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 Most of us are familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD (deservedly) gets a lot of attention, largely focused on soldiers returning from service. But trauma comes in many forms,...

  I asked some of my autistic friends, and this is what they had to say: Because I forget that it matters to you when I’m focusing on what you are saying....

The New York Times ran an article on March 10 that’s been getting a lot of attention on Facebook. I just saw it yesterday or I’d have written this sooner. ...

What do you do when you realise your own mother is trying to steal everything your little sister holds dear? It’s not a new thing. My mother has been insanely jealous of her youngest daughter,...

Do you feel like you don’t have a voice in your relationship? Does your partner always have to have the last word?...

Often referred to as “getting in your own way” self-sabotage implies that you are doing harm to yourself even though there are better options. Examples

You might have to communicate differently and get serious about your limits. Parenting teens is a challenge, especially when it comes to communicating with them. Sometimes, it seems like they’re...

Today I love my backup computer since my good computer has chosen this day to have a seizure fit and just sit there blank screened and half powered down, ignoring it’s on and off switch and being a pain....

Of all the things I hear from readers, by far the most common is this: “I cannot believe I married my mother after all. I thought my husband was totally different but,...

More people today are concerned more about cultural stress than about personal stress. They are more stressed out by the conflict between Democrats and Republicans or the problem of race relations in America than they are about their marital difficulties,...

Have you ever experienced a traumatic situation? Trauma is a powerful word.  Many people almost stagger when I mention that I believe they have experienced “trauma.”...

There’s an emphasis on teaching social skills to those with Asperger’s or NLD. There are different ways of looking at why those who are neurodivergent could benefit from learning these skills: one can see it as “fixing” someone who is not good enough at a “normal” process,...

My husband and I are not great at teaching discipline. We’re also not great at schedules. We don’t have a good routine, our kids don’t always brush their teeth, and sometimes they wear the same underwear two days in a row....

Who doesn’t want a job where they have lots of control over how they perform their duties and lots of support from their colleagues? Pretty much no one. But it turns out these factors may be especially important for people with ADHD....

According to a recent study, paraphilic attractions (kinks and fetishes) are more common than most people might think.

Okay, I alluded to this a little while ago, but now I’m coming clean. There was some issues with my heart that just about killed me. No,...