THE THREE MAGIC WORDS OF RESILIENCE

By Shawn Dwyer and Dr.L.Michael Hall There are three magic words that conveys the inner spirit of resilience. I stumbled onto them in reading Martin Seligman’s work on Learned Helplessness and then on Learned Optimism. In his books he tells the story of moving from […]

Short Term Thinking

Thinking is in Short Supply #4 by L.Michael Hall PhD Short Term Thinking – Another Thinking Disability I’ve been writing about why real thinking is in short supply and the various factors that actually stop thinking. Here’s another. Regarding a central time factor that’s involved […]

Transforming Depression

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ When it comes to the complex meta-state called “depression,” given that we create it as noted in the past three posts, we can now ask two very different questions. First, “How does a person create depression?” […]

Depression as pressing down

This Thing Called “Depression” ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Sometimes a word is highly informative and tells the story of all experience. This happens to be the case with “depression”. People who suffer depression not only go through a disappointment, loss, frustration, etc., […]

DEPRESSION: It's about the thinking

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Given that a lot of things are called “depression,” which are not clinically depression, how can you tell? A good way to begin is to use the work of Dr. David D. Burns and his classic, […]

This Thing Called "DEPRESSION"

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ We are now heading into the Christmas season and all of the holidays from Thanksgiving to New Years. For many this is the season to be jolly, however for others, ’tis the season to be depressed. […]