Still Relevant for Our Times Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. [...]
Jane Chin, Ph.D.
Paranoid Personality Disorder is characterized as follows by the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 (PDF) – At least three of the following: excessive sensitivity to setbacks and rebuffs; tendency to bear grudges persistently, i.e. refusal to forgive insults and injuries or slights; suspiciousness and a pervasive tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly [...]
We’re talking openly about bullying, but bullying still happens, and its age has gotten younger and younger. Children are hurting and cutting themselves because of what other children are doing to them — and because adults are blind to what children are doing to each other or don’t know what we’re supposed to be doing [...]
You’re approaching the first anniversary of your diagnosis. How can you celebrate being diagnosed bipolar (or depressed, or set free of abuse, or anything else, for that matter)? You’d celebrate your first anniversary the same way you’d celebrate the anniversary of the 1st year of a new life: 1. Give recognition to how far you’ve [...]
If you’re like me, you live in your head most of the time. Even if your head is a pleasant place to spend a lot of time in, it’s healthy to “get out of your head” once in a while. Daily, actually. If you are someone who suffers from clinical depression, then getting out of [...]
I was the guest for Bruno LoGreco‘s Ask The Coach twitter chat, a weekly feature of relationship, health, and life topics. I’ve edited this to make it easier to read outside of Twitter. Also: since on Twitter we are limited to 140 characters, we use shorthand (U for “you”, biz for “business”, R for “are”, [...]
I went out for an errand shortly after learning of well known, popular social media personality Trey Pennington‘s death this morning and seeing a streaming wall of condolence tweets. I was still thinking about Trey’s death when I finished my errand and was driving home. I don’t know Trey personally. But I know people who [...]
