…a loving gesture: He never demonstrates his love for you. I don’t see any signs of it. It will belittle your partner’s loving responses: You call that loving? It’s nothing. You deserve more than that. It will make fun of you when you acknowledge something your partner has given you: You are so pitiful! You’re practically groveling. It will ridicule the exchanges between you: You two lovebirds are so mushy, it nauseates me. I can practically hear…
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…and the long-term impact that bullying has on the mental health of our children. Dr. Dieter Wolke, the lead author of the study and a Professor at the University of Warwick, noted that bullying should not be considered just another part of growing up. As discussed by Dr. Mark Dombeck in an article for MentalHelp.net, bullying has long-term consequences like: Fewer opportunities for employment Problems trusting others Trouble forming relationships…
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…sovereign mind. Ironically, that very independence and uniqueness is what drew you to that person in the first place. Asking them to narrow their worlds can ultimately serve to make you less attracted to your partner. Conversely, when your partner expects you to limit your world, you will likely wind up feeling trapped and resentful. Affairs become more appealing when a couple stops feeling that excitement and passion for each other. They may sta…
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…maturity, separation experiences that make us aware of our aloneness, and signs of aging and ill health dispel the illusion; whereas religious beliefs, an imagined fused identity in personal relationships, vanity, and fantasies of omnipotence help to maintain it. When this internal fantasy process is disrupted, the original suppressed fear reaction is activated and there is considerable hostility directed toward the source. In my book, I suggest…
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…s themselves or get through these issues on their own. So how can you be attuned to your child’s fears and teach them to deal with their stress? Read “How to Help Your Stressed-Out Child” and learn the signs of and solutions to your child’s stress….
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…early as 6 months. This would be of great benefit to the thousands of children who each year are found to have autism. A experimental treatment has been created called Infant Start which is intended to address the social environment the baby grows up in, and to see whether changes at home might alter the biological development of the condition. It is based on a daily therapy, the Early Start Denver Model, that uses games and pretend play to engag…
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…m of emotional neglect. They’re missing what my father psychologist Robert Firestone has called “love food,” a form of attuned emotional nourishment and parental warmth that they need to thrive, particularly in their first year. In its absence, the child may learn that the best way to deal with their frustration at not having their needs met is to act like they don’t have any. As Dr. Daniel Siegel put it, the child learns to disconnect from their…
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…ness. So we better take the chances we have right now. Madeline Sharples has worked most of her life as a technical writer and editor, grant writer, and proposal manager. She fell in love with poetry and creative writing in grade school and decided to fulfill her dreams of being a professional writer later in her life. Madeline is the author of Leaving the Hall Light On, a memoir about how she and her family survived her older son’s suicide, whi…
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…common in today’s vocabulary than ever before. Social Media has especially drawn a spotlight on this now colloquially used concept, which ultimately encourages people to not only accept—but love—themselves for who they are. Moreover, many outspoken celebrities and self-love advocates ranging from Demi Lovato, Chrissy Teigen, and Amy Schumer have enabled pop culture to create a snowball effect, generating popularity to the idea of “self-love” and a…
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…l health community should call on one another to increase our efforts to address the trauma that so many people are enduring. Perhaps what we should marvel at in this moment is not that people have been thrust into action, taking to the streets in protest, but that people imbued with this much trauma have learned to tuck it away for so long, to carry on each day despite its mental and physical toll. Any help we offer or action we take should inclu…
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