MRIs and emotional word tests indicate depressed worriers may have an advantage. The study found the brain scans of a worried and depressed person doing the emotional word task were very different from those of a vigilant or panicky depressed person. Despite depression, the worriers did better on the emotional word task because they were […]
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Just came across this collection of studies about stress–what helps, what doesn’t. The last few posts: Acupuncture Treats Anxiety at the Dentist Conquering Stress With Foods And a new study about neurogenesis in lab-stressed mice.
My report from the first day of the L.A. Mind-Body Conference is up at the Huffington Post.
David Brooks surveys the happiness literature in an op-ed, The Sandra Bullock Trade. If the relationship between money and well-being is complicated, the correspondence between personal relationships and happiness is not. The daily activities most associated with happiness are sex, socializing after work and having dinner with others. The daily activity most injurious to happiness
Posted at PsychCentral, Drug, Food Addiction Share Common Source: A new study shows that the same molecular mechanisms that drive an individual into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing an individual into obesity. An individual rat, at least.
Article + resources: Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill: People fighting chronic illnesses are less likely than others to have Internet access, but once online they are more likely to blog or participate in online discussions about health problems […] They are gathering on big patient networking sites like PatientsLikeMe, HealthCentral, Inspire, CureTogether
A series of Q&A’s about sex addiction is underway at the NYT–therapists answering reader mail on the topic. Lively, diagnosis-doubting commenters by the dozen follow.
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Psychiatrist Richard Friedman, MD, writing about on self-defeating behavior in the NYT, confronts a client with a long pattern of not-so-coincidental-seeming disappointments: “Do you ever wonder why so many disappointing things happen to you?” I asked. “Is it just chance, or might you have something to do with it?” His reply was a resentful question:
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The origins of marriage counseling and other dirty laundry are aired in this New Yorker review of Rebecca L. Davis’ new book, More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss. Enjoy.
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Maybe this is for therapists only, but take a look at Wikipedia’s long list of psychotherapies if you’ve got some time to kill and some curiosity about the different approaches to therapy that are out there. The list goes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (which I’ m a fan of) to Wilderness Therapy (haven’t tried).