What Happy Couples Know Daniel Dashnaw What Happy Couples Know Daniel Dashnaw

Riding the emotional rollercoaster: What happens when you say goodbye to antidepressants?

A recent study reveals the social and emotional upheavals that accompany the physical symptoms of withdrawing from these medications.

As anyone who has tried to stop antidepressants knows, the process isn't always smooth sailing.

Anxiety, dizziness, headaches, and nausea are just the tip of the iceberg. The study found that these physical symptoms are often accompanied by social and emotional difficulties.

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The seeds of depression and anxiety could lie in childhood sleep

Research finds that inadequate sleep in childhood significantly increases the risk of developing emotional disorders later in life.

The impact of poor sleep on emotional well-being is profound, altering both negative and positive emotional experiences.

For instance, after just two nights of poor sleep, children cannot derive the same pleasure from positive experiences, and they struggle to recall these positive experiences later on.

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What Happy Couples Know Daniel Dashnaw What Happy Couples Know Daniel Dashnaw

How cognitive abilities are changing across generations

Recent research reveals a fascinating trend: the cognitive abilities of older generations are improving compared to younger ones.

Evidence from 60 studies suggests that older adults today have better cognitive skills than their grandparents did at the same age.

Meanwhile, younger people's cognitive abilities have shown little improvement over recent decades.

Let's dive into why this is happening, what it means for both the young and the old, and the broader implications of these findings.

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Is it ever too late to save a marriage?

Older American couples endure more than six years of misery before seeking help.

It’s like driving your wheels over and over in the same place so often that you’ve worn deep ruts into the marital driveway.

The sooner you enter couples therapy, the better. This is one of the reasons why Millennials enjoy such a delightfully low divorce rate.

They pursue couples therapy at the first sign of trouble. And they do so earlier than any other recorded generation…

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Christian couples counseling in a secular therapy world

Christian couples get a raw deal in secular couples therapy, and Christian couples counseling is often uninformed by science.

Psychotherapy has never been particularly curious about religious faith of any kind.

Most modern therapists do not tend to describe themselves as religious or even particularly spiritual (Bilgrave & Deluty, 2002) and (Smith & Orlinsky, 2004).

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