Quote of the day: “I tried to cry but my antidepressants won’t allow it.”

Posted by drdemarco in Articles

A friend posted this on Facebook.  It has kind of stuck with me ever since, and beautifully describes the phenomenon of feeling bad about feeling bad. While pills can definitely be a useful adjunct in taking care of your mental health, they are not the answer.  Anti-depressants don’t make you forget shitty things from your past, or bring loved ones back or keep you from drinking...

Let’s take a dive into the symptom pool

Posted by drdemarco in Articles, Therapy Styles

I’m currently reading “Crazy like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche” by Ethan Watters,  which I highly recommend.  Watters discusses the concept of the “symptom pool”, which is what informs the manifestations of mental illnesses like anorexia, for example.  In other words, we express our internal conflicts in ways that make sense to those...

Go team USA (unconditional self acceptance, that is)

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<![CDATA[// ]]>1 of 1Full Size WHISTLER (Reuters) – It was her first Winter Olympics; it also looked like her first time on skis. Four years of training resulted in a four-second flop for France’s Marion Rolland, the victim of an embarrassing spill just moments after leaving the starting gate in the women’s downhill at the Vancouver Olympics on Wednesday. ...