Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight
Damon Winter/The New York Times “So many people have begged me to come forward, and I just thought — well, I have to do this. I owe it to them. I cannot die a coward,” said Marsha M. Linehan, a psychologist at the University of Washington. HARTFORD — Are you one of us? The patient…Read more
Multi-Generational Trauma and Tobique First Nation
If you ever thought that getting access to a psychiatrist is difficult in Toronto, you should try spending a couple days on the Tobique First Nation reserve in New Brunswick. The addiction counselors and children, family and youth workers I met there were full of heart and spirit and were fearless when it came to…Read more
The 12 Worst Relationship Mindsets: Which Are YOU Guilty Of?
By Robert Leahy, Ph.D., Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City In cognitive therapy we focus on the way that you think about things. When we are distressed, we have automatic thoughts — that is, thoughts that come to us spontaneously, seem true and generally go unexamined. Sometimes your thoughts are accurate;…Read more
Is addiction a disease?
Margaret Wente Globe and Mail, Tuesday May 17, 2011 I’ve known a lot of addicts in my life – some of them all too well. Some were hooked on booze, some on cigarettes, a few on pot and one or two on harder stuff. Sometimes, their destructive behaviour wrecked marriages and careers, and occasionally it…Read more
Romance on the Rocks
Spot and address the warning signs of a relationship that’s in trouble With the summer months approaching, it might not seem like the time to bring up unromantic statistics. But the fact remains that at least half of all couples will ultimately go their separate ways. What drives couples to break up may surprise you….Read more
