Several decades ago, I thought that anyone enjoying a successful, productive, fulfilling life did not experience struggle. I was experiencing struggle, was unable to cope with it, and as a [...]
Question The Placebo Effect (“Placebo” from the Latin: I Shall Please) has been around for centuries. It acquired its name in the 18th century. For the next couple of hundreds of [...]
When I was reminiscing with a friend recently, she began to share her experience with perfectionism and the damage she felt it did to her health, self-esteem, and productivity. “Perfectionism [...]
Severity and Breadth of Issue It is normal for humans to experience mild anxiety. But when feelings of anxiety prevent one from fully engaging in life, one has an “anxiety [...]
Medical Definition of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome What the layperson refers to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is now known in scientific literature as System Exertion Intolerance Disease (SEID).1 Studies by the [...]
Pathological Anxiety The anxiety that garners the attention of psychologists and psychiatrists has a sad and prolific offspring!1 There is General Anxiety Disorder otherwise known as GAD (General Anxiety Disorder); [...]
Healing Chronic Fatigue Quickly, Easily, and Calmly. There is a solution for Chronic Fatigue and a rather simple one at that. It is to train oneself to see and accept [...]
Is there such a thing as “sacred” anxiety”? Freud doesn’t think so, and scholarly literature while acknowledging that there is a normal everyday kind of anxiety goes on to discuss [...]
Pharmaceutical drugs are evaluated by the Federal Drug Administration’s CDER (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) before they are allowed on the market. “The center ensures that drugs, both brand-name and [...]
