The Blog

Tis’ the Season for Boundaries

By Jayson Blair In the classic Christmas carol playlist, Let It Snow, one of my favorites, I find myself at times fixating, out of context, on the words “no place to go.” Whether I am listening to Dean Martin, Bing

Read More »

The Many Faces of Robin Williams

By Jayson Blair Standing in the front of the coffee table last night, I picked up my phone to check the news and saw the headline. Robin Williams was dead at the age 63. I clicked on the link with

Read More »

Not depressed, just sad, lonely or unhappy

This author muses over the fact that some of what is called depression may be the results of common human afflictions. Loss, bereavement, failure, unrequited love and other common experiences. This may be so but some folks experience a degree

Read More »

DiffDx: Anxiety About Anxiety

By Jayson Blair, Certified Life Coach It’s a jungle out there. And one of the hardest forests to untangle your way through is the differences between stress and anxiety, and the differences between the many anxiety disorders. It’s enough to

Read More »

DiffDx: The Importance of An Accurate Diagnosis

By Jayson Blair, Certified Life Coach The importance of a good diagnosis has become even clearer as pharmaceutical companies have further refined their biological silver bullets for mental illness. Medicines like, for example, serotonin reuptake inhibitors can be targeted to

Read More »

SAD and Blue: Ward off Winter Depression

By Valerie Tunks     If short days and cold weather have you feeling down, you’re not alone.  According to PsychCentral.com, the “winter blues” or clinically speaking, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), affects up to 5% of the population.  Feelings of

Read More »