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Is "Having It All" Really Just a Myth?
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1536803/is_having_i...
Some women "have it all," but would like to give some of it back. (resubmitted -- switched from Helium to Associated Content)
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Submitted by authorette
39 months, 1 week, 10 hours agoTags: having it all, stress, women's liberation, children
Coping With Depression
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http://www.helium.com/items/1343906-depression-willpower-men...
There are two main types of depression:
1. Situational Depression; and
2. Clinical Depression.
Situational depression is the kind that develops after something bad happens, say the death of a loved one or the loss of a job. Of course you're depressed! Who wouldn't be? Situational depression is short term and usually lasts from two weeks to three months. Sometimes it just goes away on its own, and other times counseling is needed.
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Finding Mr. Right After 50
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http://www.helium.com/items/1342483-dating-over-50-online-da...
I met my husband and love my life five years ago through online dating. When * Sam and I first connected, I was a "basket case," recently separated and divorcing my husband of 21 years. I had no idea how to date in the new millennium or how to date, period!
In the beginning, I joined several dating web sites and began going on dates with different divorced men my age. (I had a lot of Starbucks' coffees and a lot of dinners.) I found that some of the men had not been entirely honest on their profiles and others were not my type at all. (To be honest, I had "bent the truth" somewhat on my profile also.) There were men who seemed to only be interested in finding sex, and some were newly divorced and just wanted to marry any warm-blooded, available woman. I needed more than that if I was ever going to get serious about a man ever again.
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Blended Families
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http://www.helium.com/items/1340787-blended-family-step-brot...
Every year on the Sunday before Christmas we get together at my mom's house for what we call our "Dysfunctional Family Christmas."
Are we a "blended" family?
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Stressed For Success: The Working Mother
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http://www.helium.com/items/1337858-working-mothers-difficul...
My first child was born in 1982, when the "Mommy Wars" were at full throttle, and I struggled to figure out where I fit in. "Having it all" was our mantra, but the reality was that if you DID have it all, you wanted to give some of it back! That is, unless you were the CEO of Xerox Corporation and could afford to hire a nanny, a chauffer, a nurse, a housekeeper, a cook, a tutor, and a crisis counselor to do what we ordinary working mothers were called upon to do every day.
Those were The Dark Ages for secretaries, sales clerks, waitresses, bank tellers, mail carriers and nurses' aides; in other words, for the greatest percentage of working mothers. For us, the "glass ceiling" was beyond our range of vision.
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Submitted by authorette
40 months, 4 days, 5 hours agoTags: stress, working mothers, daycare, kids, children, jobs
Female Chauvanist Pigs
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http://www.helium.com/items/1335508-womens-liberation-femini...
I graduated from high school in 1970, when the only requirement for graduation was a beating pulse. Everyone graduated from high school. You didn't even have to know how to read!
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Submitted by authorette
40 months, 5 days, 20 hours agoTags: women's liberation, equality, feminism, women's movement
Battling With Alcoholism
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http://www.helium.com/items/1296858-alcohol-recovery-alcohol...
Alcoholism starts with loss of control. The person's behavior violates his values, causing remorse, which then triggers denial. Because of denial, there is unresolved emotional pain. This sequence occurs many, many times and ultimately results in chronic emotional pain. The alcoholic must drink to feel normal.
It would seem, then, that in recovery from alcoholism, there is more to address than just the drinking.
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Submitted by authorette
40 months, 1 week, 2 hours agoTags: alcoholism, drinking, battling alcoholism
What Is Co-Dependence?
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http://www.helium.com/items/1329509-co-dependency-co-depende...
Co-dependence is a learned behavior, rooted in shame, where the needs of others are chronically put before our own. The co-dependent lets others define who he is and sacrifices his own integrity to insure the emotional wellbeing of another. Co-dependents are caretakers and rescuers, controlling their outside world to obtain inner peace.
"Co-dependence" is just a new name for an old game. Professionals had long suspected that something peculiar happened to people who were closely involved with chemically dependent people. A physical, mental, emotional and spiritual condition similar to alcoholism seemed to appear in many non-alcoholic or non-chemically dependent people who were close to an alcoholic. Later it was learned that co-dependency was triggered through relationships with people who have serious illnesses, behavior problems, or destructive compulsive disorders. So even though alcoholism in the family helps create co-dependency, many other circumstances produce it also.
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Submitted by authorette
40 months, 1 week, 2 hours agoTags: co-dependence, codependence, enabling, alcoholic, addiction
How to Deal With Grief and Loss
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http://www.helium.com/items/1330922-grief-loss-moving-on
Psychologists have learned that most people experience similar thoughts and emotions when confronted with loss. These have been named the Stages of Grief. Whether a grieving person proceeds through these stages in a set order or not, the different stages help us to work through our loss in a way that will help us to accept it and heal.
But we can't tuck messy emotions into neat little packages. The Stages of Grief are responses to loss that many people have. There is not a typical response to loss, as there is no typical loss. Our grieving is as individual as our lives.
If you are trying to cope with a loss, these stages will help you to understand that, though painful and often confusing, what you are feeling is normal. When someone or something is wrested away from us forever, we suffer an acute emotional wound. Mentally, we must adjust to this trauma in stages because we cannot accommodate that much pain all at once. And so the process begins.
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Submitted by authorette
40 months, 1 week, 2 hours agoTags: grief, loss, foreclosure, death, Unemployment, divorce | |
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