Helping A “Perfect Kid” Not Be So Perfect
Amy: One of the best-kept secrets that even families themselves don’t know, is that kids worry about their parents. And why
Category: Anxiety
Don’t Worry About Feeling Bad
We have become a nation of fixers. We want to fix stuff as soon as its broken, including our moods. We don’t have much tolerance for ambiguity, or lack of resolution. Or emotional pain. What’s the problem with that, you might ask? Because often our attempt to “fix” our moods, or our pain, ends up making the problem worse, or more long-lasting. Here’s another way to do it.
When A Patient Requests Xanax: A Doctor’s Unexpected Response
Many doctors feel under pressure to prescribe medications to patients with even moderate anxiety or depression. But it doesn’t have to be that way: Here’s a case of a physician with courage and imagination who takes an unexpected path to help her patient.
Anxiety: A Guide To Ourselves
Anxiety is a common human emotion, one that we all experience at one point or other. Though most of us feel anxiety as a painful feeling that we want to “go away”, our anxiety in fact may be a helping us learn something important about ourselves.
What Parents Worry About
To be a parent is to know worry. There’s no escaping it, and there’s really no cure for it. As my blogging buddy David Keith says, “If you can’t stand guilt don’t become a parent.”
A Hidden Truth: Kids Worry About Their Parents
Kids instinctively “worry”, that is, feel responsible for their families. Don’t forget that. Children worry about their families. They are trying to help the parents become not only better parents but better people. But their therapeutic methods get diagnosed as mental illness.
The Symbolic Meaning Of A Child’s Symptoms: What’s in the Shadows?
Dave: The birth of the baby represents a quantum jump in intimacy and the complexity of living. There is a
Our Struggling Kids
Check out this excellent article by Frank Bruni of The New York Times. He looks at a rash of teen suicides
A Brief Conversation About Living Well
Amy: Sometimes in the course of my work with family doctors, we find ourselves engrossed in conversation that feels unexpectedly