Living with bipolar disorder can test your sense of hope. Yet with purpose, support, and connection, it can be rediscovered and renewed. Hope guides us through our darkest times. Without it, we stay ...

In 1965 Martin Seligman "discovered" learned helplessness. He found that when animals are subjected to difficult situations they cannot control, they stop trying to escape. They become passive. Human ...

A man wrote to me two weeks after his wife had died, and then again a couple of weeks later. He was ambivalent about this blog, on one hand finding the shared experience validating and on the other ...