Category: Women’s Issues
The Good Therapy Blog
August 2nd, 2011 |
For people who are dating or dealing with the starting and ending of intimate relationships, a certain question tends to arise... can ex-partners maintain healthy roles in each others’ lives? And if so, when, where, how, and (most obviously) why? Sometimes an ex’s role is clear; for example, a couple who has children together will most likely continue as co-parents in the event of a separation. Other post-breakup scenarios have less obvious answers. Exes can, often... Read More
August 1st, 2011 |
Many women experience post-traumatic stress during and after pregnancy. But a new study discovered that in low-income Latina women, the presence of psychological problems can increase the risk for PTSD during pregnancy and postpartum. “PTSD symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum periods are associated with adverse perinatal risk behaviors, psychiatric comorbidity, and other adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes,” said the researchers from the University... Read More
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June 29th, 2011 |
A psychology professor at California State Long Beach has compiled an impressive pile of data – over 500 studies! – that suggests that women are at least as if not more physically aggressive than men in their intimate relationships. In a 2008 ABC News “What Would You Do?” segment, actors played out two scenarios in public: a man verbally abusing his female partner, then shaking her and pulling her hair, followed by a woman doing the same to him. In the first instance,... Read More
June 27th, 2011 |
Mindfulness therapies have been used for years for the treatment of many psychological issues, such as stress, depression and post-traumatic stress symptoms. But a new study reveals that this versatile form of therapy may also help alleviate symptoms of menopause in women. Mindfulness approaches are... Read More
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June 23rd, 2011 |
The Pleasure Principle is simply this: Our bodies are wired to move towards pleasure and avoid pain. We naturally gravitate towards things that taste, smell and feel yummy and delicious. We naturally avoid the opposite. To try to fight the pleasure principle, as so many diets encourage us to do, is to fight one of our most basic instincts. Is it any wonder then that so many diets fail?
What if following and listening to our pleasure was really the secret to it all?... Read More
June 22nd, 2011 |
She hates her thighs, the sight of them drive her mad. The tissue is soft, the weakness mocks her. Yet she is somehow pulled into the ritual of gazing and when not in front of a reflection, imagining the horror of her flesh. She is repulsed by its frailty, yet it eludes her, defies her, mocks her then, paradoxically, defines her. It continues despite her efforts to be rid of it. At first she is awash with hopelessness at this self-reflected failure. Reactively, almost immediately,... Read More
June 20th, 2011 |
Nearly one out of every ten pregnant women will experience postpartum depression, or have depressive symptoms during their pregnancy. But there is very little research to explain why. However, a new study hopes to identify some of the causes of postpartum depression and isolate warning signs in order to help these women receive earlier treatment and interventions. Samantha Meltzer-Brody,... Read More
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June 20th, 2011 |
Groundbreaking research links postpartum depression to increased depression in children. Dr. Lynne Murray, and her colleagues in Britain, studied 100 first-time mothers in order to determine if their offspring would develop depression as a result of their mother’s postpartum depression. In the first study of its kind, the researchers evaluated mothers with and without postpartum depression, all between the ages of 18 to 42. They assessed... Read More
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June 15th, 2011 |
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is known to cause problems with impulse control, attention, social interactions and academic performance. But a new study suggests that girls with ADHD may be especially vulnerable to alcohol and substance use disorders in their teen years. The researchers, from the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, examined over 1500 Finnish teens. Each of the teenagers had been evaluated for ADHD... Read More
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June 9th, 2011 |
Leptin is a hormone that tells the brain when a person is full and has eaten enough. It is present in everyone and is derived from fat cells in our bodies. However, a new study suggests that a decrease in leptin may be linked to depression. "Animal data suggest that leptin may reduce anxiety and improve depression. Our study in women suggests that leptin may indeed have antidepressant qualities," said the study's lead author, Elizabeth Lawson,... Read More
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June 3rd, 2011 |
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and talking about “lesbians” lately. How “typical lesbians” do this and do that. I even got some feedback from a clerk in a furniture store the other day about the way lesbians commonly make their home decor decisions. And there was that comment in another store alluding to the proliferation of cat hair present in all lesbians’ homes. The infinite stereotypes of lesbians have been assailing my senses from every conceivable... Read More
May 30th, 2011 |
May is Mental Health Month, and while mental health concerns impact everyone, women face distinct challenges. Women possess unique biochemical and hormonal influences that predispose them to certain mental illnesses, and they respond differently to environmental stresses. Not surprisingly, women benefit from a gender-sensitive approach to prevention and treatment.
In comparison to men, women are two to three times as likely to experience anxiety, twice as likely to become depressed, and they develop post-traumatic stress disorder twice as often. Ninety percent of eating disorders, such as anorexia... Read More
May 23rd, 2011 |
Yes, May is Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S.! That sure sounds like a mouthful, doesn't it? And what is “perinatal” anyhow? Well, I will happily explain...
“Perinatal” pertains to the period of time from conception, through pregnancy and up to a year postpartum (after having a baby) and it is a very important time in a woman's life where she is very vulnerable to the number one complication of having a baby: perinatal depression.
That's why so many important non-profits and task forces are working hard to get the word out about perinatal mental health awareness.... Read More
May 11th, 2011 |
Last night I dreamt that a woman with long octopus arms was breaking into my house by slipping through the cracks in the door, which I kept shutting, and she kept opening. When I woke up I heard the phone ringing- it was my daughter, who had been out late celebrating her birthday with her boyfriend. She forgot her keys and was locked out, and I was too deep asleep to hear her ring the door bell. The bell sounds had gotten tangled in my dream life, but the phone sounds broke in.
Once awake, I got up to open the door, kissed her and wished her happy birthday. She apologized, and I gestured my... Read More
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