Burnout doesn’t happen overnight, but it has this uncanny ability to feel like it does. It sneaks up on you! According to Nick Petrie and his team, burnout is a progressive condition…
Managing Health-Related Worries |
Here’s a rather worrisome statistic: The vast majority of midlife women are anxious about aging and about declining health in particular. According to sociologists Anne E. Barrett and Erica L. Toothman, who…
How Writers Are a Perfect Target for Imposter Syndrome
Source: Fumiste Studios, used with permission This is the first of two posts on imposter syndrome and writers. Last week, I attended a fundraising gala for a venerable American institution in Paris….
What Money Problems Are Really About
Source: geralt / Pixabay One of the tenets of couple therapy is that sex, parenting, and money are the power issues— power because it is often not about how you work together…
The Difference Between Planning and Worrying
Source: Josh Bartok/ Used with permission. I have been studying, writing about, and treating worry since 1989—and I have personally engaged in habits of worry longer than that! Several months ago I…
The Lost Art of Eye Contact in the Digital Age
Every day, as I walk down the halls of George Mason’s College of Public Health, I see the heads of students, faculty, and staff buried deep into their digital devices. Phones have…
Why Being Comfortable with Silence Is a Superpower
Silence is the absence of intentional sound or purposeful quiet—and for many people it’s unsettling. Research (Koudenburg et al., 2011) in the Netherlands found that it takes only four seconds of silence…
Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Tale of Two Studies
Source: Tero Vesalainen / Shutterstock. Used with permission “Today, the existence of symptoms emerging after antidepressant discontinuation or dose-reduction is no longer questioned,” write Jonathan Henssler and colleagues at Cologne, Berlin, Freiburg,…
Havana Syndrome: Exploitation of Medicine for Political Gain
“Havana syndrome” has made the headlines since 2016, when Western diplomats in Cuba reported a constellation of neurological symptoms such as brain fog, tinnitus, vertigo, and visual symptoms in the setting of…
Do You Have a “Shame Demon” on Your Shoulder?
Source: Photo by M. on Unsplash If you’ve ever lost a battle with shame, the outcome is the same: shame sucks the joy out of life. It can be triggered anywhere, at…