I recently read that Australian swimming great Stephanie Rice felt depressed and irrelevant when she stepped away from competitive swimming. The sense of loss can be daunting for star athletes…
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Gary Gilmore was a psychopathic American. He started committing burglaries when he was a boy and ended up in reform school. When he was released, he upgraded his crimes to…
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I was telling a friend about something that happened to me at work when she uttered a wolf howl. I stopped talking and looked at her. She said she was…
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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…
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I interviewed three young adults who had each made serious suicide attempts as teens. The attempts included taking an overdose of drugs, jumping off a cliff, and self-cutting. All three…
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When I was a PhD student, a therapy instructor did something that I will never forget. First, she told us students that she had decided not to have a second…
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COVID-19 and government responses to it have created a high level of uncertainty. Will I get the virus? Will I lose my job (or my business)? Will my retirement savings…
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Nowadays there are many useful types of treatment for mental health problems. Forward thinkers occasionally develop new treatment methods. In the past, some innovative treatment methods went awry. Take trephining, for…
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Do you think of yourself as a perfectionist? If your perfectionism mostly helps you in life, keep going down that path. I call people in this category not perfectionists but…
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When I started my training as a psychologist, I moved in with two students I did not know. One of them told me about an incident the prior year with…
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