How we make our children depressed.
January 13, 2015 Comments Off on How we make our children depressed.

Huffington Post

More than half of the 47 preschoolers diagnosed with depression displayed pathological guilt, compared with 20 percent of the non-depressed preschoolers. The researchers found that the children with high levels of guilt, even if they weren’t depressed, had smaller anterior insula volume — which has been found to predict later occurrences of depression. Children with smaller insula volume in the right hemisphere, related to either depression or guilt, were more likely to have recurring episodes of clinical depression when they got older.
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Perhaps you need a really good fight?
January 8, 2015 Comments Off on Perhaps you need a really good fight?

PsychCentral

For some people, this is a truly radical idea: There is no need to fight with your partner. Ever. Accusations, recriminations, character assassination, threats, name-calling, and cursing, whether delivered at top volume or with a quiet sarcastic sneer, damage a relationship, often irrevocably. Nobody needs to be a monster or to be treated monstrously. Nobody who yells will ever be heard. In the heat of a moment, it is always a choice whether to go for a run or run your partner down.
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No, you don’t need an open minded marriage counselor…
January 7, 2015 Comments Off on No, you don’t need an open minded marriage counselor…

PsychCentral

Couples therapy can help couples improve their relationship in many ways. For instance, it helps couples resolve conflict, learn how to communicate effectively, better understand each other, enhance their emotional connection and strengthen their bond.

Naturally, couples may face obstacles in therapy that stall their progress. They may have inaccurate assumptions about how therapy works, which can keep them stuck.
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Let’s not celebrate Divorce Day…
January 6, 2015 Comments Off on Let’s not celebrate Divorce Day…

Independent

Legal firms are bracing themselves for ‘Divorce Monday’ when they typically see a surge in queries from spouses planning to break up after limping through the Christmas holidays.

Many couples wait until after Christmas and the New Year before initiating a separation, leading to a glut of inquiries on the first working Monday of January, dubbed ‘Divorce Day’.
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Here’s how to make difficult conversations easy
January 5, 2015 Comments Off on Here’s how to make difficult conversations easy

Bakadesuyo –

Someone is screaming in your face at the top of their lungs. Or ranting angrily and you can’t get a word in edgewise. Or maybe they’re sobbing so hard you can barely understand what they’re saying.

We’ve all been there. These situations don’t happen a lot (thank god) but we all feel helpless when they do. And because they’re rare we don’t ever seem to get better at handling them.

Problem is, these moments are often critical because they’re usually with people we care about.
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Can we start our new year with some brain pushups?
January 2, 2015 Comments Off on Can we start our new year with some brain pushups?

PuckerMob –

Dr. Shamay-Tsoory further explained that “understanding other people’s state of mind and emotions is related to our ability to understand sarcasm.”

Sarcasm seems to exercise the brain more than sincere statements do. Scientists who have monitored the electrical activity of the brains of test subjects exposed to sarcastic statements have found that brains have to work harder to understand sarcasm.
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Maybe you should resolve to fix it instead?
January 1, 2015 Comments Off on Maybe you should resolve to fix it instead?

Science Blog –

“The vast majority of people get married during their lifetimes, and what is known is that, on average, satisfaction declines,” Lavner said. “So the question is, how do couples’ problems actually change? So many people enter marriage happily, but then go on to struggle. What explains that disconnect?”

The study used data from 169 newlywed couples assessed eight times over the first four years of marriage to examine how couples’ marital problems changed. Ratings of 19 specific problems indicated that couples’ difficulties in areas such as in-laws, household management, amount of time spent together and unrealistic expectations do not change.
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Can, “Truly, madly, deeply,” ever last?
December 23, 2014 Comments Off on Can, “Truly, madly, deeply,” ever last?

Psychology Today

Being Madly in Love Can Last! The results of the study indicate that the feeling of intense passion can last in long-term relationships. “We found many very clear similarities between those who were in love long-term and those who had just fallen madly in love,” says Dr. Aron. “In this latest study, the VTA showed a greater response to images of a long-term partner when compared with images of a close friend or any of the other facial images.”

This means that the VTA is particularly active for romantic love.
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What keeps you doing such crazy things?
December 19, 2014 Comments Off on What keeps you doing such crazy things?

QZ

Much of what Siegel wants us to consider can be condensed into a simple phrase: “what fires together, wires together.” The idea is that when a set of neurons are stimulated, they link up with all those other neurons that are simultaneously firing. Whether the groups of neurons that are linking make sense to us as observers on the outside is beside the point. Odd pairings can occur, strange juxtapositions of feelings and sensations that, outside of the experience of a particular individual, seem almost impossible to the rest of us. I’m reminded of a narrative in the old DSM-IV casebook that describes an individual who had come to associate sexual arousal with being covered in insects.
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Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?
December 3, 2014 Comments Off on Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?

Forbes –

According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly washed away by the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation on your mood, ability to focus, and access to higher-level brain functions for days to come. The negative effects of sleep deprivation are so great that people who are drunk outperform those lacking sleep.
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Session Notes

How we make our children depressed.

Perhaps you need a really good fight?

No, you don’t need an open minded marriage counselor…

Let’s not celebrate Divorce Day…

Here’s how to make difficult conversations easy

Can we start our new year with some brain pushups?

Maybe you should resolve to fix it instead?

Can, “Truly, madly, deeply,” ever last?

What keeps you doing such crazy things?

Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?

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