I posted something like this last year, but it bears repeating. Contrary to popular belief, suicide rates do not peak at Christmas time. Here in Western New York, as elsewhere, they peak in April. So does all kinds of psychiatric hospitalization, depression and relapses of addiction. Why is this so, when hopes of Spring abound?Continue reading “Reacknowledgment: April is the Cruelest Month”
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The Shrink’s Links: NYS Department of Health, Bureau of Managed Care Division
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Having no health insurance can kill you, but having insurance can frustrate you half to death. Many of the calls I get from prospective clients are people with insurance, but, for whatever reason, their insurance will not cover them to see me. Every other therapist IContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: NYS Department of Health, Bureau of Managed Care Division”
The Shrink’s Links: Movie Review of Ways of Seeing
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Most movie reviewers try to be the first to give you their take on up and coming movies. Not here at the Shrinks Links. Here we include those old classics that you might not have seen before, but are worth seeing now. One of these isContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Movie Review of Ways of Seeing”
The Shrink’s Links: The New Year’s Clean Sweep
Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship advice on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: The Clean Sweep Program I’ve posted it before, but this is a link that’s worth repeating in this season of setting goals and making resolutions. The Clean Sweep Program is a checklist of 100 items which,Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The New Year’s Clean Sweep”
Merry Christmas from the Shrink’s Links
This cartoon was found on the web site of a Boulder, Colorado therapist, Barry Erdman. I don’t know what he’s like in his office, but on his site he’s enough of a stitch to have a page devoted to mental health humor. Click here to go to the page.
The Shrink’s Links: The Advent Conspiracy
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. There are only twenty-four more shopping days until Christmas. What’s the matter? Not feeling very merry? Maybe it’s time to change the way you celebrate Christmas. Click here to join a conspiracy to make Christmas simpler and more meaningful.
The Shrink’s Links: Journal Therapy
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Has there ever been a shrink that does not suggest that her clients keep a journal? None that I ever knew of. Journaling can help you clarify your thoughts and feelings, know yourself better, release the intensity of feelings, and unlock creative capabilities. If you haveContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Journal Therapy”
The Shrink’s Links: The New Existentialists
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you were intrigued by my recent post about Martin Buber and the application of existentialism to psychology, then you might be interested in The New Existentialists blog. They seem to have stopped posting new articles, but the old ones are still there to read. ClickContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The New Existentialists”
The Shrink’s Links: Review of “Life Against Death”
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I recently finished reading Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown. Since it’s a book that only the most psychoanalytically-minded shrink will enjoy, I’ll summarize it for you, so you don’t have to read it. It goes like this. Babies experienceContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Review of “Life Against Death””
Some Things You May Not Know About Substance Abuse, Part 7: In the beginning of recovery, it doesn’t matter if you are self motivated. It just matters that you have motivation
In the beginning of recovery, it doesn’t matter if you are self motivated. It just matters that you have motivation Most people believe that internal or self motivation is the best kind of motivation and that people who are motivated for recovery to please others, whether they be the court, a spouse, a boss, orContinue reading “Some Things You May Not Know About Substance Abuse, Part 7: In the beginning of recovery, it doesn’t matter if you are self motivated. It just matters that you have motivation”
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