Depression Checklist: How Do I Know If I Am Depressed?

Depression Checklist: How Do I Know If I Am Depressed?

How Do You Know If You’re Depressed? How do you know if you’re depressed? Depression is one of those illnesses that can be tricky to self-diagnose. For instance, if you’re feeling sad, are you just having a bad day – or week? Is it just a rough time in your life? Or is it depression? If you have a difficult time concentrating, are you suffering from depression or are you just distracted? If you don’t feel like going out with your friends...

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What is psychotherapy good for?

What is psychotherapy good for?

People don’t create success in their lives because they are going after what other people want. There are forces at work that drive success and failures. This force is often unrecognized  and unidentified.  We go about our daily lives without knowing that they promulgate our lives.    The force is our beliefs.  Our beliefs are the ideas that we accept as true often without  question.  Socrates said an unexamined life is not worth living. ...

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What to do on a first date

What to do on a first date

Like many men and women that come to me they ask where is he/she.  Why haven’t I found them yet? They talk about lack of commitment and catching people in lies. They talk about bad first dates that never lead to a second date.  They dismiss New York City as a place of whining self-involved players.  The odd thing is I have never lived in this city, have you?  When I dated I didn’t fall in love every time, but I did not find all these callous...

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Planning how to crush it

Planning how to crush it

How to crush it You hear this all the time be disruptive – just do it- be epic How do you do it?  Crickets.  I’m all for a good cheerleading session when I’m at a game.  But when it comes down to being successful I want practical hands on solutions.   Crushing it is a three-step process creating, planning and doing Manifesting You need to dream to be able to create.  But thinking big is only the first step The Wrong Way Don’t sit...

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Undead Phone Heads

Undead Phone Heads

There is an epidemic in this country and it is ruining lives.It causes depression, anxiety and loneliness. It’s your phone. That obsessive item that never leaves your hand and more importantly your mind. But there is a way out of the nightmare. First let’s check if your one of the undead. You see them everywhere bent over their phones. They appear in fetal position in the subways, they crash into you on the sidewalk and into each other. They...

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Why you shouldn’t have a work wife/husband

Why you shouldn’t have a work wife/husband

I met with a client who was continually distracted by the going ons of two colleagues who sat near her. It was daily whisperings, giggles and flirtations. They were a pair referred to affectionately and not so affectionately as Mr. and Mrs. A work wife and a work husband. They were both about the same age. He was unremarkable and she was blonde and willowy. Though it isn’t fair to say he was unremarkable. He is getting married in three months....

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