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Taking the Car Keys Away—Forever
It’s inevitable. At some point, it’s no longer safe for us to drive. Usually a function of age, illness often spins the clock hands much faster. As drivers, we know what an enormous change this will...
View ArticleWhen Your Child Doesn't Believe She Is Ill
It’s enormously frustrating when your adult child has a serious psychiatric disorder like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia—but refuses to accept that he is mentally ill. Many parents in this situation...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean When Passengers Are Injured in Turbulence?
It happens again and again. A plane hits severe turbulence. Passengers and crew members get injured. Six passengers and two flight attendants were hospitalized when a Cathay Pacific 747 hit turbulence...
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Riding Your Wave to Paradise Beach
by Laura Berger"There are basically two kinds of people in the world: Sufferers, and Learners."–Richard RoseOne day, you'll be comfortable. You’ll have all the money you need and will be living your...
View ArticleDiabulimia: One Woman's Tale of Recovery
Back in 2007 I contributed to a People Magazine article on diabulimia, which was then starting to attract mainstream attention. The subject of the article was a 26-year-old medical technician living in...
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Sleep: The Clean-Up Crew of a Dirty Mind
When you throw a party, you don’t clean up until everyone’s gone home.The brain parties every moment you are awake. While it’s being lively it makes a mess, like partiers everywhere. All living cells...
View ArticleSoutherners Today: Generosity in a Rural Community
A. Jordan Rothschild from the Life Paths Research Program is my guest blogger today. Southerners are known for their hospitality, manners, and overall community-oriented behavior, to the point that...
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Are Two Actual People Still Required for a Relationship?
Recapping “Her”If you don’t know, the much lauded Spike Jonze film “Her” is the tale of Theodore, a very lonely man in the final stages of a sad, ugly divorce. Feeling down, he decides to treat himself...
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The Light Within
Namaste!I sincerely believe that inherent in each of us is the light of love, wisdom, courage and compassion, which empowers us to transform our life, and the lives of those we touch. However, it is...
View ArticleConsidering the Universe as a Whole: We're Average in Size
Considering the Universe as a Whole: We’re About Average Size.Don’t listen to those astronomers.Some people have an inferiority complex about being smaller than average. Most people don’t like being...
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Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence: 4 Key Questions
Here we go again, down the rabbit hole of research, where we discover that some of our more cherished beliefs about ourselves are either dead wrong, or just partly right. Keep in mind that “we”...
View ArticleUnhappy Marriage? It Might Be Your Genes
A recent article in the APS Observer, “Genetically Ever After,” reviews the research on genetic influences on marriage, divorce, and marital satisfaction. The litmus test for determining the relative...
View ArticleThe Side of Learning Disabilities No One Considers
It’s always about the kids, right? They have a problem, a defect, a deficiency. Something is wrong with them. They’re not normal. We must fix them! Special classes, “accommodations,” and even worse,...
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Dreaming and Wakefulness in the Theater of the Brain
By the time we are three years old the mappings in the limbic-cortex are sufficiently established to create a three dimensional representational play. This is how human consciousness is organized. It...
View ArticleBipolar Disorder: Seeing the Signs
A patient of mine, Henry, recently told me his girlfriend asked “Is bipolar disorder ‘real’?” Bipolar disorder certainly was having a real effect on my patient’s life. But Henry’s girlfriend might have...
View ArticleSuicide: One of Addiction’s Hidden Risks
Anyone who cares about an addict has a long list of concerns, not the least of which is that addiction may take their loved one’s life. Mostly we fear getting word of a serious accident or injury or...
View ArticleWhat to Make of the Woody Allen Case?
In case you have been on another planet in the last few weeks, you will have seen the flurry of articles, denunciations, and opinion pieces, over allegations of “sexual abuse” made back in 1992 by...
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Failure and Ignorance: 2 Neglected Keys to College Success
I met this morning with a bright, motivated group of Psi Chi students at my school who are exploring “best practices” for college students. We’ve been talking topics including motivation, peer...
View Article5 Ways to Overcome Your Fear of Love
I recently wrote a blog titled “7 Reasons Most People are Afraid of Love.” Within hours, the post had tens of thousands of reads and thousands of social media shares – numbers that would double and...
View ArticleBrave Enough to Be Humble
As a leader, one of your most important traits is self-awareness—specifically knowing where your skills lie and knowing your limitations. The balance of pushing your growth and working within your...
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