Mental Health Topics

Kim Jong Un. Digital image. CNN. 25 Apr 2017. Web. 5 Jun 2017. (cnn.com). North Korea has had missile tests. It has had military parades. The country has created videos featuring the demolition of San Francisco and Washington, DC. It is evident that North Korea would like to reign as…

You’re at a red light and look to your side. You see someone about your age, but he’s driving a car that’s a lot younger—and a nicer brand to boot. What was it? What makes you most jealous? Is it a Tesla, a new Audi SUV, or a Shelby Mustang,…

Remember when you were a kid, and a vacation meant spending hours on the beach making sandcastles and jumping in the waves? How about the days spent at theme parks riding on the roller coaster and the Ferris wheel? Some people were lucky enough to get an entire week inside…

People who want to live the dream of a white, picket fence surrounding a pretty house with a nice yard and a flower garden may be a little stressed out right now. In 2016, mortgage rates were below four percent at the beginning of the year. They stayed at record…

Kim Kardashian was slammed by people around the world recently after posting a tribute to the victims of the terror attack at the Manchester Arena in England on social media. She shared the post a few hours following the incident, where 22 people were killed and 59 others were injured,…

Between three and six percent of the population is at risk for a chronic depression that is called Double Depression. It can interfere with daily tasks and quality of life, as well as the increased risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. With a bleak name like Double Depression, you would…

Imagine you just reached an important life goal. What was it? Hiking the Appalachian Trail …paying off a loan…owning a car that starts on cold mornings? Now that you’ve achieved it, you can kick it and enjoy life. Right? Yes! Wait—no. Well…maybe. Life is confusing like that. You have things…

Sometimes it comes by way of a family member, sometimes a news story, sometimes, perhaps, a call from the police, or on the wind with a violent storm…and sometimes it comes from a doctor. It came to me in June 2016. The PSA was 4.9. The biopsy said it was…

My husband and I will have been married 24 years in July. We started dating (on and off) since we were 17. We have two wonderful teenagers and we own a new business together. Our lives are full of many wonderful things, but at this time they are also filled…

The flowers are in bloom, and the fields have turned from barren and beige to high-definition green. A mother duck can be seen leading her ducklings, who waddle like a wayward army, from biggest to smallest. A sense of well-being takes over the mind and body, and romance is in…

The neighbor next door just traded in his minivan for a cherry-red Corvette Convertible. A coworker, who used to wear a modest amount of jewelry or none at all, is now sporting a three-carat diamond ring. Your best friend made an appointment to get Botox injections, because she wants to…

You’ve watched your child as she slept in her crib peacefully, nursed her back to health when she had the sniffles, and held her tiny hand when you brought her to school for the first day of kindergarten. You watched your son play in every Little League baseball game, cleaned…