Many of us Baby Boomers may have gone through our lives without even hearing about histrionic personality disorder. The reason is that it not easily identifiable and even when recognized may just be seen as a personality trait, (i.e., a drama queen) rather than a disorder. There is, however, a...
As baby boomers get older, they find they must deal with all kinds of emotional roller coasters. The pitches and rolls that take place in later life can cause the emotions to go into freefall, producing mood swings reminiscent of the tantrums and depressions experienced in adolescence. These moods can...
It used to be that you could identify a lot of things about a wine by just seeing the bottle…not the label, just the bottle. The size, the length of the neck and shape of the shoulders told you, in many cases, the wine’s region of origin. This, in turn,...
Dr. Karen’s Speech To Rotary Club 11/01Hi. Thanks for inviting me. I know that we’re all anxious about what happened on 9/11 and I am hoping today’s discussion will allay some of the fears by talking about the Psychological Reactions to Trauma, known as PTSD, or Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, that...
Life events that occur can include happy experiences but also things we would all rather forget. Being part of or even witnessing a traumatic event can affect us throughout our lives, recurring to haunt us when we are at our most vulnerable. Baby boomers who are old enough to have war experiences,...
The popular belief is that men age so much more attractively than women and this, at times, is true. Women with elderly problems tend to go through middle age and the booming senior years vainly trying to turn back the clock; ironing out wrinkles with the help of endless beauty preparations and...
What is somatic experiencing? It is a process by which physical and psychological problems are healed by dealing with a person’s body sensations – or somatic experiences. This form of therapy was first introduced in 1997 by Dr. Peter Levine in his book Walking the Tiger. The premise of this...
As we get older, and baby boomers are certainly doing that, we tend to experience regret for the things we always wanted to and never did; the places we wanted to travel to yet never saw; the people we always wanted to meet but never met.Some baby boomers reaching an age where they spend...
President Barack Obama introduced his plan for rescuing the sliding American economy to the nation late last year. Psychological Articles reviewing the plan have informed us that modifications have since been made, but the fundamentals remain the same. According to psychological articles the plan is to inject $75 billion into the economy in an...
