Loneliness Articles

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• Adolescent Tragedies and My Teenager
  Once again I am writing about a terrible tragedy. Fifteen dead children. Fifteen lives ...
• Problems of Codependents
  Everyone laughs when I tell them that I wrote Codependency for Dummies. But codependency is no laughing matter. It causes ...
• Symptoms of Codependency
  The term codependency has been around for almost four decades. Although it originally applied to spouses of alcoholics, first called co-alcoholics, researchers revealed that the ...
• When Crisis Becomes Chronic: What to do When Friendships Fade
  It’s a common experience. Something goes wrong in ...
• The Gentle Self: How to Overcome Your Difficulties with Depression, Anxiety, Shyness, and Low Self-Esteem
  I think everyone’s a little narcissistic.  We all have moments when we wish everyone would be more like us—when we get upset that no one seems to care about what we are feeling.  We also ...
• The Lonely Screams: Understanding the Complex World of the Lonely
  Loneliness is certainly a common human experience; even if you’ve been lucky enough to feel it only briefly, or rarely, you know the misery of it, the actual physical pain of it. Arising from a ...
• 5 Reasons Not To Marry the One You Love
  For many young girls, being a bride is the closest thing possible to living out childhood fantasies ...
• House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated
  When I was a psychology major, part of our lab work involved observing people through a one-way mirror.  In House and Psychology: Humanity is Overrated, edited by Drs. Ted Cascio and Leonard Martin, the one-way ...
• Right Here with You
  What do religious books about relationships usually say? “Give it time; God has someone for everyone.”  Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships is different.  It’s a Buddhist—rather than Christian—book.  In it, ...
• 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 ...
• The Way of the Comedian
  This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A. According to a tale in the ...
• What Makes Us Happy?
  If I were to ask you what makes you happy, you would probably have no problem providing me with at least a ...
• A Dog Named Slugger: How Service Dogs Improve the Lives of Many
  Consider these surprising studies concerning the benefit of trained service dogs to help all kinds of ...
• Turning Acquaintances Into Friends
  Lonely? Go on an Internet search for how to meet new people and you’ll find dozens of sites. You know the ...
• Book Review: Mortal Bonds
  Losing one parent is devastating. But losing both parents within 13 days of each other? In his eBook memoir, Mortal Bonds, John Tsilimparis recounts his parents’ difficult deaths, his father from various health conditions and ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She doesn’t approve of your boyfriend. She thinks your best ...
• The Roots of Loneliness
  “I hardly have any friends. I’m spending my days in my room and on the computer. I know ...