Online Self-Help Book for Mental Health, Mental Illness. The first "noble truth" of Buddhism states a fact that is obvious to many people who will be reading this document: life involves suffering.
At various times in life, most people will be faced with one or more mental health, wellness or life issues that will cause them pain in one form or another and which they will want to rid themselves of. People faced with such issues and illnesses have three basic options for getting help. They can seek help from medical or mental health professionals (or people who hold themselves out as teachers of one sort or another); they can choose to work on their problems themselves through a process of self-help; or they can combine professional/teacher and self-help approaches. There are many benefits to be had from professional helpers. In some cases and for some problems, the only real benefits that can be had are had through professional helpers. How marriages get into trouble - Relationship Problems – Tools to Build and Maintain a Healthy Marriage. Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. Updated: May 16th 2006 The question of why some marriages fail while others stay healthy is not the mystery it once was.
Through careful observation and research, social scientists have come to appreciate the stages through which the majority of marriages pass, the types of life events that tend to be associated with relationship problems, and the predictable patterns that tend to emerge when marriages do begin to fail. "Forewarned is forearmed", or so the saying goes.
Learning about these predictable stages and patterns can perhaps help couples to better understand when a relationship problem is cause for alarm and help should be sought and when what appears to be problematic is nothing to be concerned about. Expectable marriage patterns In the large majority of cases, the early years of a marriage are the happiest. It certainly isn't fair that passion tends to die down over time, but it is an observable fact. Some marriages fail. Emotional Manipulator, Personality Disorder or Both? - Relationship Problems – Tools to Build and Maintain a Healthy Marriage. How can I know if my husband has a personality disorder? We have been married for 2 yrs, have a 20 month old son and are in marriage counselling and have had 2 appointments. I have seen an independent counselor who believes my husband is emotionally manipulating me.
Yet the marriage counselor does not see any personality disorder. He makes lists for me, is never happy when I complete the tasks he wants, and I see a cycle with his moods. He drinks 2-3 beers a night and smokes and says I am stressing him out not his job. I am a MSN RN with a minor in Psych and believe him to be some cluster C disorder or part sociopath because he lacks empathy with me, but has so much emotion with our son and is a GREAT DAD. What steps can I take other than what we have? Mismatched Expectations on Average Duration of Cough - List Of Medical Disorders And Resources. The Fine Art of Listening Can Transform the Quality of Your Communication and Relationships - Relationship Problems – Tools to Build and Maintain a Healthy Marriage.
Will Joel Friedman, Ph.D. Updated: Aug 19th 2010 An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Awakening to Sanity: Being Sane in an Insane World—A Traveler's Guide I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. —Robert McCloskey Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. It is a common experience to formulate your response in your head and wait none too patiently for another to complete their speaking so you can share your far more important opinion.
Nothing would seem to be more primary to presence than cultivating the fine art of honest, whole-hearted listening in interested calm silence. "Most people have never really been listened to. There are no words to adequately describe what it is to be free with another person. When someone really listens to us, our blood flows in his or her veins. 1. 2.