What follows is an example from my own experience that illustrates the type of outcomes one can expect using Coping Skills #3A - Others Don't Make You Angry. At one point in my business career, the chairman of the board of a large holding corporation asked me to take the position of vice president of finance of a subsidiary company... Read more
Becoming angry at what someone has said and/or done to us, or about us, and exhibiting the behaviors that society has defined as an appropriate in response to such an offense, almost always uses up a lot of time and energy. Our time and energy are not unlimited and to waste these on such emotions as anger and its associated behaviors is... Read more
In this blog, I intend to define and provide an example of how Active Listening works, but before I do that I want to personally thank Don Fraser, David Robbins and Ellen G. for their comments on my blog entitled Coping Skills #2A - Active Listening which I posted on February 24th, as well as the comments they have made on earlier blogs.... Read more
Being a biological scientist by training with graduate work in psychology, and having developed schizophrenia over fifty years ago at the age of thirteen, I was thrilled to see the article in the February 24, 2008 issue of The New York Times by Alex Berenson concerning the initial success of researchers in treating schizophrenia using... Read more
We live in an encyclopedic, sound-byte, slogan filled era with more passwords than people. Blogs and the like are supposed to be short, self-contained, electronic documents best without external references. Text messaging employs an arcane vocabulary. [I asked my daughter what "lol" meant; she lol'd at my ignorance.] When... Read more