Overcoming Fears & Phobias
What are you afraid of? A reader asks for help coping with her fear of doctors.
What are you afraid of? A reader asks for help coping with her fear of doctors.
When a family member is mentally ill, you may think they’re the only ones who need help, but you’re probably wrong.
When a past pregnancy loss has you too afraid to try again.
I know that many kids these days struggle from the alphabet soup of disorders. Why aren’t we talking about it more openly?
We mourn the innocent lives lost in the Sandy Hook Elementary School Tragedy. As President Obama said, when you become a parent, the children of the world become your children.
My husband stays home with our son and is falling apart. I don’t know what to do or how to help.
It greatly saddens me that it was just four months ago that I wrote Thinking of Newtown. Here we are again mourning as a nation. Thinking about how to explain and talk about this tragedy with our children.
Teens are likely to turn to their computers and/or peers when they’re stressed out, but could old-school hand-crafting be a better solution?
No one wants their kid to be unkind to others, but when it comes to issues of mental illness, are you teaching your kid kindness or fear?
I’m pregnant, but I’m scared and unhappy all the time. I feel like the parts of me that aren’t sustaining a child are dying. And I don’t know how to fix it.
Depression, like any other medical condition, can impact your ability to parent the way you want to. You and your kids can get through it, I promise.
As teens leave behind ever-widening digital footprints, do their interactions deserve privacy? I don’t think so, and my kids know where I stand.
My mother is an addict. I gave her a chance to be part of my daughter’s life but she keeps breaking the rules and I can’t trust her. Now what?
An expecting mom is having trouble being motivated to do anything and feels like a failure. Amalah gives her the advice and pep talk she needs to hear right now.
Suicide isn’t something that only touches rich celebrities or people we don’t care about. Suicide touches the lives of regular people. Suicide touches the lives of people who are left trying to wrap their brains around why they couldn’t save their loved ones.
A SAHM is on the brink of cracking and needs some immediate advice on how to get some relief and help with her very young and attention-seeking children.
How does a parent navigate the health system to get a mentally ill teen the help they need? It’s hard, but not impossible. Get the support you need and keep going.
A well potty-trained young child has an overactive bladder during the day which the doctor says is anxiety related. However, the problem is getting worse and the parents more concerned.
A mom is starting to climb out of postpartum depression and is having a hard time getting her husband’s support for alone time for self-care.
Today’s query asks if being far away means a concerned aunt can’t help her nephew, and my answer is that she can help more than she thinks.