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It’s extraordinarily lucky that my narcissists aren’t the charming type. No, mine are the type that piss everybody off in their egotistical zeal to be “better than,” to proselytize and then to live in haughty isolation from everyone else who is “going

After the devastation of Game of Thrones and its critics’ aftermath, what sane adult has the bandwith for end of-year stuff? I feel like my head is popping off: teens in crisis are marching in like so many White Walkers and I feel bereft of things to say to them. ...

Many of us ADHDers are lucky enough to have not just ADHD, but anxiety as well. #blessed There are different explanations for why ADHD and anxiety often go together....

We ask people with impaired reason to consent to treatment to try to re-establish their sanity.  Are they even capable of making

Most daughters first recognize the toxicity of their childhood experiences by focusing on their mother’s treatment of them; that’s the issue that is front and center-stage. That’s the information that’s needed when everything seems fraught....

There are a lot of things that most people with ADHD have in common. Being easily distracted is on that list. Misplacing things is there as well. Speaking out of turn is another item....

Today I love that the dragon lives and that on this day I will find her winter lair and assist her in making her way to her summer harbor where she will rule the water again....

Recently I was hanging out with my folks for Mother’s Day. We had nearly the whole crew there – me, my parents, their dachshund Flash Gordon, Malti, and, of course,...

As an author and researcher who has communicated with thousands of trauma and abuse survivors, I’ve become all too familiar with the victim-shaming myths which cause retraumatization in those who