Tag Archives: illness

The Male Mid-life Crisis

I read an article about men having a mid-life crisis at 40 because society has rendered them useless. They didn’t develop male friends or outside interests because everything centered on their wife. If they got a divorce, they lost everything, their house, their children, their wife, their friends, etc. Theoretically, it sounds possible. In actuality, it sounds like a lot of rubbish. There are couples who don’t socialize with anyone but each other and I keep telling my clients to …

Relieving Stress

Stress was not a term we heard about in my day. We all had things we had to deal with but stress was not something people talked about or even acknowledged. We didn’t have the kinds of tests we have today to find out if there was anything physically wrong with a person, and very little was known about emotions being connected to illness. When people got sick and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong, they called it psychosomatic …

Do You Really Want to Know?

I used to think that most people, given the opportunity, would like to know when they were going to die. My reasoning was simple: if you know when you’re going to die, you’d make sure that all your affairs are in order. You would also change your priorities so that you could do all the things you’ve always wanted to do before you die. Now, there is a blood test that scientists in Finland are saying can predict when a …

Getting Old

There comes a time in the life of most people who are going through the process of getting old that we find we can’t do the things we did when we were young. We can either fight it and go into denial or we can adapt to the changes. It’s a slow process that just creeps up on you. Unless you have been ill with a disease unrelated to the aging process, you hardly feel it as it’s happening. It’s …

We’re Living in an “Oh, Well,” Society

For every five children living in America, at least one of them goes to sleep hungry each night. Two of the remaining four, may or may not be getting all their nutritional needs met on a daily basis. Even if those numbers are inflated, as some politicos have suggested, they still represent a growing number of children not getting enough to eat. And we’re not even taking into account the number of senior citizens who have to make the decision …

Retirement is a Nasty Word

There must be a reason why I have always resisted retirement and why I have never allowed my clients to retire. I used to think it was because people need a reason to get up in the morning, to feel as though they are making a difference, to know that they are still capable of earning a living. All that is true, but it’s more than that. People lose their zest for life if they have nothing worthwhile to occupy …