Category: Articles
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Post-Election Anxiety
Read more: Post-Election AnxietyLos Feliz is a deep blue neighborhood in a deep blue state. Right now, a lot of people are experiencing an unpleasant combination of lingering shock and continued anxiety. From How to Cope with Post-Election Stress (The Atlantic), come some suggestions. First, there’s basic self-care. Then: At an individual level, people can check in on their…
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Election Anxiety
Read more: Election AnxietyExperiencing a spike in anxiety connected with the election? You’re not alone. The American Psychological Association says that 52 percent of American adults are coping with high levels of stress brought on by the election, according to national Harris Poll survey data released last week. Therapists around the country said in interviews that patients are…
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More Mindfulness
Read more: More MindfulnessMore help via mindfulness, this time for elementary school kids in Watts: Mindfulness has been found beneficial for stress reduction, anxiety and depression, dietary challenges, addiction recovery, and many other conditions. Now it has found its way into a classroom where children as young as three are using its techniques to manage emotions and stay calm. Using…
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Politics in Therapy
Read more: Politics in TherapyIn case you missed it: Why Therapists Should Talk Politics (NYT): There comes a time when people can’t take it anymore, when too much is being demanded of them. How much blame can people tolerate directing at themselves? When do they turn it outward? My sense is that psychotherapists are playing a significant role in…
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Overconnecting
Read more: Overconnecting“Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” (NYT again) surveys the trouble-with-cell-phones research (distraction up, empathy down). This jumped out: Studies of conversation both in the laboratory and in natural settings show that when two people are talking, the mere presence of a phone on a table between them or in the periphery of their vision changes both…