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Strategies for Improving Memory

Friday, November 13th, 2009

How often has this happened to you: You enter a room and forget why you wanted to go into that room, or you cannot find your keys or your glasses? You may become frightened that ...

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Money and Romance

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Talking about one's financial situation early in a relationship is as important as talking about safe sex. It's something that needs to be shared just as early and just as deeply. When deciding whether ...

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Anticipated Fullness Is Crucial to Calorie Intake

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Experts have challenged two basic assumptions behind food choices and the causes of obesity. Drs. Jeff Brunstrom and Peter Rogers of the University of Bristol, UK, investigated the theory that we eat larger amounts of tasty ...

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Weekends at Bellevue

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Ever wanted to go beyond the doors of a psychiatric hospital? To have a key to the locked units? To witness the day-to-day at a legendary institution mired in mystery and folklore? Weekends at Bellevue, ...

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Breaking Up? Blame the Chick Flicks!

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

My 20-year-old daughter tells me she thinks the reason so many young relationships fail is because of the “chick flicks.” You know: Those movies where the focus is entirely on the heady romance between a ...

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Women and Violence

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The impact of violence against women is too often masked by silence. Its continuation depends on silence. Distance keeps us safe and unless one personally experiences violence or knows someone who has, many of us ...

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The Depression Advantage

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Depression, like other mental illnesses, is rarely seen as a good thing. While many can articulate positive things about having a mental illness (or knowing someone who does), the illness itself is almost never ...

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Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Bobbe Tyler, author, nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator for Lucasfilm Ltd, has written a book of the type, and in the style, that has kept her alive all these years. Her book, Searching ...

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Unhealthy Self-Talk: Yelling at Myself

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

I felt like the magazine was yelling at me. As I read the borrowed copy of “Runner’s World,” article after article made me feel like I was not running enough. I identify myself ...

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Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most difficult conditions for anyone to bear. Many who encounter life-threatening events or situations that threaten physical or emotional safety become burdened by a variety of intense ...

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

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 ...

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Media’s Damaging Depictions of Mental Illness

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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 ...

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Top Tips To Keep You Healthy and Working Out

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

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 ...

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10 Reasons You Don’t Listen

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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 ...

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10 Reasons You Can’t Say How You Feel

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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 ...

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