As she noted at the start of her blog (in 2005), writer Liz Spikol “struggles with mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder and OCD. I was also diagnosed with dissociative disorder N.O.S. — which means I suffer from intermittent depersonalization and derealization.”
Here is part of a New York Times article that includes Spikol and others who [...]

Heather Thomas based her new novel “Trophies” on Hollywood trophy wives - women who, she says “get a bad rap, and there’s a lot of misconceptions about them. But really, there isn’t a hospital wing or a library in this city that wasn’t the result of some trophy wife’s efforts.”
Continued on Women and Talent

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., an experimental social psychologist, notes each of us is born with a particular “happiness set point” – “a baseline or potential for happiness.” She has conducted “the first controlled experimental intervention studies to increase and maintain a person’s happiness level over and above” this set point.
In her book The How of Happiness: [...]

“As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.” - Kim Basinger
Many of us were shy as children, and [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal: [about her film SherryBaby] Obviously, I understood that all the things that happened in the movie were painful for her, but I didn’t let that into the work. Then all the terrible things I’ve had to go through surfaced after we’d finished shooting.
And I got over it. I don’t think I could play [...]

In her article How Much Do You Need to Know Before You’re an Expert?, career counselor Valerie Young of Changing Course describes a number of self-limiting beliefs about qualification and competence. Here are some quotes:
You’re especially prone to the Expert Trap if you mistakenly believe that competence and expertise are one and the same. The [...]

A recent Associated Press article talks about actress, singer and songwriter Miley Cyrus and her “controversial photo” at age 15 in Vanity Fair as presenting “a great opportunity for parents to discuss how seemingly innocuous photos posted to a blog or social networking site can be misinterpreted.”
But acclaimed author Germaine Greer says, “No matter how [...]