The above is a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King and the rest of the quote is: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of mutuality.” Margaret Meade once said: if we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut…

In an earlier blog I mentioned research by Ms. Fredrickson and her colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that involved one group receiving training in metta meditation while a control group did not. The metta meditation really seemed to help that group feel better and be more positively connected to others.…

When we treat other people as if they are statistics then we are separating ourselves from those people. This is because when we choose to not see other people as individuals we don’t really see them at all, like when we stereotype others by treating them as if they are like everyone else in a…

The most recent AACAP News summarized an article by Copeland, etal., in JAMA Psychiatry 20:1-8 that looked at children and adolescents who were bullied or the bullies 10 years later. This was a follow-up from the Great Smoky Mountain Epidemiological study that was done in wesern North Carolina. They found that both those who were…

Over the past several months I have helped a number of people who have had traumatic experiences that keep bothering them even after they are no longer exposed to the traumatic situation[s]. They report becoming very anxious very rapidly when anything reminds them of the traumatic events. They often have develped a number of good…

Taming is a reference to what the fox is teaching the little prince in the book by Saint Exupery called The Little Prince. In this book the fox is helping the Prince to understand what it means to care about others that the fox calls “taming” others. The Prince learns that because he cares for and loves…

Bipolar II disorder [I will refer to this as BP2 for rest of blog] made the news when it was reported that the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones was given this diagnosis. Most people are aware of bipolar I disorder [BP1] yet BP2 is more prevalent and has significant levels of morbidity [the impact of the illness…

As i was watching a TV special entitled “the 1619 project” [1619 is the first year that slaves were brought to America] it became clearer to me what is meant by the message that African Americans who were enslaved were protecting our democratic form of government when they challenged every attempt to undermine our democracy…

Jason Fletcher from the Yale School of Public Health published a study showing some of the economic impact of childhood ADD/ADHD on the adult labor market. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Dr. Fletcher shows that employment is reduced by 10-14%, earnings are reduced by one third and the need for…

I was reading Arthur The Seeing Stone, by Kevin Crossley-Holland and one of the characters [protrayed as Merlin] mentioned that “Doubt is like rust which corrodes metal. It travels from your brain into your body and eats you away.” Then alittle later another quote referring to doubt was “Nothing comes of doubt, except inaction and…