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The sticker system I’ve been using on David—where he gets a sticker for good behavior, which translates into money toward a toy–has been working so well that last night I started Eric on one. We have, in our house, what some psychologists would call “a problem.” One person sees sex as essential for surviving. The…

My good friend, Sue, celebrates 55 years of marriage today. I asked her what, more than anything else, kept her and her husband together for so long. “Compromise,” she said. “And friendship.” “Oh, thank God,” I replied, “I thought you were going to say ‘hot, steamy sex,’ and then I’d be in knee-high animal waste.”…

Reader Babs shared the following story with me back in June. The information hoarder I am, I filed it to use when I hit the topic of marriage. Voila! See? Clutter can come in handy! One day I was driving somewhere and had Dr. Dobson on the radio. This was back in the nineties sometime.…

I also printed out reader Marty’s comment. Back on the message board of “The Myth of Safe Sex.” Because I found it consoling. Oh my god! There’s hope for me!?! You used the phrase “debunks the assumption that good sex follows intimacy”, yet I believe that that assumption is exactly correct. I am a 51-year-old…

Related to the conversation on the message board of yesterday’s post, “No Joking About Crazy (Unless You’re Crazy),” here’s an interesting piece from the “Washington Post” on the disparity of coverage between health-care insurance benefits for those battling a mental disorder and those for other conditions. As you may have read in my post, “PayFirst…

Also in yesterday’s “Washington Post,” was a wonderful article about the group Active Minds, founded by Malmon to promote dialogue about mental health on college campuses. She lost her older brother, Brian, to suicide in 2002, when he was a 22-year-old college student, and she was a college freshman. To read “On Campus, a Vow…

I always love it when my Beyond Blue readers direct me to a piece of news that pisses me off. There I was … smiling as I checked my e-mail, a strong cup of coffee in my hand, and then these headlines: The Chinese won’t allow anyone taking antidepressants to adopt their babies, a woman…

Thankfully, plenty of feel-good articles also get passed to me. Lilit Marcus send this article–about actress Claire Danes and her 22 years of therapy to overcome a neurosis that began when she was six. Here’s the Associated Press/ABC Action News article. I was glad to see such a beautiful face talking about therapy and mental…

Since I am such a huge Seinfeld fan–I swear the script writers studied my life before crafting each episode–I thought I’d include an excerpt from Jerry Seinfeld’s book, “SeinLanguage,” which I own, of course. I try to exercise his wisdom and make people “break their face” throughout the day. Because many times I feel that’s…

Dear God, In Luke’s gospel (Luke 10:1-10), Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector and a wealthy man, wants to see Jesus. But he’s short, and there’s a crowd around Jesus, like usual. So he climbs a sycamore tree to get a better view. The story goes on to say Jesus saw him in the tree, and…
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