A woman gets tangled in christmas lights The holiday season can be a time of relaxation and joy but also one of extreme stress. With presents to buy, food to prepare and family to see, the holidays bring out the best and worst [...]
Sur•vi•vor Noun 1. a person or thing that survives 2. one who outlives others 3. a person who endures, who continues to function or prosper in spite of opposition, hardship, or setbacks This definition suggests fortitude, grit, and determination even in the face of overwhelming [...]
Few people go through life without a bout of “the blues.” Feeling sad or down is a normal and often healthy human emotion. Feeling depressed, as it’s often described, is typically a normal reaction to distressing events in our lives such as loss – be [...]
Like many of life’s passages, how we approach and deal with the loss of a loved one is as individual as each person. Even if we are not experiencing an immediate loss, most of us have lost family and friends over the years. The older [...]
As Mark Twain is supposed to have said, “…everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” But some people not only complain about the weather, they’re negatively affected by it as well. No, we’re not talking about Grandma’s thunderstorm-predicting bunions here; [...]
Science shows that pets can help people suffering from depression; but did you know that pets can get depressed too? Ever since mankind began domesticating animals thousands of years ago, a special bond has existed between us and those animals we welcome into our homes, [...]
It is no surprise to anyone that joblessness is a depressing thing to contemplate for most people. What many people do not immediately realize is the complex equation that connects Joblessness and Depression. The first thing to recognize is that while “being depressed” and even [...]
“What I’ve got they used to call the blues,” Karen Carpenter sang in Rainy Days & Mondays, and we all knew what she meant. We’ve all had them…those blue days, those sad days, those days when we couldn’t put our finger on just what was bothering us, but felt defeated, played [...]
