It’s that time a year again for high school reunions. This every so often social event may be a banal ritual for some but terrifying for others. High school reunions are often avoided by those who have experienced and retained painful memories of humiliation during their adolescent years. Let’s get real here; there are …
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Recently in the American news scene, there has been the unravelling of two intriguing sociopath con artists and scammers. One, Anna Sorokin, a Russian born wannabee wealthy socialite heiress and the other, Keith Raniere a self-proclaimed self-help guru in a physically and psychologically abusive cult called Nxivm. A few years back, Bernie Madoff, the wall …
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Major Depression Disorder is extremely debilitating and can even be deadly. For most the onset is insidious and then grows into full bloom symptoms that plunge you into the deepest of valleys with no way out. You can literally start to feel like the walking dead, where you lose interest in living. This …
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My title sounds really very non-productive, doesn’t! But it isn’t my friends for several reasons. Hear me out on this if you can. All you have to do is just read! Doing nothing might be the best thing you can do for yourself in a long time. Actually doing nothing allows for a pathway to …
I realise that bitter oranges, cannoli and tears have no particular association with each other, nor with anyone else but myself. But blogging is writing down in many ways what’s on my mind, so voila, here it is. I have made no secret that February and March are difficult months for me. Grief slumps or sometimes valleys …
I can just see Gustave Le Bon peering out his apartment window at the angry violent crowds below. It was 1871 and the terrifying loud crowds of the Paris Commune were storming the streets of Paris like stark raving savages, ravaging hell-bent destruction. If alive today, he would definitely experience a Deja Vue witnessing the …
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Happy Quantum Leaps! 2019 is with us. I prefer to take a quantum look at the “new year”, rather than in a linear way. Life on planet earth continues without showing any difference in being “new.” Or does it? Without being a killjoy, the thrill of numbers changing on a calendar just isn’t there …
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When it rains, it pours, it seems. Mishaps, mischance and misfortune like Rabelais said, never come alone! They come totally unexpected, suddenly disrupting our everyday lives and throwing us into time spent fixing them we ordinarily would avoid like the plague. October is a transition month, so not surprisingly there are serious earthly rumbles of hurricanes, floods …
As a neophyte therapist, I was really surprised to find that well more than half of my patients, majority female, had suffered from some sort of sexual abuse. Due to hand surgery last Thursday, I am republishing this updated article, as I can not type much with any ease. Sexual assault is the unwanted and …
I don’t think anybody sets out to be an expert in grief, not even therapists unless they have suffered a personal loss and find themselves in the upheavals of grieving. Last week, I found myself thrown out of my usual coping wagon, which is never a guarantee to stay on the rails in the first …
Growing up? Do we ever achieve it in our lifetime? We often feel pressed to ask young children what they want to be when they grow up. I find children much more gifted in being able to answer than most adults. For children, the question rarely poses much contemplation. Most of them will only give it …
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One of the most debilitating mental illnesses is agoraphobia. Agora from Greek means “marketplace”, which is somewhat misleading as it more a phobia of being in any place, where people are congregated and other places as well! This is not the same as social phobia, which is entirely different. All agoraphobics have extremely high levels …