Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The emotions could use some better PR. They have been blamed for everything from each personal crisis to the insanity that is called this year’s election. We shrinks have mobilized the troops of rationality and have sharpened the swords of Stoicism, recast as Cognitive BehavioralContinue reading “Upheavals of Thought”
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Emotions: Do You Have a Choice?
Anger, fear, sadness, hopelessness, joy, hope, gratitude, back to anger, fear, and sadness, in no particular order and sometimes all together, at once. When your relationship is in trouble, you’re on an emotional roller coaster. Let’s take a step away and look at what emotions are and what, if anything, we can do about them.
Inside Out Inside Out
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you thought the Pixar movie, Inside Out, was pretty cool, you should also know that its depiction of the inner life of the mind closely follows most current psychological thinking about the way things work. Most current thinking, that is.
Check your Dashboard
I’d like to interrupt whatever else you might be doing, to remind you to check your dashboard; you’ll find there almost all the information you need to keep things running smoothly. No, I don’t mean the dashboard in your car, although you should be checking that regularly, as well; I mean your body’s dashboard. YouContinue reading “Check your Dashboard”
The Shrink’s Links:The Citizen Therapist Manifesto
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The other day, someone invited me to sign the Citizen Therapist Manifesto. This is a petition, already signed by thousands of therapists, expressing their alarm at the candidacy of Donald Trump, which they see as a threat to the well-being of their clients. Do you wantContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links:The Citizen Therapist Manifesto”
The Shrink’s Links: The Gervais Principle
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The Gervais Principle, named after Ricky Gervais, the creator of The Office, and coined by Venkatesh Rao, of the not as popular blog, Ribbonfarm, states that at the top of any organization are sociopaths, at the bottom are losers, and in the middle are the clueless.Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Gervais Principle”
What Can’t Be Hurt
If you were hurt by someone you love, it’s important to get real about the injury and account for all the damages inflicted: the common money the compulsive gambler spent, the trust the adulterer squandered, the confidence the abusive parent wrecked. It’s equally important to note the damages that were not done, the parts ofContinue reading “What Can’t Be Hurt”
The Shrink’s Links: Identity Design
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I hope you have met, at least once in your life, someone who can break it down and tell you how it is; someone who brings out the best in you, with an unerring moral compass, and can give you a good swift kick in theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Identity Design”
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