Investing in Yourself: Financing a Career Change "The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get." Do you remember this poster phrase? It was supposed to be funny! And yet, for more and more working people, it's no longer a joke. Over the ...
Chronic Illness, Balance, and the World Wide Web Like so many of you, I live with chronic illnesses that have restricted my life. From first-hand experience, I know that, when you become physically ill, you do not also become emotionally or intellectually ill. ...
College Activities: Not-So-Incidental Learning So, you’re in college or off to college soon.
Big question: Are you having fun yet?
If the answer is “no,” what I say is this -- get yourself out of the classroom, your nose ...
Should I Work with My Spouse? MAN SEEKING WIFE/BUSINESS PARTNER
Successful businessman seeks life partner to share my entrepreneurial dream. Must believe in me and be supportive of the long hours required of a start-up venture. Nothing is too much for ...
What’s So Great about Summer Camp? Kids who are fortunate enough to go to summer camp are lucky indeed. Assuming that the program is safe and well run, summer camp can open a whole new world of friendship, interests, skills, and ...
Parenting and Sports: Bleacher Buddies I'm sitting on a bleacher again. I think I've clocked a million hours since my kids started participating in sports and things artistic. By now I'm a pro at it. I have my book, my ...
Adolescence: A Time of Growth and Change Adolescence in American and Western European cultures is a time of enormous emotional as well as physical changes. Although each child is an individual and grows and develops in his or her own unique way, ...
Single and Dating. . . Again! In the immortal words of Neil Sedaka, "breaking up is hard to do." But it isn't the hardest thing to do. Finding yourself newly single after an extended romantic relationship and facing that awful question ...
Finding, and Keeping, a Healthy Life Balance It's always the same story. A woman comes into my office feeling like she is having a "nervous breakdown" or as though her relationship is "on the rocks." The problem is rarely that serious and ...
Getting Along with Your College Roommate She was a nightmare! My first roommate and I could not have been more different had some sort of incompatibility test matched us. To her, the floor was a substitute for a closet, studies were ...
The Vicious Cycle of Adult ADD, Shame and Compulsive Sexuality Brian is an investment banker in his early forties. In graduate school, he first began to visit prostitutes, spend money on phone sex, masturbate compulsively and spend as much as five to 10 hours a ...
Psychosocial Treatments for Schizophrenia Antipsychotic drugs have proven to be crucial in relieving the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia — hallucinations, delusions, and incoherence — but are not consistent in relieving the behavioral symptoms of the disorder.
Even when patients ...
Adult Dating: From Attraction to Commitment (Part 1) Hooking Up
Attraction can get going rather quickly, often in the first contact, and often in a "split second." Contact is made and then lost and then reestablished. Eyes meet briefly; smiles are exchanged, as are ...
Making Conversation: A Skill, Not an Art Do cocktail parties strike terror in your heart? If so, you are not alone. Although the ability to converse with others comes naturally to some, it is a skill that most of us must develop.
Many ...
Keeping You Without Losing Him We had it all figured out back in the '70s: If it weren't for societal influences, men and women would be just alike, right?
Wrong. Over time, scientific studies have revealed that men and women ...
Celebrating June: How to Enjoy Your Children’s End-of-Year Events Only another parent will understand.
Every year I have the same June fantasy: The whole town assembles at the local football stadium. The ancient public address system wheezes to life. An animated voice fills the ...
Joining a Support Group In the past, I've discussed ideas and strategies for relieving loneliness. About 12 years ago, I began my studies of how people who experience troubling emotional symptoms like loneliness, anxiety, depression, mania and psychosis relieve ...
Enjoying the Winter Holiday Season No matter what your faith or cultural background, as the holiday season approaches, you may notice, as many people do, that instead of feeling a sense of warm anticipation, you feel a sense of dread. ...
Tips for Building Self-Esteem In my work, I sometimes feel that there is an epidemic of low self-esteem. Even people who seem to be very sure of themselves will admit to having low self-esteem, a feeling that often makes ...
How to Help When Someone You Love Is Fifty and Out of Work It's a familiar story in my practice these days. In the past year, I've seen perhaps a dozen couples in which the husband has been laid off after 15 to 20 years with the same ...
Anxiety, Worry, and Stress, Oh My: The Bugaboos of Modern Life Anxiety, worry, and stress are all afflictions of life in the modern world. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 10 percent of the American population, or 24 million people, suffer from anxiety ...
Depression Can Be Hazardous to Your Health But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in ...
How Our Social Network Helps Us Thrive One way that your attitude can affect your health is that a bad attitude can drive other people away. And interaction with other people is vital for your health. Human beings are social creatures. So ...
Persuasion and How to Influence Others Human relationships are based upon a largely unconscious system of give and take. "I will do this for you even if I won't get something in return right now, because you will 'owe me one' ...
