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”
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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.
The man who loved lobster
There was once a man who loved lobster so much he couldn’t stop eating it. He was surrounded by stinking lobster carcasses because he couldn’t take the time away from eating to clean them up. They stunk to high heavens. No one wanted to be near him and his lobster carcasses. Every time he startedContinue reading “The man who loved lobster”
The Shrink’s Links: The Yellow Wallpaper
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. This hundred-and-some-odd-year-old short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is often regarded as a classic of feminist literature, but it’s much more than that. It’s a terrifying horror story that challenges the subjugation mental patients still experience from their doctors. A woman suffering from post-partum depression isContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Yellow Wallpaper”
The Shrink’s Links: The Best Of Apophenia
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. In case you haven’t noticed, people are on the internet a lot these days. There are fears that it will affect their mental health. It’s a good thing we have Danah Boyd, geek extraordinaire, to figure it out for us. Read her blog, Apophenia, which, incidentallyContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Best Of Apophenia”
When Madness knocks, don’t answer
When people try to stop the madness, they often expect to reduce the frequency of episodes. The want to stop having negative thoughts, anxieties, urges to use drugs, unwarranted guilt, paranoia, or impulses to do what they’ll regret. When they go to therapy and these things don’t stop, they get discouraged and figure nothing canContinue reading “When Madness knocks, don’t answer”
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