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Foiling Death on Golden Gate Bridge
Ever since the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937, people have been jumping off it to their deaths, about 1,200 to date. After eight decades of debate, ...
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Kay Warren's Advice for Comforting Grievers
Rick and Kay Warren's son Matthew committed suicide at the age of 27 after a long struggle with mental illness. About a year after his death, Kay ...
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Author Tries to Find a "Cure" for His Anxiety
In an article in The Atlantic magazine, Scott Stossel shares openly about his lifelong attempts to deal with the anguish of anxiety. From an early age ...
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The Price of Our Social Disconnection
Over the last 50 years, while society has been growing more and more prosperous and individualistic, our social connections have been dissolving. Emily ...
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Adversity Made Abraham Lincoln an Effective Leader
The movie Lincoln provides a glimpse into some of the challenges that President Lincoln faced while he was in office. But the level of suffering this ...
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Is Grief a Form of Mental Illness?
The New York Times ran a moving article about a professor whose son died from a drug overdose. There's a lot to mull over in this article, including ...
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Children's Book Character Carries His "Sadness Shield"
We all seem to need a strategy for coping with the experience of grief. In the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where ...
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Research Proves That Men Really Don't Like Asking for Help
We've all heard jokes about the average guy's unwillingness to ask for directions, but compared to women, are men really less likely to ask for ...
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Psychiatrist Identifies the "Gauntlet of Silence" Among Men
In his book Invisible Men, Dr. Michael E. Addis tells the story about meeting a middle-aged man named Patrick. Although by all accounts Patrick was an ...
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Psychologist Blames Unhappiness on Uncertainty
Daniel Gilbert (a psychology professor at Harvard) drew from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index and stated that the Index showed "that Americans ...
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