By: Catherine Pearson\Huffpost At the start of the new year, my husband and I were reflecting about what we hope for our two kids both now and as they grow up. Rather quickly, we agreed that we just want them to be happy, whatever paths they take. It sounded nice when we said it, andContinue reading “Trying To Be Happier Won’t Work. Here’s What Will, According To Science.”
Tag Archives: Mental Health
Uncle Frank, COVID, and the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Crisis
Bill Smith/Theadvocate.com The recently released movie Uncle Frank gutted me. It’s the story of Frank Bledsoe, the cool uncle to his teenage niece, Beth, who Frank encourages to find a world bigger than the repressed society where they grew up in rural South Carolina in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. Closeted to his family and battling addiction,Continue reading “Uncle Frank, COVID, and the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Crisis”
Kanye West’s 2020 apology, Kim Kardashian’s plea and a harsh truth about mental health
Society now encourages people to be open about their mental health struggles, but the world remains confused and disgusted by people with severe mental illness. People like me. As West himself said, pushing on severely mentally ill people only makes the situation worse.Adrian Lam / NBC News By Nylah Burton, freelance writer/NBC NEWS Iconic rapperContinue reading “Kanye West’s 2020 apology, Kim Kardashian’s plea and a harsh truth about mental health”
Why People With These 3 Personality Traits Are The Hardest To Love
. By Dr. Seth Meyers Most people encounter a difficult person and call them “crazy” or “awful,” but there are actually clinical terms that therapists use to describe them. If a person demonstrates a pattern of difficult, frustrating behavior over time, there is a good chance that the individual in question has what therapists callContinue reading “Why People With These 3 Personality Traits Are The Hardest To Love”
30 Positive Quotes To Help You Rid Your Life Of Negativity And Live Like An Optimist
By: Mehruba Chowdhury/Your Tango.com Look on the bright side. With all that’s going around in the world and maybe even in your personal life, it can be difficult to stay optimistic. Still, we must somehow try to find ways to be optimistic no matter what life throws at you. It is easy to fall victimContinue reading “30 Positive Quotes To Help You Rid Your Life Of Negativity And Live Like An Optimist”
Book: Is Trump mentally ill? Or is America? Psychiatrists weigh in.
Review of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” by Bandy X. Lee (ed.), “Twilight of American Sanity” by Allen Frances, and “Fantasyland” by Kurt Andersen. Sara Gironi Carnevale for The Washington Post) Gone are the days when euphemisms about President Trump’s mental health insulated the man like so many padded walls. Erratic. Unpredictable. Unstable. Unmoored. Temperamentally unfit. This was whatContinue reading “Book: Is Trump mentally ill? Or is America? Psychiatrists weigh in.”
Sarah Palin’s delusional blame game: Obama isn’t responsible for her son’s domestic violence charge
Palin implies that her son Track, arrested for assaulting his girlfriend this week, has PTSD from combat By: Mary Elizabeth Williams/Salon Moving forward in what appears to be a campaign to win the prize for Most Incoherent Human in America, Sarah Palin this week followed up her meme-worthy epic poem of an endorsement for DonaldContinue reading “Sarah Palin’s delusional blame game: Obama isn’t responsible for her son’s domestic violence charge”
5,000 Japanese teachers suffer from mental illness
More than 5,000 teachers in Japan had to take sick leave during the last fiscal year because of depression and other mental disorders, a government survey said. The study was conducted by Japan’s Education Ministry on teachers at public elementary, junior and senior high schools, and special schools. While 8,544 teachers had taken sick leave, 62 percent (5,274 teachers) had to take some time off fromContinue reading “5,000 Japanese teachers suffer from mental illness”
After The Affair
Cheating happens more often than you might think. How do couples get past it? Sam and Mari had been married for two years when Mari learned Sam was having an affair with a co-worker. Sam was working incredibly long hours in his job as a first year law associate at a very large firm. InContinue reading “After The Affair”
