by Mark Banschick, MD | Nov 12, 2012 | Bad Habits, Balance, Yourself |
Can you forgive? It is not easy. Anyway, you may not want to. It’s simpler to hate. Human beings often resist forgiving. Maybe it’s an evolutionary function, like protecting yourself against your enemies. After all, in ancient times, you rarely got a second...
by Mark Banschick, MD | Oct 17, 2012 | Bad Habits, Yourself |
A Quarter Century: Your twenties is the beginning of adulthood, an independent life that belongs to no one else but you. It’s a time when you construct a future; a platform of sorts that will benefit you later down the road. You get a job, learn new skills and try to...
by Mark Banschick, MD | Sep 12, 2012 | Bad Habits, Children Coping, Family, How to Talk to Your Kids, Kids |
Preface: In a recent piece, Our Avoidant Boys, a reader started a conversation about marijuana use as a self medication. He pointed out that two great scientists, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman allegedly used weed to control mild mania and depression. Apparently both...
by Mark Banschick, MD | Aug 28, 2012 | Bad Habits, Balance, Control, Denial, Money, Taking Charge, Values, Yourself |
This is the third part of our series on a psychology of greed, and how stealing can become a habit, even among “nice” people. In Part One, we talked about financial deceit and how it appears almost commonplace among some of the biggest players in the world of money....
by Mark Banschick, MD | Aug 14, 2012 | Bad Habits, Balance, Communication, Family, Happiness, marriage, Rejection, Relationships, Treatment, Values, Yourself |
The last two posts on Psychology Today have been part of a series on clingy intimacy, centering on those who fall in love with people with narcissistic tendencies. This often works out poorly for the more dependent party. Yet, what if your partner is completely normal...
by Mark Banschick, MD | Aug 14, 2012 | Bad Habits, Balance, Control, Denial, Money, Taking Charge, Values, Yourself |
Money is very powerful and can affect us all. Like sex or hunger, the appetite for money can get us to do things we may later regret. This is true for you and me; it is also true (and maybe more so) for those in the banking and finance industries. Do you notice how...
