Mental Health First Aid for Partners and Families
What if rendering help to others in a mental health crisis was as widely accepted as giving CPR to someone in cardiac arrest or doing the Heimlich maneuver when someone…
Blog Month: October 2011
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When Your Partner Is On Suboxone
The good news: your partner is getting help for their drug addiction to opioids (vicodin, oxycontin, oxycodone, percocet, morphine, fentanyl, dilaudid, heroin, opium, or any other opiate). The not-so-good news:…
After Partner Suicide: Healing the Heart
A friend of mine and I were talking at dinner the other night about a recent Grand Rounds lecture at Duke. The speaker was an expert on suicide, also known…
This Emotional Life: Info for Partners
A client recently introduced me to the PBS series This Emotional Life, which she had watched and shared with her husband. She said he found it helpful in understanding more…
Post-Partum Depression: What’s Happening to My Partner?
Having a baby is supposed to be exciting and bring joy to your life. Sure, everyone knows the first few weeks of having a newborn at home brings sleep deprivation…
Is Your Partner Anxious or Depressed?
On Monday, I talked about how depression in men can look more like “grumpiness,” masking what’s really going on inside. Today, we’ll discuss how anxiety and depression can often look…
Is Your Man Grumpy or Depressed?
Men get the short end of the stick when it comes to being diagnosed with depression. The current DSM criteria for depression can be manipulated 1,099 different ways in order…
Six Self-Care Steps for Partners
A common theme for this blog is how important it is for well partners to practice self-care in order to survive the ups and downs of having a partner with…
Employment and Your Partner with ADHD
I wasn’t terribly surprised this morning when my client with ADHD, whom I’ve been working with on and off since last spring, told me that her job search had lapsed…
World Mental Health Day: Partners in Wellness
Today is World Mental Health Day, and as you may have noticed, there are a lot of people discussing the broken mental health system in our country. It’s a sad…