Happy Saturday, everyone! We here at Counseling Services of Greater Boston like to keep up on events in our community, and we want to let you know about the 2015 Festival Italia that will take place on Saturday, August 22nd! Starting at 2pm, local merchants will be on Main Street selling various goods, and music, dance and an auto show will provide entertainment for all. Come on down and have some fun!
Hope you all are having a great week. The following clip was given to us by a follower on our Facebook – what a great find it was! Check out My Depression: The Up and Down of It, an animated documentary on HBO. The first clip, The Pill Song, is a witty explanation of how anti-depressants work with our brain chemistry.
The second, Suicide Mobile, illustrates how ending your life actually can seem like an attractive choice to those suffering with depression.
Let us know what you think!
Read this interesting article on narcissism from Psychology Today!
Check out this great TED talk from one of our personal faves, Glennon Doyle Melton. Glennon is a recovering alcoholic and bulimic, and has her own blog called Momastery. She’s also written Carry On, Warrior, and, in her words, is a “truth teller and hope spreader”. In this clip, Glennon speaks to the “capes” we all wear in an effort to hide our true selves.
And don’t forget to stop by our table at the forum on suicide prevention on May 20th! Counseling Services of Greater Boston will be attending this community event hosted by Wakefield Public Schools and the Massachusetts Northeast Region Suicide Prevention Coalition. We may even have some artistic activities for all to enjoy. See you there!
Hope you enjoy Mother’s Day weekend, all!
Happy Spring, everyone. We hope you get a chance to be out and about enjoying the almost 80 degree temps that will arrive on Monday! And for those who are mothers – an early Happy Mother’s Day to you. In honor of this neverending, rewarding, exhausting job, we are posting a wonderful article about staying mindful when your child is ill.
Dr. Sue Orsillo is the co-author of The Mindful Way Through Anxiety. In this book and interview she provides a way for moms to navigate the dark waters of anxiety when our children are ill.
Take a moment to watch this: Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor on psychiatry and mental health expert, provides her experience with bipolar disorder and how it affected her life.
What are your thoughts on this? If you’ve experienced bipolar disorder, were your symptoms similar or different? We’d love to hear from you.
Happy Marathon weekend to all in the Boston area. We hope you are enjoying the beautiful, long-awaited spring weather and have had some time to take care of you!
On May 20th, Counseling Services of Greater Boston will be attending a community forum on suicide prevention, hosted by Wakefield Public Schools and the Massachusetts Northeast Region Suicide Prevention Coalition. The goal of this forum is to provide education to students and families about suicide and mental health, and to connect them to service providers in the area. Counseling Services of Greater Boston will have a table with information – please stop by and say hello!
Also, if you have any questions about the event please contact Christina White (christina.white@wpsk12.org) or Jason Levene (jason.levene@wpsk12.org) at Wakefield High School.
And please never hesitate to contact us at (781) 328-1904.
Take a moment out of your (hopefully) lazy Friday to read this Psychology Today article, which focuses on research done on the ratio between your index finger and ring finger. That’s right folks, it seems certain personality and sexuality traits are linked to certain ratios.
What Do Your Fingers Tell About Your Hormones, Personality, and Sexuality?
