Why Many People Do Not Seek Help for a Mental Health Problem
Most individuals who have a serious, continuing mental health problem do not seek professional help. Why not? Studies show many reasons. One is a lack of awareness of the problem – common in individuals who have a personality disorder, a psychotic disorder, anorexia,...
From the Perspective of a Tree: The Value of Reading Books
If we read books, we get to live a thousand lives. In living those other lives, we acquire new perspectives — we grow as a person. I thought about the power of books after reading The Overstory, a masterpiece by Richard Powers. This fictional story weaves...
Coping with the Prospect of Death
I recently listened to a new song: Roger Ebert. I learned about the song from a Facebook post by the son of a man with a recently diagnosed deadly disease. The song is about the last words of Roger Ebert, famous movie critic, who died in 2013. Just before...
Think of Alternative Ideas and Words
When I teach students how to help eliminate some behavior, like nail biting, I preach that clients need to develop an alternative behavior that serves the same functions as the one they want to eliminate. For instance, if a bloke wants to stop ruinous drinking, he may...
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