Category Archives: Therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder: The Sufferer’s Experience
When a man or woman with borderline personality patterns erupts in strong emotions, loved ones can feel under fire. At the same time, the person with BPD also suffers.
Borderline Personality: Does a BPD Diagnosis Imply Raging?
One aspect of the cluster of traits that lead to a borderline personality diagnosis lies at the core of this disorder. Hint: it's NOT anger.
Can a 4-Step Self-Help Therapy Technique End Upset Feelings?
Therapists use this technique to help their clients gain insight and feel better. Can it also relieve upset feelings if you use it as a self-help technique?
Antidepressants: A Research Update and a Case Example
What experiences do people have if they take antidepressants?
Anxiety Treatment: Should You Be Wary of Anxiety Medication?
Feeling anxious? There's lots of ways to ease the jitters, but be wary of some of them!
Anxious? 4 Examples of Anxiety Treatments that Calm Nerves
What therapy options are there if you are struggling with anxiety? Is the goal to get rid of the anxious feelings, or to address the problems triggering your worries?
Are Antidepressant Medications the Next Drug Abuse Epidemic?
Congress has passed legislation to slow the epidemic of pain-killer addiction. What about the epidemic of drug use for treating the emotional pain of depression?
Are You a Narcissist? 6 Sure Signs of Narcissism
Low on compassion? Take this quick six-factor quiz to gauge your narcissistic tendencies.
A Quick and Quirky Addition to Depression Treatment Options
Extensive medical research has established that when people feel a sense of well-being there is more energy in their left than their right prefrontal lobe. Their brain, by contrast, has more energy in the right prefrontal lobe when depression is present.
A Quick Fix for Narcissism—and Depression Too
Too much narcissism in your life? Too much depression? Here's an action plan to fix both of these two very different problems, and to end narcissistic-depressive interactions.