Does Your Weekend Exhaust You?
Do you feel exhausted after the weekend? The allure of pleasant, in the moment, and easy activities is powerful. After a long week, it’s...
Is Relaxing Overrated?
The media, physicians, and respected authorities on health and wellness wag their well-meaning fingers telling us to take it easy. They inform us that...
Do you have NDD?
According to a recent survey seventy-five percent of children spend less time outside than the average prison inmate.
Yes, that means Bernie Madoff gets more...
The Paradox of Horror: Why We Love To Be Afraid
Why do some people love to be afraid? Psychologists tell us we are pleasure-seeking and pain-avoiding creatures and yet many are drawn to scary...
Rethinking The Winter Blues
In medical school I was taught to look out for Seasonal Affective Disorder, SAD, during the cold dark months. I expected my patients’ depression...
How Much Does Happiness Cost?
We know that money can’t buy you happiness. In an effort to understand the link between money and well-being, psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Michael...