| A Mental Health Reader |
| • Chronic Stress Can... |
| Last year a very dear friend of mine lost her brother to a sudden and completely unanticipated massive heart attack. In her denial, she expressed shock at this death, stating that her brother was healthy and had no stress in his life. Sadly, she failed to take into account the seriously neurologically impaired condition of his son who, now an adult, functioned no higher than a sex month old.
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| • Asylum Squad: Comic Strip 11 |
| The Dalai Lama with the moth-like wings acts as a sort of Jiminy Cricket figure for Henry. He is based loosely on a cartoon version of the Dalai Lama that I would also speak to on occasion. Most of my hallucinations were cartoons, probably because of my fondness for comics and animation. |
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| • New Research: Mindfulness and Adolescent Boys |
| Another notch in the belt for mindfulness as an approach for stress reduction and well-being came out recently touting the benefit for adolescent boys. Although the 4 week results was based on a short term study, the results were enough for it to be expanded to an 8 week program and picked up in public and private sector schools.
The adoption of mindfulness as an approach for healthy living continues to amaze...
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| • Attachment to Outcomes |
| If you don't get what you want you are disappointed, but if you don't get what you need you will die. Food, water, and oxygen are examples of needs, while respect, love, and being right are examples of wants. |
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| • Suffering Is Easy. The Challenge Is Growth! |
| If you've endured an emotional or mental health disorder, you know suffering. But suffering is the easy part. Anyone can suffer. The real challenge is gathering the inspiration, motivation, and strength to move forward in suffering's wake - and discover life's meaning and purpose. |
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| • Self Compassion |
| This past summer (2010) while driving cross country from Florida to Colorado, we stopped at a hotel for the night and, next morning, had breakfast before loading back into the car. Breakfast is self help and I selected what I wanted from the buffet and walked back to our table. Along the way I dropped two of the plastic plates I was carrying and spilled bread and cereal over the floor. I was immediately aware of feeling stupid, embarrassed and self critical for my clumsiness. My wife stopped me |
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| • Driven by Data |
| Years ago, it was much more common to "fly by the seat of our pants", making business decisions that "feel" right. A few billionaires can do that effectively. The rest of us need to base our decisions on something tangible. Other organizations' successes can teach us, as can data. |
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| • Cyberbullying |
| Most of us are familiar with the problems that bullies create during childhood and adolescence. We even have a mental picture of what a bully looks like. The bully we imagine is big, rough, mean and aggressive. However, that is not always true and, in fact, on the Internet today, there is a new type of bully. This modern bully is intelligent, female, pretty and probably in honors classes in school.
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| • Chapter 1: My Early Happy Years (1940-1951): Part I |
| In the years 1942, 1943 and 1945 I had three eye surgeries for strabismus, crossed-eyes. As I look at some of my old pictures, taken during that period of time, my eyes were so far into my nose that it was difficult for anyone to understand how I could have seen. |
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| • Perceptions of Life Today |
| Charles Dickens great novel about the French Revolution is called "A Tale of Two Cities." The story takes place in London and Paris of the late 18th century. The famous opening quote to the book is, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
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