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Go Postal?
When people, especially educated people, think of crappy jobs, postal worker often makes the list. And yet when you stop to think about what really makes people happy in their career, letter carrier...
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Do You See What I See?
Jennifer was standing with a few coworkers at a work social function when she began noticing that she was sweating and her heart felt like it was going to beat out of her chest. She began to blush and...
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Is Your Relationship Broken? Eight Rays of Hope
By the time I see couples in my office, they have tried to do everything they can on their own to work through the difficulties they are encountering. They’ve run into a wall that is either caused by...
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Helping a Friend Who is Talking About Suicide
Having a friend who is contemplating suicide can be very scary. Your friend may try to swear you to secrecy, but don't make that promise. The best thing that you can do for your friend is to tell a...
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SUBSCRIBEFirst PersonCelebrity LivesFor InspirationThe Craft of WritingRoundups & ReviewsNewsQuotes06 Welcome to the Madhouse: Q&A with Psychiatrist Stephen SeagerOctober 9, 2014 | 0...
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The Canary as Leader
Earlier this week I was talking with a friend while doing my exercises. It's a bit of a ritual that we have developed when she started calling me every day some time after the Shiva ended (for my...
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So Many Hyper Kids, Such a Checkered History of Help
I visited a support group for the parents of hyper kids a long time ago. My son, at times anxious and impulsive, was, I’d been told, only “situationally hyperactive,” which wasn’t much help. But...
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Can Exercise Protect Your Brain from Depression?
A wide range of recent studies have found that physical activity can trigger neurobiological changes that may help protect your brain from depression.A September 2014 study from Sweden found that...
View ArticleConfessions of a Heavy Heart: Physical Weight and Secrets
People keep secrets mainly because the consequences of revealing the secrets can be damaging to themselves or others. Some feel ashamed and keep a secret for fear of being ridiculed or discriminated...
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Taking Offense
It seems that people are getting offended more easily.Perhaps that’s a good thing. For example, there’s ever less tolerance for a statement or action that could even vaguely be considered racist,...
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Happy National Coming Out Day
In college I took a class called New Queer Cinema, taught by the filmmaker Maureen Bradley. We watched Todd Haynes films and a musical about AIDS and other gay dramas where someone dies or goes to jail...
View ArticleIf You Want Lasting Love DON’T Bring This Home
Bob’s boss drives him crazy. She never just asks for what she wants. She always lectures and moralizes. To her every little thing is a moral issue about which she’s the world’s authority. She once...
View ArticleIs My Mother Abusive?
Dear Dr. G,I just got off skype with my dad, where he told me that my mum has started crying because I told her that I don’t want to come back home for the summer holidays because it’s boring back home...
View Article8 Ways Singles Are More Connected, Caring, and Generous
Yesterday, when I took a break from my work to walk along the glorious edge of the Pacific Ocean, I almost got into a fight. Two women walking behind me on the beach were discussing single people. One...
View ArticleWhy Are Older People More Conservative?
Older and younger generations have always clashed about values. Typically, these clashes result from younger people being more liberal, and older people more conservative. This is somewhat ironic since...
View Article2014 Day of the Girl
“Empowerment of and investment in girls are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights”-United...
View ArticleVirtual Dark Tourism: A Lesson from the Amanda Bynes Story
Recently, actress Amanda Bynes reportedly wrote on Twitter that a microchip in her brain made her tweet very hurtful things about her father....
View ArticleWill Mindfulness Become Another Self-Help Fad?
The past three decades have witnessed an explosion of self-help books and programs aimed at curing everything from motivation to cancer. The Secret is a prominent example. Currently, the mindfulness...
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