Dr. Ed Diener and Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener offer the mental health community their FLOURISHING scale. It is a simple, eight item likkert-rating scale. There is no reversed-scored item in Ed’s work, and all thanks to him for that. The scale is completely available, thanks to Ed’s and Robert’s generosity. You are permitted to download it […]
Automatic happiness? Sounds like a science fiction story about cheery robots. But that’s our topic for today. It turns out that online help automates mental health. How can that be bad? Well, only research can tell us how good or bad it is. The model is to offer self-help resources to people suffering from anxiety, […]
The deck off the south door of our house is over twenty years old now. While we have taken good care of it, a twenty year old deck will show its age. The third step on the stairs from the deck has two nails that work their way up. I see them and shudder to […]
Recently a man asked me how to keep people working hard when they aren’t having much success. His business involves encouraging people to make sales of the company’s products. His products are of high quality, but not everyone wants them. So the sales representatives have to make a lot of calls to make their sales […]
Dr. Ed Suarez at Duke has published another study on c-reactive protein and depression. You can read the announcement here: http://tinyurl.com/LynnJ-creactiveproteinstudy For years now we have been learning how depression appears to have a large component of inflammation. Dr Charles Raison at the University of Arizona Medical School has written on this. His 2010 Archives […]
Here’s some interesting research announced a couple of days ago on Science Daily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130307091552.htm#.UTo3CLq4o34.email Synopsis: Children who exercise and are exposed to stress have very little rise in cortisol, whereas sedentary couch potatoes have a rather nasty surge. LYNN SAYS: This is important because we see more and more research about depression being a primary […]
In the early 1970s I got interested in long-distance running. The doctrine then was LSD, or long, slow distance. I got up to running a routine of four miles on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and eight miles on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Some Saturdays I ran more, up to ten or twelve miles. I was […]
