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According to The National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 21 million American adults, or about 9.5 percent of people 18 and older in a given year, have a mood disorder, including major depression, dysthymia (chronic, mild depression), and bipolar disorder. [From my article Making Good Use of Depression. Photo: actor Hayden Christensen from the book [...]
In his article “One Approach to Apply Immediately When Stress is Affecting Your Professional and Personal Life!“, Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. writes : “Mindfulness is the ability to intentionally paying attention to the present moment without our filters of judgment (e.g., good/bad, right/wrong, fair/unfair). “In other words, it is the art of cultivating the ability to [...]
happiness research, mindfulness, depression relief products, positive psychology Learning to be happy “It’s almost as if this happiness stuff has anticipated the hard times to come. As we’re going into this recession, perhaps depression, it’s interesting to note there’s been this big upsurge of work on happiness just prior to that.” That is David Van [...]
“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” Janis Joplin One form of compromise is learned helplessness – an emotional and behavioral response in which a human being (or other animal) has learned to “give up” or act as if they are helpless, and loses motivation to act in their own best interest in a situation, [...]
The darkness before the dawn “Being happy is something you have to learn.” Harrison Ford Ford certainly has known plenty of unhappiness. He was shy as a child, bullied at school for not “fitting in.” According to Laura Silva Quesada, in her article A reminder from Indiana Jones, “Every day, they’d tease the future Indiana [...]
Excerpts from article Art and Happiness, by painter Robert Genn : In the recently published “Against Happiness,” popular writer Eric Wilson disparages our current love affair with putting on a happy face. With our “feel good” culture and the widespread use of happy drugs, everybody’s trying to be cheerful and there are no decent dollops [...]
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 [...]
Eric Maisel, PhD, is author of The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression. In our recent interview, he addresses some of the meaning and mood issues facing creators. Q: The kinds of anxiety we call stage fright, or fear of the blank canvas (or blank page) — can these be related to [...]
Author, artist, performer, and creativity coach Janet Riehl interviewed Eric Maisel, PhD about his book The Van Gogh Blues: A Creative Person’s Path Through Depression. [Also see it on her site riehlife.com, with additional links.] Janet Riehl: Eric, what I hear you saying is that when creative people in particular maintain a connection to their [...]
“Sometimes you get to a point where you can’t stop what you are thinking. It’s like you’re being taken over by a demon.” Excerpts from article: Jennifer Capriati tries to beat her demons, By Wayne Coffey, NYDailyNews.com July 15th 2007: Photo: Former child prodigy Jennifer Capriati is finding peace in her life in her home [...]
“I only know that summer sang in me a little while, that in me sings no more.” That excerpt from one of her sonnets expresses how much poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) probably knew of depression. Singer Marie Osmond has described her experiences suffering from postpartum depression in her book Behind the Smile: “I’m [...]
One study has shown that as young as the fifth grade, Asian-American girls have the highest rate of depression… “Model minority” pressure — the pressure some Asian-American families put on children to be high achievers at school and professionally — helps explain the problem. Professor Eliza Noh says, “In my study, the model minority pressure [...]
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness [bipolar disorder]. When you’re high it’s tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones.” Psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, M.D. – in her article [...]
Actor Virginia Madsen talks about her experience in ski school [Yes, Virginia, by Karen Breslau, More Magazine]: Her third day on skis [Breslau writes], she persuaded her instructor to take her to the top of a black-diamond run — the kind inevitably named Devil’s Gulch or Dead Man’s Curve. She wanted to test herself. “I [...]
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Site author: Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth, especially for high ability adults. He is publisher of the Talent Development Resources series of sites.
