I just want to be lazy this weekend. Is that such a bad thing? In our country, where high achievement and productivity are so highly regarded, lazy is almost a dirty word. According the Washington Post, average work hours for Americans range between 47 and 49. Fifty percent of salaried workers report they work 50 [...]
My blog last month mentioned a book entitled Overcoming Depersonalization Disorder by Fugen Neziroglu, Ph.D. and Katharine Donnelly, MA as a good place to start for getting information about coming to grips with depersonalization. Well, it’s time for this month’s blog and this is the book I want to discuss. The Foreword for this book [...]
The book Feeling Unreal, by Daphne Simeon, MD and Jeffrey Abugel, is aptly named, because the word “unreal” is the key word for people suffering from depersonalization. Although depersonalization has been described in the medical literature for move than a hundred years, this book is the most definitive work on the subject and is written [...]
How many times have you felt very stressed and turned to friends for empathy and all you received was a "Don't worry about it!". It is very easy to say "Don't worry about it!" but unfortunately, it is not as easy to live by as Anxiety can feel unmanageable if left unattended. The main problem [...]
Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of research at the Center for Mindfulness and associate professor in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, an adjunct professor at Yale University, a longtime meditator and has written a book called The Craving Mind. His research has shown him what leads to people [...]
Everyone wants to fit in, right? Being different is considered a negative trait in our society. This is especially the case with adolescents. As adolescents try to claim their own independence away from their families they are looking for a place to reattach their identity in order to have a sense of belonging. Adolescents look [...]
Do you often feel overwhelmed by your partner's emotions? Do find you rarely focus on your own needs? Are you unsure where you end & your partner begins? If you answered yes to these questions, chances are that you are struggling with codependency. Codependency is defined as over-reliance on a person or in layman's terms [...]
The book Depersonalization A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome by Mauricio Sierra is a scholarly review of this syndrome with an extensive listing of relevant research studies. Depersonalization can occur as a fleeting experience in adolescents as well as people facing life-threatening situations where its occurrence can be considered to be normal. People can [...]
Even though you, me and most other people will never give a TED talk, the book TED Talks - The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, has been a New York Times bestseller. This is because the book offers advice usable by any public speaker to become a [...]
The book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, The Process and Practice of Mindful Change, Second Edition, by Stephen Hayes, Kirk Strosahl and Kelly Wilson, is a good introduction to a type of therapy developed in the 1980s, which while the authors identified it as a form of behavior therapy, is different from other types of behavior [...]
