LAURA ADDERLEY

If you live life in terror of your symptoms returning (or not abating), you are living half a life. I don’t know anything worse than...

So, What are boundaries, and why are they so darn important? A boundary means knowing where I end and you begin. It is what separates us...

Bullying. The topic that is on everybody's radar these days. Bullying causes actual harm to real people and is as widespread as ever -...

What qualifies a person or an entity as toxic? My definition is one who undermines your forward progress, makes you feel inadequate, and...

So, why do we feel like we have to keep up with the Jones'? Why do we even care what our neighbor is up to? Where does the drive to fit...

So, I just had a shitty week. I was struggling mightily with the Beast which is my suicidality, and I was on the losing end. Now, there...

Did the depression cause the pain, or did the pain cause the depression?? Now THAT is the question of the hour! Truth be told, ongoing...

So, you're wondering how (if, at all) one can manage their suicidality? To be able to visualize my villain, I nicknamed my suicidality...

I’ve written on the importance of support systems, but I think that one’s circle of friends may very well be the most important of those...

So, what is the function of suicidality, you ask? Suicidal ideation, the focus on suicide to the exclusion of most everything else, is...

Night, night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the bed bugs bite. Sleep is one of my biggest problems, one of the most consistently nefarious...

1.) Just get over it. (Really?! As if I'm a Nike ad!) 2.) You sound better, so you must be doing better. 3.) think yourself happy – it's...

Two weeks ago, I lost my beloved Basset hound, Landis Leeron. Landy Loo was my comedian, my comic relief, my love, my cranky old man. I...

People-pleasing – we all do it to one degree or another. Whether it’s a problem depends on how we encode our people-pleasing. If we are...

One definition of hope – which is also my definition – is going on when everything seems impossible. It is the belief in the future. Hope...

So, am I Ebenezer? Bah Humbug?? I mean, who doesn’t make resolutions? (Well, me for one! Hold on - that’s coming up.) The way I see it,...

As the holiday season is upon us, I thought I would share some of my favorite (or most used!) tips for getting through the holiday...

Chanukah just ended, and there are 15 days until Christmas. Are you freaking out? Do the holidays float your boat – or are they the bane...

At this time every year, we are meant to reflect on the blessings in our lives. For the suicidal person beating back the Beast that is...

So, if I reread my last blog entry, I should be cutting myself a break for not having this entry completed on time. (Do I? Nope.) *sigh*...