Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts

By Mike Leary There are a lot of important answers on here. I am going to take a different tack for those who stumble on this post and have decided not to use the obvious skills of those trained in such critical matters. Having been suicidal a couple of times and having my brother intervene, [...]

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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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Independence

Dear Daughters of Tiger Mothers: As much as you struggle in this emotional war of guilt, know that your mothers who wage wars were once where you are, their free will bound so tightly at such a young age that their expressions of love had long been rotting until the shape of their love has [...]

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Self-Sabotage: Why We Do It

Most of us have “done ourselves in” at some point of our lives; just as we get close to something good, someone wonderful — we do something to sabotage ourselves. For people who are serial self-saboteurs, how can you break this habit? You can break a habit of self-sabotage IF AND ONLY IF: you find [...]

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Catfish (The Movie) and Internet People

So we watched Catfish, the movie, last week. I think the events it depicted were probably true… that is, I don’t think this is something that is mostly or even 100% “fiction.” But I also believe that parts of the movie were probably “redone” for dramatic effect. Linda Zhao’s provided the links for further reading [...]

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Antidepressants and Placebos

Recently on Quora there were 2 articles published on the high levels of “placebo effect” on symptoms of depression, which caused one article to question the use of antidepressants. This prompted another article (written by a future physician) that examined the critiques brought forth by the original article. The two articles are: Anti-Depressants May Be [...]

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The Single Cell Knows [Redux]

When we have emotional pain/trauma so intense that it could shatter bones, the most yielding of ourselves – the soft, connective tissues of our bodies step in to absorb as much pain as they could absorb, such that we can muster up a smile on our faces day after day, such that we can go [...]

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A View from Negativity

I’m not going to say or presume that everyone is “negative” the same way, so I can only speak about one aspect of negativity. I’m related to someone who can be labeled “negative”. If I do my best to speak from this one person’s perspective, here’s what I’d say about why a negative person has [...]

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