by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Apr 11, 2016 | Parenting
My school-age grandson was filled with the importance of the story he was telling me. He paused as someone flew a paper airplane over our heads and their mother had to put a stop to that. She made a remark; I made another one back, and before you knew it, my...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 28, 2016 | Mental Health
A fellow therapist recommended Richard Carlson’s book, You Can Feel Good Again: Commonsense Strategies For Releasing Unhappiness and Changing Your Life. I had asked her because she is a sex therapist and a couple I was seeing had a particular sexual issue. They...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Mar 13, 2012 | Neuroscience
In my last blog post reviewing Marc Lewis’ book, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs, I indicated that our brains, with all their neuronal and chemical intricacy, appear to respond to a higher authority than just chemistry....
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Mar 5, 2012 | Neuroscience
When depression hits, what do you do? When your Life Partner is not good enough to chase away the anxiety, what do you do? When past, black predictions by parents or others of your future failure, haunt your thoughts, what do you do? Well, of course, you blame your...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 13, 2012 | Mental Health
Ella, the wife of depressed Maurice is given 5 strategies in this video to handle her husband’s depression and feel good about...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 10, 2012 | Mental Health
How a depressed person can work on himself to get out of...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Feb 6, 2012 | Mental Health
How do you handle your spouse’s...
by DrDeb Hirschhorn | Jan 12, 2007 | Neuroscience
REPRINTED BY PERMISSION from FLorida Jewish News We take medicine to feel better, right? If we, God forbid, are diabetic and diet can’t get it under control, we can take medicine for it. For a headache, have an acetaminophen. For a tricky ticker, there’s an array of...