How Will You Know if You’re Going Emotionally Bankrupt?
If your mental well-being is a finite resource, like money, then what can good money management teach us about how to keep our balance when life threatens to disturb our peace?
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life Articles in February, 2011
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in February, 2011.
Don’t They See? Why the Disturbed Characters in Your Life Don’t Seem to “Get It”
You might want them to see the self-defeating and other-harming consequences of their behavior, but the fact is many disturbed characters already see, they just disagree.
Loss of Identity — My Documents And Me
Losing my bag with all my documents in it was a shameful, disempowering experience. When I was writing about loss of identity in a spiritual sense, this was not what I meant!
Don’t Explain Away Your Power to Change
Therapy is a tool, and like all tools, it can be used for good or ill. Too often, plumbing the depths of a problem leads not to a solution, but to a thicket of obstacles.
A Space for Everything, and Everything in Its Space
In the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes, there’s a beautiful passage which begins “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heavens”. In the past few weeks, I’ve learned a personal lesson in the importance of making time and space for all the necessary purposes of life, not just the work-based ones.
Getting By With a Little Help From Your Friends: Drugs as Instruments
It’s wrong to lump drug use and drug abuse together, say the authors of a forthcoming paper. On the contrary, most people who take psychoactive drugs will never be addicts, and for them, drug taking may be an adaptive and rational decision.
Are Bugs Messing With Your Mind?
Two biologists propose that the presence or absence of parasites in our environment exerts a strong top-down influence on the extent to which we have historically developed family ties and even religion. Surely it’s not the whole picture — I sure hope we’re more complicated than that — but could it be part of the picture?