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If you are over the age of fifty and you read articles on PsychCentral, you may be ready for a new approach to finding satisfaction and happiness. During the past...
Being Volunteered: When Codependence Conflicts with Good Boundaries
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Book Review: Treating the Traumatized Child
Trauma, especially for a child, can often be so overwhelming that it encourages the therapist to focus solely on the individual. Yet often, the individual lives within a family system...
The Psychology Behind Why We Love Scary Movies
I never have to think twice when someone asks me what my favorite holiday is. Candy galore, carved pumpkins, haunted houses, crazy costumes, and best of all, scary movie marathons....
Dysfunction Interrupted-Eliminate Loneliness and Find Your Tribe
Lonely people suffer from higher levels of depression, despair and anxiety. They also die younger. They are more likely to commit suicide. If this isn’t enough, studies indicate that they...
More Than Chemicals: The Difference Between Pleasure and Happiness
The experience of pleasure is distinct from the experience of happiness. Quite distinct. With pleasure, a dopamine “spike” occurs in response to an acute momentary reward. The experience feels wonderful...
Today I Love Big Ideas For Reorganizing
Today I love big ideas for reorganizing things so that there is room for everything and room left over for us. I love that part of the discussion always ends...
What it Means to Have Good Communication Skills in Your Relationship
Probably the single most important contribution you can make to your marriage is to be aware of your own feelings. What’s the second most important contribution you can make to...
Mining the Past to Sincerely Support Ourselves
Our past contributes to who and how we are today. It shapes us in so many different ways, some obvious, some subtle, some surprising. We are shaped by our early...
I’m No Psychopharmacologist
The summer of 2018 went fine. Tommy, my 13-year-old son, was enrolled in several summer camps, which he enjoyed; we had no discernible immediate family issues, and I was in...
7 Reasons Why Good People Do Bad Things
This article is for the rule followers, the dependable, the overly responsible, and the eager to please. The ones who know what the rules are (legal, social, moral, and economical),...
Woman’s March On The Pentagon
“War, huh, yeah, What is it good for, Absolutely nothing, War, huh, yeah” Barret Strong / Norman Whitfield Today is the first day of two of the Woman’s March On The...
Does Nostalgia Fuel Depression?
Ah, the good old days. If only I could go back and relive those moments. Nothing will ever be as good as that time with my friends as a teenager,...
The Strong Victim: Why Victims of Abuse Stay
There are many myths about victims of abuse, such as, they tend to be passive, easily manipulated, pushovers, doormats, etc. Never do you hear people describe victims of abuse, particularly,...
10 Tips to be a Better Listener
When people are upset, the words they use rarely convey the issues and needs at the heart of the problem. When we listen for what is felt as well as...
4 Things I Want People Without ADHD to Know
In a world of ideal mental health awareness, everyone would be a trained psychotherapist with extensive knowledge of ADHD symptoms. I wouldn’t have to explain my inattentive moments, my impulsive...
How To Live After Trauma
Trauma has a particularly destructive effect on our minds and consciousness. After trauma we experience problems with time, memory, self, keeping perspective. In my view we have no choice but...
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Mother and Daughter Elise, 36, has Asperger’s. She sits in her mother’s living room, researching the neurological implications of trauma spectrum disorders in early childhood development. Her mother, Linda, 58,...
Bipolar Irritability And Rage
If you live with bipolar disorder you have experienced irritability. It is that feeling like sandpaper on our brain. Everything bugs us. No one else can say the right thing....
PTSD Symptoms Improve Most When Patient Chooses Treatment
Individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who receive their preferred form of treatment — whether drugs or therapy — are more likely to improve compared to those who are randomly prescribed the...
How Schools Can Best Support Kids with ADHD
In a new paper, published in the Review of Education, U.K. researchers offer new guidelines on how school personnel can best help students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to improve academics...
Chronic Inflammation May Boost Genetic Risk of Alzheimer’s
While having the ApoE4 gene is a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), not all ApoE4 carriers develop the disease. But new research shows that ApoE4 coupled with chronic...
Using Virtual Reality as Tool to Foster Empathy
New research suggests emerging technology can be a useful tool to encourage empathy, helpful behavior, and positive attitudes towards marginalized groups. In this case, technology in the form of Virtual...
Parents Can Curb Kids’ Materialism
Parents who are worried about their kids being materialistic can curb these tendencies, according to new research. And that’s good news, as materialism has been linked to a variety of...
Migraine May Be Linked to ADHD in Adults
A new Danish study has found a link between migraine and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. The findings, published in the open access journal BMC Neurology, show the association is...
