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Mindfulness Meditation Can Help You Make Smarter Decisions
How many times have you stayed in a negative situation because of an exorbinant amount of time, effort, heartache, or money you’ve already invested? Whether it’s the energy you’ve put into a doomed...
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How Often Do Long-Term Sober Alcoholics and Addicts Relapse?
Whenever a celebrity is arrested, overdoses, or dies from drugs or alcohol, there is usually renewed media interest in addiction. Most of the time, this means that experts on substance use disorders...
View ArticleMisdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder
Across the web you'll find increasing attention being given to the identification of bipolar mood symptoms and patterns. Solid educational information is important for those who are concerned that they...
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Are Private Schools Bad for America?
In the Sunday, Sept. 1 2013 Tampa Bay Times newspaper, Allison Benedikt pleaded with parents to keep their children in public schools. “You are a bad person if you send your children to a private...
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Single on Valentine's Day
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, a day that can cause some, especially those who are single, to have feelings of sadness and anxiety. TV commercials selling diamonds, flowers, chocolate, and even cars...
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Hoffman’s OD, Fallacies of Conventional Neuroscience
I’m afraid I have to take issue with my Blog colleague Dan Mager in his article “Who Is an Addict?” I have already addressed the disease fallacy in my own blog on Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And I won’t...
View ArticlePsychological Clutches: Lead-Foot Disengagement As a Crutch
Woody Allen said, “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”Before it’s over we often find relief from all that misery, loneliness and suffering by taking a...
View Article7 Ways to Show Your Child Love on Valentine's Day
When you say, “I love you” to your child on Valentine’s Day or any other day of the year, it is wonderful. Your child feels assured that you care. Parents often fail to use these words either because...
View ArticleConfiding & Flirting-The Same Thing?
Dear Dr. G., I am a 15 year old female high school student. My friend has recently accused me of flirting with her new boyfriend. Her new boyfriend has now become my friend and I don't think I flirt...
View ArticleWhat Does Our Zombie Attraction Say About Us?
We love zombies. Can't get enough of them. The mid-season premiere of the AMC television series The Walking Dead had more viewers than the Olympics during the same time slot among people ages 18-49....
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How Do You Spell “Success”?
“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.” Thomas Merton.The notion that money can’t...
View ArticleA Brain on Fire
One morning in 2009, young New York Postreporter Susannah Cahalan woke up certain that she had bedbugs. Something just felt wrong. She was overcome with a desire to scour everything in her tiny...
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3 Things for Which I Am Grateful
Welcome to Part 3 of my Surviving Generation Stress series. In Part 1 of this series I introduced the concept of Generation Stress and explained the life changing benefits of practicing 5 Minutes of...
View ArticleThe Value of the Gap Year
The gap year has become a hot topic in college transitions. The New York Times, Time Magazine, Forbes, MSNBC, and countless other media outlets have covered this growing trend. They highlight exciting...
View ArticlePhony Apologies
Business leaders, politicians, and celebrities have learned the importance of offering apologies. But guided by their publicists and spin-doctors, their words have become routine and unconvincing. “It...
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How to Build a Better Batter
“I’ve spend my career studying plasticity in the visual system,” says University of California Riverside (UCR) psychology professor Aaron Seitz. He has always wanted to apply his vision research in a...
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Ego: Ten Myths You’ll Be Relieved to Debunk
1. Ego is one thing: Our culture inherits the concept of ego from Eastern Philosophy and Freud, which have two different things in mind. Ego means “I.” In Eastern philosophy Ego refers to the named...
View Article10 Guidelines for Stopping Cyberbullying
It’s a fact of life in the 21st century that kids are connected to each other 24/7. A generation ago, young people who were bullied in school could count on hours spent at home as a respite from...
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Dignity in Education (Part 2)
CHAPTER FIVE: DIGNITY IN EDUCATION (Part 2)Girls and BullyingThanks to books like Queen Bees and Wannabes (on which the film Mean Girls was based) and Odd Girl Out, we now recognize that bullying is an...
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