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Los Angeles Therapist
Read more: Los Angeles TherapistLooking for a therapist in Los Angeles? Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or simply feeling overwhelmed by life in the city, finding the right therapist can make all the difference. Centrally Located in Los Feliz I’m an LCSW with an office conveniently located at Hillhurst and Ambrose in Los Feliz, at the…
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How Not to Raise a Bully
Read more: How Not to Raise a BullyFrom Time.com: How Not to Raise a Bully. (In short: teach empathy.) Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put ourselves in another person’s shoes — has…
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Happiness and Stuff
Read more: Happiness and StuffFrom PsyBlog: Six Psychological Reasons Consumer Culture is Unsatisfying re why stuff doesn’t make you happy. Unless… [T]hinking of material purchases in experiential terms helps banish dissatisfaction. Try thinking of jeans in terms of where you wore them or how they feel, the mp3 player in terms of how the music changes your mood or outlook,…
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Diet and Alzheimer’s
Read more: Diet and Alzheimer’sFrom the NYT: Diet May Be Linked to Lower Alzheimer’s Risk in Older People. Starts this way: Older adults appear to be at lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease if they eat a diet rich in fish, poultry, fruit, nuts, dark leafy greens, vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower, and oil-and-vinegar dressing, a new study has found.
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Depression in Seniors
Read more: Depression in SeniorsThe Los Angeles Times takes look at depression in seniors. When dealing with her older patients, [Dr. Laura] Mosqueda tries to avoid using the term depression — or any others that might indicate a mental problem. People in their 70s, 80s and 90s are intimidated by those words, she says. “I’ll say to them,…