Change Your Thinking To Change Feelings of Hopelessness
How many people have you met or heard of who have experienced a loss in their life? As human ...
- From Suicidal To Being in Awe of Life
I’m 28 years old and for the last four years I haven’t had one suicidal thought or intention because ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Train Your Brain to Get Happy
It seems as though every few months another book is published that purports to have discovered the ultimate cure for an unhappy life. Some tout self-esteem, others Buddhism, and still others plastic surgery. Train Your ...
- Surviving Depression: My Agonizing Struggle with Sanity
Robert L. Hamlett’s Surviving Depression offers a window into the life of a man to whom many people can relate. His style may not be as eloquent as some, but Hamlett does get his point ...
- Stop Suffering Needlessly: How to Quickly Recover from Depression
Almost everyone reading this review – particularly those in the mental health field - will have had first-hand experience of dealing with depression at one time or another, whether the sufferer was a client, a ...
- History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life
After reading History of a Suicide, written by Jill Bialosky, I was moved by the way the author not only shared her story of her sister's suicide, but also how committed she was to researching ...
- Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
In Yoga for Emotional Balance Bo Forbes, PsyD, explores how yoga can compliment traditional psychotherapy to help patients improve their anxiety and depression symptoms through movement and breath work. Much of the book is devoted ...
- Attributional Style and Depression: How Your Explanations Influence Your Mood
Several weeks ago I took my four-year-old son camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ...
- Treating PTSD with Surf Therapy
For the last handful of years, Britain and the United States have done quiet experiments with a new form of therapy for veterans ...
- Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter
Dr. Deborah Serani's new book, Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter along the Path to Hope and Healing is a solid entry in the self-help depression book genre, once you get past the ...
- In the Zone: Depression and Emotions
Introduction: This article proposes a non-drug treatment for depression in terms of hidden emotions. It appears that most depression involves ...
- Managing the Painful Side Effects of Antidepressants
For better or worse, one of the primary treatments of clinical depression -- antidepressants -- come with a host ...
- How Long Do Antidepressants Take to Work?
A common treatment for clinical depression is a type of medication called an antidepressant. Antidepressants come in a ...
- Black and Depressed: Two African-American Women Break the Silence
According to Raymond DePaulo, Jr. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, African American ...
- Transcendental Meditation: What Is It and How Does It Work?
Being that my job is to feature and review books on psychology, spirituality, and especially the intersection ...
- Intimate Relationships As a Vehicle for Growth
The old paradigm for couples was pretty simple: The man went to work, brought home the money and paid ...
- Myths About Suicide
In May 2007 a young woman in Oklahoma died of a gunshot wound to the head. Whether it was self-inflicted or not was not apparent. Her family hoped to prove that it wasn’t self-inflicted and ...
