Keith R Wilson

What Color are Your Glasses?

You know what rose colored glasses are, right? People who are said to be wearing rose colored glasses are said to be seeing the world as only pleasant and happy. We scoff at people wearing rose colored glasses. They are naive, sanguine, and overly optimistic. But, glasses come in all colors. They all distort yourContinue reading “What Color are Your Glasses?”

The Shrink’s Links: Sleep Restriction

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Sleep Restriction Therapy is counter-intuitive, ingenious, and requires a high degree of self discipline. It also works. Click here to get the instructions

How to Live Up to Your Potential

Let me introduce you to another object in my office: the jade plant. This plant, I think you will agree, is a beautiful specimen; as good as a jade plant can be. It is lush and green and healthy. It propagates well. It has lived a long time. Let me show you another plant, aContinue reading “How to Live Up to Your Potential”

The Shrink’s Links: After Virtue

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’re interested in living a good life, you first need to know what the good life is. To figure this out, try studying philosophy. There’s no better person to do this with than Alasdair MacIntyre, who wrote After Virtue. When you do philosophy, you can’tContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: After Virtue”

The Broken Window Theory of Personal Relationships

Go to any down-in-the-heels, crime-ridden, poverty-stricken inner city and you are certain to find one thing. Lots and lots of broken windows. Most of these broken windows will be in abandoned buildings, where no one appears to care and no one seems to be affected. Windows don’t break on their own, someone picked up aContinue reading “The Broken Window Theory of Personal Relationships”

The Shrink’s Links: Hallelujah

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. A twenty year old, suffering from severe anxiety and depression, gets up and signs Hallelujah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZDeJ14EZRk

The Shrink’s Links: Flow

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about how to stay in the zone, or, what he calls flow, in this Ted Talk. Click here to go to the website

The Shrink’s Links: Surviving Divorce

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’re going through a divorce, or would like to avoid one, this website has a lot of resources for you. Click here to find a meeting in your area.

The Shrink’s Links: Isabel Symptom Checker

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The Isabel Symptom Checker gives you access to a highly sophisticated medical diagnosis tool that is much more powerful than previously available symptom checkers. Using the latest searching technologies, the system can take a pattern of symptoms in everyday language and instantly compute from their vastContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Isabel Symptom Checker”

The Shrink’s Links: Overeaters Anonymous

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Overeaters Anonymous (OA) offers a program of recovery from compulsive overeating, binge eating and other eating disorders using the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA. Click here to find a meeting in your area.