“The blues aint nothin’ but a pain in your heart” Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues She was right – and science has now caught up with a million songs of rejection to prove that love hurts. 40 people graciously volunteered to share their pain for an experiment conducted by social psychologist Ethan Kross, the… Read more »
Do you ever outgrow eating disorders? Do seniors and people later in life even develop them? The answer is yes – but a lot of people don’t believe it. Despite research and a mountain of anecdotal evidence suggesting that women over 40 are just as interested in their body images as younger women, plenty of people… Read more »
For some of us depression is a hard subject to talk about with others. It has been described as the “Dark Night of the Soul”. But that darkness is certainly not a place that anyone would want to spend their lives, let alone spend that time alone without anyone else knowing or helping. In an… Read more »
BigPharma hasn’t admitted doing anything wrong – but their mask got pulled off all the same this month. Drug company AstraZeneca agreed to settle lawsuits brought by 37 states – effectively they’re paying $67.5 million to avoid having to go to court and defend themselves against charges that their marketing was deceptive and their research… Read more »
Ladies and gentlemen, our culture has created a new kind of “mental illness” to suffer through. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal highlights the modern form of road rage with a twist – sidewalk rage. It’s being comically called “Pedestrian Aggressive Syndrome,” and likely is in a city near you. In Lower Manhattan,… Read more »
It’s one thing to live, it’s another to thrive. We know the difference, but do the institutions we put our kids through? There is an emerging field of study that focuses on what helps youth thrive rather than wither. A research study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence looked at the role a… Read more »
When it was published nearly 50 years ago, Carl Rogers’ work Client-Centered Therapy inspired a generation of therapists and transformed psychology. It has remained relevant all this time, but over the years some – especially those who advocate replacing therapists with anti-depressants – have suggested that Rogers was too idealistic. Putting the patients humanity at… Read more »
What schools need to succeed is a hot debate – but we all know that a school that doesn’t have what it needs will fail. What we don’t know, what we’re just beginning to ask, is: what impact does a failing school have on a child’s mental health? A recent study published in the… Read more »
Likely you are one of millions of Americans who dread the sound of your morning alarm clock. The electronic rooster goes off early for too many – who fell asleep too late – and did not stay asleep for too long. As a result we fill our abdomens with espresso and Red Bull, and the… Read more »
Chances are you are like millions of American– eat more, not less– when stressed. Stress increases cortisol. Cortisol increases appetite. And we all know: the cookie jar, noisy chip bags, and drive thrus seem to be inevitable consequences once the cortisol levels start raging in your body. Or are they so inevitable? Stress eaters, meet… Read more »
