Jane Chin, Ph.D.

Paranoid Personality Disorder: Relationship on Egg Shells

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 [...]

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Why Children Hurt and Cut Themselves

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 [...]

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Where We Came From, Where We Want to Go

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 [...]

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Getting Out of My Head

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 [...]

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Stress and Depression: AskTheCoach Chat

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”, [...]

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Thoughts on a Suicide

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 [...]

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The Roots of Stress

Am I the best person to talk with you about stress? Because I’m one of those anxious, over-thinking, making-it-all-too-complicated, high-strung people who seems to keep aiming her boat upstream and not “merrily down the stream”. My husband jokes about me having the attention span of a fly with attention deficit. I personally prefer the visual [...]

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How to Deal with a Clingy Overbearing Mother

A question on Quora asked, “How can one deal with an overbearing, overly clingy mother without hurting her feelings or compromising one’s boundaries? I am my mother’s only child. I love her to death and I am her whole world. I’m also 30 years old and I’ve lived in different states for years, have a [...]

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