ghosting Source: OpenClipart-Vectors / pixabay As an OCD specialist, I know that avoidance can be a huge compulsion for some. The idea of not having to face a person or situation that triggers anxiety is very alluring. I also know that there are consequences for people who use avoidance. When a person runs away from…
A new study that colleagues from the University of Limerick and University of Stirling, UK, and I recently published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity has found that lower social cohesion was associated with antibody response to the COVID-19 vaccine. Lower social cohesion also made people feel lonelier, and this was an additional factor in reducing…
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Source: Dan Meyers/Unsplash Given the very few public models of successful people living with a psychotic disorder, there is a cultural assumption that once a person develops psychosis, this person has no hope of recovering. Media portrayals of people with schizophrenia don’t help normalize a satisfying picture of a thriving person with schizophrenia, despite many…
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You can provide environments and experiences that sustain and boost your children’s memories of what they learned in school this year—things might otherwise be deleted from their memories due to disuse during the summer break. Source: usborne copyright free What Is a Summer Slide? Memory is strengthened by the brain’s “neuroplasticity,” or the “use it…
The character Homer Simpson once posed the question: “Could God make a burrito that was so hot that even God couldn’t eat it? Could he make a stone so heavy that even he couldn’t lift it?” There is in human life a weird problem from which many of the main mental health problems arise. This…
This week Congressman Troy Nehls will introduce the “Stop Child Abuse Act,” seeking to rescind the Executive order signed by President Biden on June 15, which prohibits individual state governments from banning the use of gender transition therapies in minor children and removes the states’ right to govern independently. Biden signed the Executive Order on…
When most people think about personality disorders, they use category names such as “borderline,” “narcissist,” or “psychopath.” These category names are part of the conventional diagnostic naming system used in the United States and Canada, known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5 (representing the fifth edition). However, even as the…
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A woman, ignored by the police, investigates a murder on her own. To save an old couple from loan sharks, a man must fight competing criminal gangs. Friends fishing at a remote lake in the North Woods are stalked by a malevolent Watcher. Check any list of best-selling novels; you will find well-represented thrillers there….
We want it. We need it, and we’re sick and tired of not getting enough of it. Why are we not allowing ourselves to get the rest we crave? Sleep seems to be the first thing we sacrifice when we’re faced with looming deadlines, anxiety, unexpected demands, or opportunities to cut loose and socialize. In…
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Two weeks before the Fourth of July, grocery chains Kroger and Harris Teeter (owned by Kroger) responded to a complaint by a Democrat politician in North Carolina about koozies decorated with pro-America themes featuring firearms, saying the items would be pulled from shelves. One koozie has an image of a Bald Eagle holding a rifle…
