Have you ever noticed that the same type of character keeps showing up in your life and pushing all your buttons? These people may look nothing alike or even share the same gender, but they keep presenting you with more or less the same frustrations and issues. Or perhaps it’s not a certain person but […]
From Imagination to Reality
Grateful for this sweet profile in the Baltimore Jewish Times … http://jewishtimes.com/37617/from-imagination-to-reality/
Your Life as a Character Development Workout
How Antagonists Help Us Strengthen Emotional and Mental Muscles
Does the same type of character keep showing up in your life and pushing your buttons? These people may look nothing alike, but they keep presenting you with more or less the same frustrations and issues. Or perhaps there’s a negative situation you keep finding yourself struggling with: picking up the slack and getting no […]
Tapping into Your Omniscient Narrator
How Writing in the Third Person Helps You Step Out of Your Story
In the movie Stranger than Fiction, Harold Crick is a robotic IRS agent who begins to question his mundane existence when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life and foreshadowing his untimely death. When he discovers that he is not the master of his own destiny, but rather a fictional character dreamed up by an […]
Cyber-spying and Defriending
How Facebook is Finding Its Way Onto the Therapy Couch
As a psychotherapist in private practice, I can’t help but notice that Facebook is wreaking mischief in some of my clients’ personal lives. One client caused a family scandal when he established privacy settings that prevented some, but not all, of his relatives from seeing his status updates. A 14-year-old client gave up Facebook for […]
What to Say When You’re Not OK
Question: This spring, I will be getting divorced. Because everyone is in such good spirits, I feel like I have to pretend that I’m OK, but I’m devastated. When people ask how I am, I never know how much to share. When you’re in crisis, a simple “How are you?” can feel like the prelude […]
How to keep your cool when your anger is out of proportion
Common superstition holds that bad (and good) things come in threes. So when, in one evening, two back-to-back clients sought advice about how to respond to unforeseen personal attacks after I also had been verbally accosted earlier that day, I knew I had to address the issue in my column. One client had been the […]
The Trouble with Texting
Why Texting is No Substitute for Face-to-Face Communication
Lately, I’ve noticed more clients using text messages to discuss or argue about unresolved issues in their relationships. As someone who is all thumbs with my thumbs, I’m always amazed that people have the digital dexterity to carry on a reasonably coherent text dialogue for longer than two minutes. But personal challenges aside, texting is […]
Narcissism and the Ugly Side of Vanity
Question: I have a friend who constantly talks about herself and rarely asks any questions about my life. She is constantly preening, obsessed with her body, brags about her sexual and professional conquests, and posts seductive selfies on social media. Is it just self-confidence, or narcissism? Lately, the media has been examining narcissism from more […]
Know the 5 Signs of a Mental Health Crisis
Once again, mental health was thrust into the spotlight last week when a suicidal German pilot crashed a passenger jet into the French Alps. In the aftermath, horrified colleagues wondered at the pilot’s ability to conceal his emotional turmoil. But his close friends reported that he had been withdrawn over the past several months, raising […]
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