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I Just Can’t Live Without It

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by MLHeller on February 23, 2009

in 2009,Acting out,Anxiety, depression and mood,Childhood development,Food and love,General Archives,Human development,Impulse control,Parenting,Shopping and spending,Unconscious processes

This column originally appeared in the Orange County Register.

Much has been written lately about impulsive behavior, particularly excessive spending or shopping, as its problematic consequences have become increasingly obvious as our economy continues to implode. [click to continue…]

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Sadness and Mourning

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by MLHeller on June 1, 2008

in 2008,Anxiety, depression and mood,Childhood development,Death and dying,Empathy,False self - Real self,Feelings,General Archives,Grief and loss,Human development,Infant development,Language, memory and thought,Parenting,Preverbal body memories,Relationships,Shopping and spending,States of consciousness,Unconscious processes

This column originally appeared in the Orange County Register

A screenwriter friend gave me an article discussing the salutary aspects of sadness and the ways in which our contemporary culture tends to quickly erase it or prematurely foreclose upon its gritty psychological usefulness in a quest for perennial cheery happiness.  As if happiness were a concrete object one could hold instead of a transitory state of being, one of many, that links specific inner notations of experience with external ones. [click to continue…]

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