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Today I Love Being Back Home
Today I love being back home and easing gently back into the comfort of my life in the thriving bay city of Owen Sound. I love this feisty little place...
Emotional Numbness and Depression: Will It Go Away?
Even as we don’t like pain, it is a reminder that we are alive and have a steady pulse. Worse than heartbreak or rage can be the sensation of numbness,...
How to Leave a Narcissist or Abuser
Once in love with a narcissist, it’s not easy to leave. Despite the abuse and your unhappiness, you may be ambivalent about leaving because you still love your partner, have...
Podcast: The Warning Signs of Bipolar and Schizophrenia
In general, people with mental illness aren’t perfectly fine one day and suddenly symptomatic the next. It often feels that way to people with bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia, but...
Self-Medicating with Knitting Therapy: A Guest Post on How Craft Heals
Jennifer Hoyden embraces knitting therapy. In this guest post, she shares her own experience along with the psychological research that explains how knitting heals. Furthermore, she looks at how gender...
Elmwood Ave
It was a street. Not a wide street. They put up signs for parking only on one side. But it was a long street, stretching through four towns, from...
A Plea To Keep My Husband Alive
As told to Dr. Michelle Maidenberg by Elissa Hart Peer: My husband Zvi (known as Vic) is on dialysis and needs a kidney donor to survive. I am not a...
Other Practices That Don’t Feel Like Self-Care But Are
We tend to think of self-care as another word for pampering. And that’s true: Pampering practices can absolutely be part of caring well for ourselves. Maybe that’s getting a massage...
Helping Someone Who May Be Suicidal
Guest blogger Aimee Daramus asked to share her post to promote awareness of suicide prevention resources. In the wake of the recent suicide of Sydney Aiello, a survivor of the shooting at...
How Childhood Trauma Results in Depression and Unhappiness in Adulthood
I have talked about childhood trauma a lot in previous articles so I won’t go into the mechanism at length here. But in short, our experiences and environment in our...
Do Opposites Really Attract?
News flash! Just about everyone thinks that opposites attract — but they don’t. Many relationship experts write that people seek partners whose traits complement their own. It’s a myth that...
Cruel Words: Why Do We ‘Treasure’ Them?
A hundred compliments may be paid, enjoyed and swiftly forgotten but we will treasure one cruel word for a lifetime. Why? Shouldn’t it be the other way ’round? As I...
Childhood Emotional Neglect Took Your Voice Away: How to Take it Back
In my work as a psychologist, I have discovered a most amazing thing. Scores of people had something vital robbed from them in childhood. And very, very few of them...
Very Grand Emotions: How Autistics and Neurotypicals Experience Emotions Differently
Characterizations of people with autism, especially adults with Asperger’s Syndrome, often reflect a profile of a stoic, unfeeling, emotionless automaton. The only emotion often ascribed to autistics, especially by the...
Why I hate Alzheimer’s
To say I hate a disorder as a therapist is a big deal for me. I specialize in personality disorders and have found beauty and giftedness where most see dysfunction....
Fostering: 5 Things We Wish We’d Have Done Differently
My husband and I were lucky when we started fostering. We had experience working with kids who’d been through trauma and kids who had behavioral disorders. We’d worked with difficult...
Let Me Get Back To You
Dear reader, I have had a very intense week. I started some med changes yesterday and took two 45 minute naps today. My point is that I cannot think clearly...
How It’s Going
“So how do you think it’s going, Leah?” I’ve just sunk my frazzled body into one of the leather chairs in Paola, my therapist’s, room. She’s around my age and...
“Dorm Rat”: The Military’s Bias against Singles with No Kids. Guest Post by Dale Nyhus
[Bella’s intro: I’ve been studying housing discrimination against single people for a long time. My colleagues and I found that rental agents are biased against renting to people who are...
“Proving” That You’re Trying With ADHD
One of the most common ways ADHD gets interpreted is by people thinking that ADHDers “aren’t trying.” People think to themselves “oh, she would’ve paid more attention if she cared”...
Childhood Trauma May Affect Brain Structure, Leading to More Severe Depression
Childhood trauma may alter the structure of the brain in a way that makes clinical depression more likely to be severe and recurrent, according to new research published in The...
Study: Teens Who Choose Solitude Know What’s Best for Them
Young people who choose solitude may be doing what is best for themselves, according to a new study published in the Journal of Adolescence. The findings suggest that spending a...
Infection in Pregnancy Tied to Greater Risk of Autism, Depression in Kids
Individuals whose mothers were hospitalized for an infection during pregnancy are at greater risk for autism and depression, according to a new Swedish study of nearly 1.8 million children. “The...
REM Sleep Disorder Linked to Parkinson’s
In a new multi-center study of more than 1,200 people, Canadian researchers discovered rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder is a strong predictor of Parkinson’s disease. The study, led...
Eating Breakfast with Parents Tied to Better Body Image for Kids
A new study has found that consistently eating breakfast as a family might promote positive body image for children and adolescents. “We know that developing healthy behaviors in adolescence, such...
Altered Neuron Growth May Be Why Some Depressed People Don’t Respond to SSRIs
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the most commonly prescribed medication for major depressive disorder (MDD), yet scientists still do not understand why they don’t work in nearly 30 percent...
