Tag Archives: anxiety

What is Complicated Grief?

Reference | February 10, 2012

Grief is an unavoidable part of the human experience. It is a normal, healthy reaction to the loss of a loved one, and it is also excruciatingly painful. In fact, the loss of a loved one is one of the … Continue reading →

Can Nagging Ruin Your Marriage?

Marriage | February 7, 2012

New research indicates that nagging, when one person repeatedly makes a request and the other repeatedly ignores it, is more toxic to the health of a couple’s marriage than infidelity or financial problems. In fact, it is this type of … Continue reading →

Can Anxiety Be Good for You?

Therapy | January 31, 2012

Rising to the Challenge For most of us, anxiety can hardly be imagined to be a positive thing- we often are overloaded with work, family, financial, social and relationship obligations  to the point that we never feel relaxed. Many of us … Continue reading →

Defense Mechanism of The Week: Sublimination

Defense Mechanisms | January 23, 2012

The “Good” Defense Sublimination is often seen as the “good” defense in psychological and popular thinking. By definition, sublimination represents a creative, healthy, and socially acceptable way of expressing internal conflicts. Originally, Freud stated that sublimination was the expression of … Continue reading →

How Do You Create a Happy Marriage?

Marriage | January 20, 2012

If you want to know how to have a meaningful, fulfilling marriage, you might want to ask those with a long and successful history of being happily married. The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University recent completed what they … Continue reading →