Finding the right therapist can involve almost as much energy and time as finding the right spouse. Instead of meeting for coffee or appetizers and drinks, you’re spilling your guts inside a bunch of psychotherapist offices, trying to gauge whether all that notebook scribbling is going to translate into help or not. If you don’t...
January 24 is on record as being the most depressing day of the year. It’s not hard to figure out why. The bills come in from all those generous gifts you gave back when the holiday spirit had you feeling rich. The resolutions you made on December 31 are, well, broken. And it’s cold, dark,...
Wishing all of my readers a peaceful holiday and a good start to the new year. I’m going to be offline for awhile. My gracious editors at Everyday Health gave me some time off so I can rest my brain for a bit. Wishing you the very best. Therese Share this:
“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination,” said the 19th century writer Christian Nevell Bovee. As everyone who has ever experienced a panic attack knows, there is nothing imaginary about the way you feel. I have tried to convince my husband on countless occasions, in the...
This post is from my archives. I have a love-hate relationship with December. Many people do. As a person with an extremely fragile psyche, who has a low threshold for stress, I feel like December adds another 50 percent of things to be scratched off of my “to do” list, and therefore tells my sympathetic...