“Sexual Addiction” among women with substance abuse is often a case of hypersexuality resulting from early childhood sexual abuse, devaluation of one’s own sexuality from sexual abuse and adolescent promiscuity, undiagnosed early onset bipolar...
I was talking to a counselor recently and we discovered we both have the same little plaque prominently displayed in our respective offices: “It is what it is.” That is a phrase that I have been known to use from time to time with individuals who have had...
There are more and more articles showing up about disorders that are manifested in obsessive and/or inappropriate “selfies”. Notice some of the comments at the end of this article. This one in particular resonates with my experience: “The Article implies...
I have been writing, in small doses with short descriptive stories, about an experience that happened after a tumble into depression that went undiagnosed for over a year when I was in my early 40’s. After I shared with my doctor that “something just...
Anne Lamott’s personal page bio includes this: “Twenty-three years ago a very hung-over Anne Lamott stumbled into a small church and started what was to be a long journey towards sobriety and sanity. There were no instant miracles on that road, but many...
The word “affirmation” has been presented in some contexts in a way that makes it appear downright negative, implying unhealthy neediness and codependency and a lack of personal self-worth……The need for affirmation is a legitimate human...
