In Sickness and In…Hey, Look at That Kitty!
Tara Parker-Pope recently talked about the impact of ADHD on marriage and long term partnerships in her Well Blog. It’s an easy read that touches on many common struggles of couples when one partner is dealing with an attention disorder. In it she includes a link to a great site called ADHD and Marriage – […]
A Little Talking Goes a Long Way
If you haven’t checked out Tara Parker-Pope’s “Well Blog” in the New York Times, it’s worth a look. She’s provided a lot of material for my own blog, and this entry is no exception. A recent guest post by a psychiatrist, Dr. Jeff Deitz, provided more anecdotal evidence that talk therapy is a powerful tool in […]
Like Fine Wine…
Happiness gets better with age. This NYT article details results from a recent survey on happiness across the lifespan. The article contains several interesting stats on how our levels of anxiety, worry, sadness, and happiness change over the years. Rather than summarize all of the findings, I’ll highlight one piece – that age 50 seems to […]
Mind Over Meds
I read a good article in the NYT the other day (thanks again, Kyle) dealing with the state of psychiatry in the USA. Over the years, psychiatrists have become known more for clinical interviews, diagnosis, and prescribing medication than for doing actual therapy with their patients. Daniel Carlat, M.D., a psychiatrist and the author of this […]
Parents? Who Needs ‘Em?
You can divorce an abusive spouse. You can call it quits if your lover mistreats you. But what can you do if the source of your misery is your own parent? This is a quote from a New York Times article on toxic parental relationships. In it the author talks about his own and other therapists’ […]
Couples Series #4: The Full Catastrophe
Hello again, everyone! After a long break to take care of a new puppy (a little golden retriever named Bentley, if you’re wondering), I’m back and ready to round out the Couples Series with its final installment: The Full Catastrophe. Sticking to form, we begin with a quote from Elizabeth Weil’s Married (Happily) With Issues: But Dan was […]
