New View of Hypochondria Replaces Worry with Rational Thoughts People who constantly worry about having an illness, even when medical exams find there’s nothing wrong, used to be...
Making Decisions We make decisions all day long, every day of our lives, so many decisions that we’d never be able to count them. Will we skip breakfast because we’re in a hurr...
Unplugging from Technology Gives Teens Room for Real Happiness Teenagers are being emotionally slammed by technology. A new study links anxiety, severe depression, suicide attempts...
Veterans Living in Darkness When Iraq veteran Kevin Powers writes about living in darkness, he means it physically and emotionally. After returning from combat in 2005, he spent da...
The Pursuit of Happiness Happiness is something humans pursue. It’s just in our nature. It’s so much a part of our species, especially Americans, that the founding fathers incl...
The Stress of Being a Constant High-Achiever Anxiety and Depression Caused by Academic Stress “Bright. Accomplished. Ambitious. At times anxious, deeply depressed, even hopeless....
How to Let Go of Bad Stress and Use Good Stress Let’s get over the myth that all stress is bad. A moderate degree of stress is natural. It’s what nudges us to get stuff done. ...
How to Create a Life that Honors Your Best Self Being happy, satisfied, content, joyful, optimistic, loving, emotionally and physically healthy - all the ways of “being” that s...
Self-Imposed Stress Students at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut have a lot going for them. For some students at the Ivy League college, they may also have some things goi...
Brain Science Gives Clues on Enduring Love Marriage and other long-term relationships are complex, often triggering emotions and reactions that can be surprising to ourselves and o...
Spiraling Worries and Obsessions The main character in the book Turtles All the Way Down is a 16-year-old girl named Aza Holmes who lives in Indianapolis and struggles with all the...
WHO declares depression the leading cause of ill health around the globe For British writer Johann Hari, his own struggle with depression set him off on a global search for answers...
Dangerous Isolation and Rising Rate of Male Suicide American men are being hit hard with cultural, social and technological changes. The emotional and physical toll is showing up i...
Marriage Has Become Disposable The hope for “happily ever after” creates a glow at every wedding. But this idealist vision of joining lives for richer or poorer, in sickness an...
Time Spent on Video Games is Concerning You may be worried that your son, daughter, husband, brother, coworker or friend may be spending too much time on video games. You’re not ...
While much of the study of human psychology focuses on what is wrong with us, positive psychology focuses on what is right with us. Specifically, positive psychology looks at the c...
“It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” Sheryl Crow may or may not have been singing the praises of gratitude with this line, but it sums up the na...
Saving Talk Therapy: An Essential Form of Healing Talk therapy can be a rambling conversation when a person shares distressing life experiences, hopes, dreams and troubles in a jum...
Allowing the Pain of Grief to Take Its Time Loss is part of life. Losing a loved one sets off the experience of grief in different ways for each person, and honoring that individua...
A disturbing increase in teen depression and suicide is being linked to their use of smartphones. A new study has found that these troubling mental health issues rose suddenly begi...
It’s natural and healthy to want to be a better person and do more good in the world, and the new year is an obvious time to make a plan to do that. The common New Year’s resol...
New thinking on self-confidence turns the concept upside down. Of course, it’s important, even critical, for our physical and mental health that we believe in ourselves. And it i...
The portraits of 99 people could have been taken off the walls of the family living room. Perhaps they were. They are mothers, fathers, children, teenagers, grandmothers, grandfath...
One Family's Journey Through Family Therapy You get the feeling you’re in the room with two therapists and the Brice family trying to make their home more peaceful in the book ...
Love at First Sight Two people fall in love and want to live together. They may have fallen in love at first sight or been pulled along by the current of “chemistry.” Sometimes...
Mark and Stacey found themselves, after just two years of marriage, facing an all-too-common issue – a difference in sexual desire that created confusion and resentment. Therapis...
Depression: One Illness with Many Manifestations Depression may be one illness, with a defined set of criteria, but it takes many different manifestations. The experience of depres...
Eating disorders are complex illnesses, which makes the treatment of them hard. This is the experience of one individual struggling to recover, told through the lens of one morning...
I'm So Depressed Every now and then I hear say; “I’m so depressed”, or “I’ve really felt depressed lately, and just don’t know what to do.” I don’t think that perso...
There are many different schools and styles of therapy. But, consistently it has proven that the quality of the relationship between counselor and client is critical to the succe...
Living With PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD affects millions of people around the globe. Some people recover quickly, while others cope with it for many years. There a...
What does it feel like to live with the anxiety? For some people, it’s never-ending worry. For some it’s panic in certain situations, while for others it’s like listening t...
For me, my anxiety always flares up when I get on a plane. I just can’t make myself do it. My palms sweat, and cold shivers run down my back. I feel my heart racing so hard I wan...
Can a little bit of anxiety do us good? That’s the question that Eleanor (name changed for confidentiality) asked herself. After years of therapy she found the severe and crippli...
You Can Increase Your Baseline Happiness I recently attended a superb seminar titled, Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Well-being, presented by Jonah Paquette, Ph....
It is often said that medication alone is not sufficient in the treatment of many psychological problems. Medication can treat ?symptoms but not the underlying issues that contribu...
Anxiety and Depression Increasing in College Students College may be an adventure, a transition to independence and an opportunity for many kinds of enjoyment. But the pressures of...
5 Simple Strategies to Get Out of a Bad Mood When anxiety, depression or some other negative mood threatens to put a shadow over your day, remember that people just like you have f...
Sticks and stones may break my bones, But names will never harm me. -- English proverb Sticks and Stones: Verbal Bullying is Harmful You’ve heard this adage before. For generatio...
What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence was introduced to mainstream culture in 1995 when psychologist Daniel Goleman presented it in his best-selling book Emotional...
