Welcome to my website and to the complementary 'Tools and Skills' program for health and well-being. I am a licensed clinical psychologist and a listed member in the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry, with an office in Palm Beach County, at the Boca Raton airport, serving the South Florida areas of Boca Raton, Palm Beach, Ft.
Lauderdale and the rest of the world. Now on Skype, I am available for consultation to any location in the world for either clinical or sports related issues.
Lauderdale and the rest of the world. Now on Skype, I am available for consultation to any location in the world for either clinical or sports related issues.
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Relationships are difficult to keep alive. Many relationships die along the way but have a capacity to endure the deadness through the years. We are not taught how to be in a relationship, or how to maintain one, nor are we taught about the obstacles along the way. Our model for marriage is from the observation of our parents who may have been as blind to the complexity of a successful relationship as we are.
Depression is not a choice. We no more choose to be depressed than a flower chooses to wilt when deprived of sunshine. Until our understanding of depression changes, we are doomed to suffer its most devastating effects. We offer superficial suggestions such as, "just get over it", "the past is in the past", "stop moping", "stop feeling sorry for yourself".
We all experience anxiety at different times and different situations; but when anxiety is constant, overwhelming and interferes with our ability to sleep and generally function, we may be developing an anxiety disorder. These include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias and generalized anxiety disorder.
Everyone can now have a mental diagnosis: adjustment disorder, phobias, character disorder, borderline, paranoid, eating disorders, sleep disorders, the list goes on and on. Are they necessary? Not really! Do all of these diagnostic labels lend to our greater understanding of the problems people suffer through their lives?
For most, the evolution of emotional problems begins in the early developmental years and gradually progresses to compromise life in significant ways. But there are incidents that occur which are so profound, so disastrous, and so catastrophic that the events overwhelm every internal system. The consequence is the shattering of the internal sense of self as well as the self-regulating physiological systems.
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