Psychology Around the Net: April 20, 2019
Get the latest on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of trigger warnings, the cognitive perks of coffee you might get...
Psychology Around the Net: April 13, 2019
Ready for the latest in the benefits of animal-assisted therapy, a sneaky but super effective way to compliment your kids,...
6 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Recovery from Depression and Anxiety
Recovering from depression and anxiety call for the same kind of shrewdness and amount of perspiration as does running a 4,000-person...
Why It’s Okay to Cry in Public
I waited three months after I was discharged from the hospital for suicidal depression to make contact with the professional...
Retrain the Brain to Deal with Chronic Pain
An interesting March 2019 article discusses a new way to help teenagers to deal with certain types of chronic pain....
6 Ways to Use Mindfulness to Ease Difficult Emotions
Mindfulness has become quite the buzzword these days, with impressive studies popping up in the news with regularity. For example,...
Why Jealousy Can Be Good
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins. Oliver stone said, “Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power...
Why We Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Change
Most human beings loathe change. In a 2010 study conducted at the University of Arkansas, researchers led five experiments that...
Podcast: What Do We Really Mean by “Moral Character”?
We’ve all heard the term “moral character” at some point in our lives, but what do we really mean...
Don’t Force Gratitude
In his book What Happy People Know, Dan Baker argues that you can’t be in a state of appreciation and...
Does Calling Depression an Illness Worsen Stigma?
I plead guilty to expounding on the biochemical vulnerabilities and abnormalities in neural wiring of depression to make the case...
When Faith Alone Can’t Heal Depression
There is no question that religion and spirituality can help pull us out of darkness and provide the hope and...
