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Be Happy
Author: Rebecca Martorella
If someone asked you how happy you were on a scale of 1 to 10, what would your answer be?
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HBO’s In Treatment: Reviews From Those in the Business
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
As a psychologist, I am always interested in how the process of therapy is portrayed in the media. After Dr. Melfi on The Sopranos, I fell in love with Jane Alexander as Dr. May Foster on the HBO series Tell Me You Love Me. I’ve not yet seen HBO’s In Treatment, but because I love my field and in the name of good comparison shopping, I will make sure I do...
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Winter Blues: When the Holidays Are Not So Merry
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Now that 2008 is upon us and we begin reflecting on the holidays, some of us may feel a little twinge of uncertainty, exhaustion, and relief that is over. Wasn’t this year’s Christmas supposed to be the perfect one? A festive, cheery, happy, traditional family holiday? Well, in my line of work, it is often the opposite.
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Is There a Therapist in the House?
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Are you kidding? As with so many others in my chosen profession, I was groomed to be a therapist from as early as I can remember, before I was three.
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Feeling Bad? You May Be Suffering from SAD
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Those of us Fifty and Furthermore are especially vulnerable to being shut in during cold, yucky winter days. Clouds, ice and snow may not be our best friends. As we age we tend to be more sensitive to climatic changes.
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Rolling With the Punches
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Life is unpredictable. Change happens and just when you adapt to the newness, it happens again. One of the things I’ve learned in my 65 years is to draw my life’s blueprint in pencil.
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Death and Life: The New Normal
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
FiftyandFurthermore.com is a site for those in the second half of life, for those who aren't there yet but know someone who is, and for anyone who believes that the years ahead, though they may call us to new paths, can be the best ones yet.
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Stuff Your Anger or Express it?
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
As a therapist I’ve always been in favor of airing marital differences in as constructive a manner as possible. I’ve even spent countless hours teaching couples how to fight fair. Multiple studies indicate that holding onto stress is not good for your health. And over the years, I’ve seen how unexpressed hostility can damage intrapersonal and interpersonal marital health.
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Coping With Change: Jump and the Net Will Appear
Author: Joan Allen
I never dreamed I would be a hippie at 54. Mainly because I never was a hippie in my youth. When my 16 year-old friend came back with stories of his adventures from Woodstock, I asked him, “What’s a joint?”
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Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Saging
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
As I work with people fifty and over, I am aware that no matter how important the psychologically related issues of their personal lives may be, it is rare when spirituality doesn't become an issue fairly early in our work together.
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Aging, Saging and Depression
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
As a psychologist, it is mandatory to be licensed. As with other professionals in other fields, in order to maintain my status, my state outlines the number of continuing education courses (CEU’s) I must take within a given time period. The last course I took focused on depression in the aging population.
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What to do about the Holiday Blues
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Thanksgiving through the New Year can be a particularly vulnerable time for those fifty and furthermore. The media, society and those around you tell you to be happy. Instead, you may be ill or infirm or missing your children and/or grandchildren. If you are part of a blended family in the midst of intergenerational conflict, a widow or widower, divorced or alone or if you have economic woes that seem overwhelming, life this holiday season may feel less joyous than the songs tell you to be.
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Life is Difficult (in honor of Scott Peck)
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
“Life is difficult,” wrote M. ScottPeck, MD, in The Road Less Traveled in 1978, a life-changing work and one of the best-selling books of all time. By melding love, science, and religion into a primer on personal growth, M. Scott Peck launched his highly successful writing and lecturing career with this book. Even to this day, Peck remains at the forefront of spiritual psychology as a result of The Road Less Traveled. In the era of “I’m OK, you’re OK,” Peck was courageous enough to suggest that
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From Distressing to De-Stressing
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
No one ever walks into a therapist’s office on a whim. It’s not like walking out of the house to by a new pair of shoes, new undergarments or a birthday present for a loved one.
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Looking Back
Author: Roscoe Dellums
I'm 63, and sometimes I review what I wrote in the tumultuous 60's while struggling with the changing political and social scene as a woman, Pacifist and African American. In the 70's as a young romantic, I wrote lyrics for singers and musicians.
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Transition
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Passage from one stage, place, stage, or subject to another—so states the dictionary definition—words that describe movement, but that say nothing of substance and the depth of human feeling. Nothing of nights spent tossing and turning, when craving sleep we lie awake, fighting our personal demons and feelings of failure.
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Qualities to Consider in a Potential Therapist
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Okay, you know you want a mental health professional who knows what he or she is doing, who cares and who is a decent human being. Won't most therapists fit this description? This is where needing help while simultaneously selecting the right helper starts to become a bit of a muddle. You need to ask yourself several questions when choosing your mental health helper.
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Cosmetic Surgery: Is Plastic the New Reality?
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
"It doesn't happen all at once… You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
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