Category: Mental Health

  • Depression is Real

    Depression is Real

    My daughter, who was attending college at the time, called me after a particularly trying day to inform me that according to her psychology professor, depression isn’t real. Apparently it can be controlled by changing our perspective of things. I immediately called him a loser under my breath before my daughter reminded me that everyone…

  • Withdrawal

    Withdrawal

    Anger, anxiety, confusion, insomnia, migraines, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, headaches, mood swings, seizures. Sounds like someone needs to get on some medicine with all those symptoms. Amazingly enough, however, those are the symptoms I’ve experienced while trying to do the exact opposite. Coming off medicines and detoxing from it all is worse than the original symptoms…

  • It’s Not Just A Balloon – Building Trust With Your Children

    It’s Not Just A Balloon – Building Trust With Your Children

    Full disclosure: I’m not a parent, but I get asked for advice about parenting and children all the time. I admit that it’s a little weird, but I guess being a nanny who helps to raise other people’s children makes people trust me with theirs. Trust is a short word with an important definition, not…

  • The Science of Snuggling

    The Science of Snuggling

    I don’t remember the exact day my husband came home and changed our daily routine. We’d been married for over 15 years and had developed a good working relationship. That particular day he had been researching depression, my lifelong frenemy, and had come upon an article that had shouted out the effects that cuddling can…