Chronic Illness / Disability

Chronic pain is an issue facing many of our potential clients. It is important to understand the effect of ongoing, intractable pain on emotional health and well-being, and to be willing ... Read More

It may be the idealized image of television shows, or perfect, ever-present pictures in advertising in newspapers and magazines, or just the plan hopefulness with which we all start our ... Read More

Professor Mike Owen is calling for a War on Mental Illness. Owen serves as Director of the new Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute within Cardiff University, a leading research ... Read More

Chronic medical conditions come with a wide range of adjustments, ranging  from the physical and practical to the social and emotional. Certainly those that are life-threatening bring ... Read More

Starting the day with fibromyalgia pain made Vera angry Fibromyalgia made it hard for 46 year old Vera to get her legs out of bed in the morning. As she moved toward the bathroom and began ... Read More

Depression is one of the most common reasons for people to find a therapist or counselor to talk through their emotional and psychological struggles. A new study of extensive polling data ... Read More

Media accounts of individuals with disabilities who have achieved something will often refer to such people as having overcome their disabilities in order to become successful. Sometimes ... Read More

The onset of disabling illness or physical or sensory impairment is often accompanied by complicated grief processes, including depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. These grief ... Read More

While Braille has enabled blind people to carry out many everyday functions with relative ease, those with severely impaired vision have traditionally been unable to glean emotional information ... Read More

When I was 16 and an academic superstar, I set up appointments to visit Ivy League and other colleges that I might attend the following year. Most of these visits involved campus tours ... Read More

While some disabilities are immediately evident, other disabilities are invisible. Beginning in childhood, people with disabilities who have the option of passing as nondisabled often get ... Read More