Author Archives: Keith R Wilson

The Shrink’s Links: Mary Gauthier

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I went to hear Mary Gauthier in a concert a few weeks ago. From an earlier life of abandonment, addiction, and despair, she harvested songs that say it all. She’s one of the good ones, the type who, even though she may have let go ofContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mary Gauthier”

The Shrink’s Links: What’s the Next Thing that Can Kill Me?

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. A lot can go wrong when you’re an astronaut. The anxiety of being shot into space could be overwhelming and confusing. In his book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, Commander Chris Hadfield says he would focus on the next thing that could kill him.Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: What’s the Next Thing that Can Kill Me?”

The Shrink’s Links: Long Distance Relationships

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Here’s something I bet you didn’t know, I didn’t. Despite what many people believe, research shows: • Couples in long distance relationships do not break up at any greater rate than more traditional, geographically close, couples. •Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Long Distance Relationships”

The Shrink’s Links: Moral Injury

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I knew a fellow who fought the Iraq War from the comfort and safety of an easy chair, piloting a drone that destroyed dozens of buildings with people in them. He was never at risk for anything more serious than tendonitis, yet he emerged from thatContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Moral Injury”

The Shrink’s Links: Car Talk

I was grieved to have learned that Tom Magliozzi, the co-host of Car Talk, recently died. I remember him for his marital advice, as much as I do for what he taught me about cars. Here’s a bit of his wisdom: I have my own law of marriage. It is more important to be happyContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Car Talk”

The Shrink’s Links: Quiet

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you would rather read a book than go to a party, read Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. You won’t feel so peculiar. You will learn to value yourself, even if our culture, by and large, doesn’tContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Quiet”

The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’ve seen Ken Burns’ newest documentary, The Roosevelts, you know about the part where FDR was stricken with polio. He woke up one morning, unable to move his legs. What followed was a terrifying and painful ordeal. It took doctors weeks to diagnose the problemContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help”