Read the latest blogs from David E. Myers, Ph.D.. David is a relational counselor and therapist serving the Birmingham, Alabama area. Dr. Myers specializes in a number of different areas, including psychotherapy, relationship counseling, help with anxiety, help with depression, and psychodynamic therapy. Read more below!
A famous study conducted by Harvard and Princeton University showed that college students admitted that they would purposely choose a performance-inhibiting drug to self-sabotage. While this is confusing, they felt it would help excuse their poor performance in the future.
In history, dreams have always been linked to sacred revelation and prophecy. Even with all the scientific information we have today, dreams continue to remain a mystery. Science often dismisses them as fragments of our imagination that manifest when portions of the brain is activated while we sleep but that doesn’t explain what we see and why.
Waiting too long to fix problems in a marriage only leads to the buildup of even more problems. Before you know it, you’re both filled with resentment for each other and it is too late to go back.
Some of us have a tendency of exaggerating our problems. Overreacting to mild headaches, common allergies and slight fever, we self-diagnose and take medication for serious health conditions that may not even plague us.
One of the biggest misconceptions people have about marriage is that it all goes downhill once the honeymoon phase is over.
Following the Oscar Wilde school of thought that claims “the very essence of romance is uncertainty”, many of us make the mistake of thinking that marriage is inevitably synonymous with permanent security.
According to a study published by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 40 million people in the U.S. suffer from anxiety attacks. That is 18.1 percent of the population.