Day 1: Bessel van der Kolk is lovely. He's humble, he's funny, and he is the premiere researcher on the neurobiology and/or efficacy of trauma treatments in the world. And cute and brilliant, of course. Here are nearly random gems from 3 hours of notes: With trauma, there are no stories, onl...

Sometimes when faced with encroaching Depression we are given a choice: to exercise will and overcome or give in and wallow. In my last article on the subject (Part I), I discussed my daughter's own struggles with Depression and how she chose to give in to the sadness. No matter how much I encourage...

According to Daniel Goleman, in Vital Lies, Simple Truths, (1995, Simon & Schuster), when we avoid thinking about or doing that which makes us anxious, our brains reinforce us  with really pleasant chemicals. Thus we have epidemics of procrastination and avoidance.   
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Remember that experiment last month where I was supposed to be analyzing just how Multi-Irons Syndrome affected me? Yeah, me neither. I wasn't able to post my month in review on May 30th because I was racing across I-15 that day. It seemed all of a sudden I was the guy elected to drive two of my dau...

I'm taking a moment out of my hectic evening to reply to an article I read while I was taking a break. My blogging friend, Therese Borchard, a fellow Psych Central Best of the Web Mental Health Blogger, writes Beyond Blue over at Beliefnet. Recently, she wrote about the death of Heath Ledger as I ha...

As I celebrate this blog's third anniversary, I contemplate my approach to disability and wonder if there's a special place in Hell for drive-by anonymous posters who haven't anything nice to say. Three years ago this month I pulled my weblog out of "I posted a picture today and edited a perl script...

If you have Adult AD/HD, or teenage ADHD, or just annoying ADD, you know how disruptive this quaint little mindblock can be. Each week I set a goal for myself to try to tame the AD/HD beast and push it back into a cage, so to speak. I invite you to set a goal for yourself and chart your progress wit...

How long before we are doing therapy with our clients in an MRI scan. Interesting news just out today on neurophysiological measures of empathy in both clients and clinicians. Hat tip: Eureka. As a total aside Eureka is one of the best news feeders I have found for keeping up to date with breaking s...

If I list every blog of interest that comes my way, my blogroll can get out of hand. You see some sites where the blogroll disappears down the right column into the ether and beyond. This makes for some interesting decisions at times about who to put on the roll. Recently the author of All About For...

What are the attitudes that keep us from willing our way out of Depression instead of wallowing in it? In my previous articles on this subject (Part I & Part II), I discussed my daughter's own struggles with Depression as well as my own struggles. Today I will focus on the emotionally charged word "...