Reunion with family often is idealized as a quick, smooth return to "normalcy." The reality may fall short of that ideal. Those returning from military service are often hit right away with a laundry list of problems, including bills, family disputes and expectations that family interactions and intimacy will spring back to pre-war levels. Read [...]
In today's economic upheavals, downsizing, layoff, merger and bankruptcies have cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Millions more have been shifted to unfamiliar tasks within their companies and wonder how much longer they will be employed. Adding to the pressures that workers face are new bosses, computer surveillance of production, fewer health and [...]
That's the holidays this year, with many people both blue and broke—the usual melancholy compounded by the highest jobless rate in three decades and a jackknifing stock market. "Mental health problems are common and spike more often during the winter months not only because of the holidays, but also because of seasonal affective disorder," said [...]
Most people have thoughts and dreams about how their lives ought to be. When things don't work out the way they had pictured, they tend to blame other people or situations. They don't realize that the bad feelings come from their own thinking. "When things are bad, people say to themselves, 'Things aren't the way [...]
When tragedy strikes with the death of a loved one, a serious illness or a job loss, some people fall apart, while others adapt to such life-changing events more easily. Being resilient is what makes the difference. "Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy or significant stress—it means [...]