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01/07/2014
What can you do if you think you are disliked by your peers, manager, and employees at work? More >>
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| Tags: Behavior, Friendships, Health, Job, Mental Health, Personal Responsibility, Relationships, Stress, Values
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When we're bombarded with our own negative thoughts, it can make us feel as though we're in a self-made prison of blame and judgments, making it feel impossible to relish the good in our lives. 
My daughter dated a kid in college and he shared a conversation with me he had with his great-grandfather. This kid knew I was a perfectionist and thought I needed to hear it. 
Fortunately, there may be a relatively easy way to eliminate some of the brain shrinkage-specifically in the hippocampus and amygdala. Good parenting. 
Why are some people so quick to recover from a setback while others wallow in despair? Why are some so highly attuned to others that they seem psychic, while others put both feet in it over and over again? Why are some people always up and others always down? 
Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twenty-something years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twenty-somethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized what is actually the most defining decade of adulthood. 
I am now my husband's widow, after almost 32 years of marriage. We were a military family, moving often. When pancreatic cancer killed him suddenly (we had 6 weeks before he died) I found myself alone.