Do you have times where it's like a light switch goes off, and your friends know that they have three minutes to feed you or you will kill them? Do you crave sugar? These are symptoms suggesting that your body's Adrenal Gland stress handling system is getting exhausted. Here's how you can support your adrenal "stress handler," so that you can feel better. 

People-pleasers are proficient at pleasing everyone . . . but themselves. They are master accommodators, intuiting what is wanted of them and--in both word and deed--bestowing on others the attentiveness and care they’ll typically deny themselves.

Parts 1 and 2 of this post gave several helpful tips on how to think in a disaster situation. This part reviews two important topics: understanding how disasters happen and how your behavior affects disaster situations. Here are a few tips for acting productively in a disaster.

Part 1 of this blog gave several ideas on how your way of thinking can work for you in a disaster situation. This part will continue with more tips on perfecting your "survival attitude."

A person's attitude has a lot to do with his or her chances of survival in a disaster. Here are some tips for productive ways of thinking that can assist you when disaster strikes.

Since I was a child with a severe case of what is known as attention-deficit disorder, I have been extremely interested in the new explosion in new cases and the sudden interest in new trends in diagnoses. The number of children categorized under this label are above 17 million cases, appearing to be one of the greatest mental health epidemic of our times. The question was whether there were any bases for this unique disorder and if so, what factors have predicted such a huge outbreak of cases.

Why get tested for memory loss when you can worry like hell about it instead?

Resilience is someting that most people need to make it through the rougher times of life.

Yes, you really can turn heads in your 40s (and 50s?). Now get to work!

Perhaps more than anything else, our mental and emotional well-being depends on our willingness to confront obstacles in life. The all-too-common alternative, of course, is simply to retreat from them. If, however, we're genuinely to progress and feel good about ourselves, we need to resist the ever-present temptation to withdraw from whatever we'd prefer not having to deal with.

Would you feel like you'd still like to be president after you have just been liberated from six years of captivity?

Daily I look around me and observe how people shy away from genuine, self-revealing communication--almost as though to embark on such a path would be like walking into a minefield, where a single misstep might be fatal. But the communication we all long for--a powerful, expressive dialogue that might spiritually connect us to each another--is in fact fraught with danger and uncertainty. So almost all of us experience the need to carefully monitor just how much of ourselves we divulge to others.

Addressing this topic generally, the immortal Dagwood Bumstead once claimed: "You can't teach people to be lazy--either they have it, or they don't." So what is laziness anyway? Is it about being slow to do something (what we typically call procrastination)? . . . Or about doing something slowly? . . . Or about not doing it at all? . . . Or, finally, is it about not sufficiently wanting to do something? And if this last alternative is true, when we label someone lazy are we really talking about that person's being indolent, sluggish, or slothful? Or is there something else going on that hasn't yet been appreciated?

At one pole of communication stands passivity: not speaking out for fear of adverse consequences. At the other end stands aggressiveness. . .

Why do smart people underestimate risks that they take but worry about highly improbable events? Why are we blind to what is right in front of us, but think that we can see things that never happen?

When resentment begins to overwhelm compassion, it forms a self-linking chain that makes you look for things to resent as protection from disappointment. At that point it starts a downward spiral of irritability, impatience, restlessness, bickering, cold shoulders, stonewalling, angry outbursts, and, eventually, emotional abuse.

Object constancy suggests that, at some point in our early development, humans express the capacity to understand that ‘out of sight' doesn't mean ‘gone'. This is a very important idea, as it is one of the core elements of interpersonal relationship and informs everything from romantic love to jealousy to Borderline Personality Disorder.

Think of this when you’re tempted to be rude to a surly waiter or to lean on the horn in response to an aggressive driver or when you want to dismiss or ignore to insult or malign someone you think deserves it: You are contributing, however indirectly, to child abuse, domestic violence, and other harmful behaviors.

We are in continual fear of terrorism ---and we spend billions of dollars to prevent it. But so many other preventable causes of death are treated with relative indifference. Why is terrorism so terrifying?