She’s Pregnant, I’m Not: When Sisters or Friends Spill the News
“Guess what?” your best couple friends ask when you’ve just sat down at an elegant restaurant. “We have an announcement. Guess who’s not having wine?” You and your partner are jolted. You just found out an hour ago that your third in vitro fertility treatment didn’t pan out, and you didn’t even know your friends were trying.
You and your partner have a quick, furtive look. Your throat is dry, and a tear slides out before you can will it to stop. “Great news,” your husband says.
You can’t think of anything you can say aloud. You know you can’t say what you’re feeling:... Read More
Exposure therapy is one of the most common forms of therapy to address symptoms of 
One of the most difficult parts of raising a child with autism is the fear of losing them. For my son, the combination of intelligence, impulsivity, and an inability to comprehend danger results in my family living in a constant state of hypervigilance and fear. When we go out, there is always the possibility he will try to run away. When we're home, there is the fear that he will get out of the house. Our family has addressed this issue with an ability to think "outside the box" and one step ahead of our 14-year-old son, Ben.
1. Under lock and key
The most obvious way to keep a child safe... 
Probation officers assume a large level of responsibility for the offenders in their care and the community at large. They are responsible for monitoring criminal offenders and assessing what level of risk they pose to the general public. When offenders commit an infraction, such as a technical violation of not meeting the conditions of their probation, it is up to the probation officer to manage that infraction and ultimately decide the consequence. Individuals who struggle with mental health issues such as depression, 
Sleep deprivation can lead to a host of negative mental health problems. People who do not get enough sleep may struggle to effectively regulate their emotions. They may be overly sensitive to stressors and react in impulsive and aggressive ways. Similarly, psychological stress can impair a person’s ability to sleep. People who suffer with anxiety, posttraumatic stress, and depression often have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. All of these relationships have been established through clinical research. But less is known about the relationship between impaired sleep and 
When Susan was growing up, she had a series of nightmares that were so familiar she knew when they were coming. She was scared to go to sleep and tried to stay awake to avoid them, but she couldn’t quite do it.
Instead she would fall asleep, have a bad dream, wake up, and find herself inside another bad dream. True awakening sometimes was as impossible as true sleep. This torture continued as she got older and didn’t go away until she learned that she needed help, which she sought; in psychotherapy, she learned just how scared she really was.
“How will therapy cure my fears?” she... 
Individuals who have experienced or witnessed traumatic events, such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, rape, and murder often find themselves in legal proceedings. The attorneys who work with these victims and perpetrators spend months immersed in the intimate details of the traumatic events. Just as the victims can suffer with depression, anxiety, stress, fear, and posttraumatic stress (PTSD) as a result of the trauma, so can the attorneys who work with them. It has been well documented that first responders such as firefighters and police officers, who are exposed to multiple traumas over the... 
Depression has many origins, but trauma is one of the major categories. People suffer from all kinds of traumatic experiences, but here are a few examples of how trauma could have caused you to become depressed.
1. You got bullied in school and you concluded from the experience that you were a social misfit, weak, shameful. You carried that belief into adulthood, practicing it in your mind every day. You gave up on standing up for yourself or expecting to get what you want. You focus on trying to please other people to prove your worth, and very narcissistic people who need an adoring... 
Individuals who struggle with 
There is already a shortage of psychiatrists in the United States, and now it appears that even fewer medical school seniors are choosing psychiatry as a specialty, according to a news release from the American Psychiatric Association. Statistics that point to this declining interest in psychiatry are found in a report from the National Resident Matching Program, according to the news release.
The American Psychiatric Association is uncertain as to the exact reasoning for the smaller number of students choosing psychiatry, but they might be choosing other specialties that offer more profit,... 
What if the state of our economy is not due solely to some harmful people making some horribly destructive moves with their wallets and ours?
Evocative question, I know.
It is not intended to, nor does it, let off the hook those who did purposefully seduce and scam people into buying houses, investing their money, spending money they didn’t have or couldn’t afford to spend. Nor does it give a free pass to Ponzi schemers and others like them.
However … what if the real cause of the world economy right now is broader and deeper than most people realize? What if the real cause is... 
While vacationing in Rincon, a beautiful beach town in Puerto Rico, I fell into a seven-foot hole. There were no streetlights in the tiny village and I was out in the dark night… The fall, the pain, and being stuck in a remote place traumatized me; I was left in a cast for 7 months with a severely shattered heel. Having no choice in the matter, the time I spent recovering left me feeling trapped in my body. But, eventually, I began to listen to what it was saying.
Previously, I wrote about my challenge with cancer and how the experience of a healer aligning my energy helped me transform what... 
Rumination is a common symptom of depression. Individuals with 
Foster care providers face challenges that most caregivers never experience. Children placed in their care come with a history of negative experiences that can include neglect, sexual abuse, violence, emotional unavailability, mental abuse, verbal abuse, exposure to drug and alcohol use, and other traumatic events. These children often lack the basic skills necessary to develop healthy relationships with caregivers and cannot interact in empathetic and understanding ways with peers and others. Because these children had impaired 
