Marriage is hard. For Baby Boomers (born from 1943 to 1960), it was a case of marry young and adapt. As a recipe for success, it has been an abysmal failure: 52.7 percent of marriages now end in divorce. For Millennials (1977 to 2000), aka the “Me generation”, it’s apparently even harder. Fully 30 percent…

It’s perfectly normal to feel stressed out on the job now and then. Far too often, we tend to take our work ‘home with us,’ and continue to think about the things that caused stress and anxiety throughout the day. On top of it, it’s nearly impossible to have a job where everything goes according…

Maybe it’s happened to you. Some trigger, some event or even something not understood causes it to happen. Hands sweat, heart beat increases, breathing becomes rapid, head becomes dizzy, stomach may become upset and the world feels like it’s falling apart. A sense of impending doom prevails. You’re having a panic attack although it might…

We’ve all seen the face of depression on others and perhaps on ourselves. We’ve seen it on a troubled teenager or a mother immediately after the birth of her child. We’ve seen it on every race, profession, religion and socioeconomic group. We’ve seen it on senior citizens and people with critical illness. We’ve seen it…

What is separation anxiety? You’ve probably seen it before. A young child dives into a fit of anxiety when the parent leaves him or her..at daycare..at school. The place of departure is not the issue. The departure itself is the issue. You’ve probably seen a parent enter a state of anxiety when concerns for their…

Abuse takes many forms and affects people of all ages throughout the world. Abuse usually affects the most vulnerable in society and leaves victims in a fractured state both emotionally and sometimes physically. Some common forms of abuse are child abuse, sexual abuse, elder abuse and intimate partner abuse. Before healing may begin, the victim,…

Asians have the same number of mental health issues as any other culture in the world, including Americans. However, many Asians aren’t quick to adopt the ways of Western culture and many of its practices. This includes things like therapy. For Asian-Americans, this can be a struggle. There is not only a sense of pride…

America continues to be a land of opportunity for many people, and perhaps in this day and age, there is no better group of people for that old saying to apply to than South East Asian Indians, making the trek to California from Mumbai. Many people leave Mumbai to get away from ‘slum-like’ areas, where…

Even if we don’t admit it to others, many of us think negative, or ‘self loathing’ thoughts about ourselves multiple times a day. It’s practically become normal in the society we live in, where standards of beauty, perfection, etc. seem to be higher than ever, and no one can live up to the expectations provided…

Sex Addiction – How To Keep It From Taking Over Your Life Sex addiction, or hypersexual disorder, is a disorder in which thoughts that are sexual in nature are ever-increasing, and ever-necessary to the individual dealing it with. So much so, in fact, that the addiction itself, and the thoughts and ideas that go along…

Whether you’ve experienced it many times, or just once, somehow the face of grief in any serious loss hits us all just as hard, every time it comes up. It is the natural response to a deep loss of any kind, and even though we tend to think of grief mostly when someone we love…

Betrayal is often one of the deepest reasons we find ourselves in the midst of divorce. It can break trust indefinitely, while stirring up deep, raw emotions we didn’t even realize we could have. Whether the betrayal arises because of infidelity, lies, or something completely unique and personal, it is a hard concept to accept,…

Dreams have been present since the dawn of man, as a natural occurrence that happens when we sleep. Dreams are mentioned multiple times in the historical tales of the Bible, through classic literature, and have been the subject of many scientific studies. Everyone dreams, including animals, and they are a seemingly ‘involuntary’ operation. But, there…