Mental health

QUICK AND EASY STRESS CONTROL – PART 4

By Ellin Curley on 04/07/2018 • ( 3 )

This is the final part of a four-part series. You can read the others here: Part I, Part 2, Part 3. Stress Everyday stress is a killer. Literally. The greatest damage from stress is caused by excessive triggering of the… Read More ›

QUICK AND EASY STRESS CONTROL – PART 3

By Ellin Curley on 04/05/2018 • ( 8 )

I ‘ve talked about breathing and visualization as relaxation techniques. This week, I’d like to add a third element – movement. Coordinating breath and movement can calm you down, center you, clear your head, and focus your mind, and help the relaxation… Read More ›

QUICK AND EASY STRESS CONTROL – PART 2

By Ellin Curley on 03/27/2018 • ( 8 )

Last week, I talked about using controlled breathing to turn off the “Fight or Flight Response” in your body and minimize the harmful effects of stress on your body. You can build on that to reduce stress even more. MIND AND BODY… Read More ›

QUICK AND EASY STRESS CONTROL – PART 1

By Ellin Curley on 03/24/2018

I was a Yoga teacher for eight years. My training taught me a lot about the interrelationship between the mind and the body, on a physiological, scientifically explainable level. Using that knowledge, I compiled some quick and easy stress control… Read More ›

AHEAD OF HIS TIMES – ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 03/21/2018 • ( 8 )

Most of us believe that our current beliefs have been our beliefs forever. Of course we know that germs cause disease and that the earth is round. But people didn’t always know these concepts as “facts”. We once thought the earth was flat… Read More ›

FREUD AND MY FATHER, PART 1 – ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 03/19/2018 • ( 14 )

(All quotes are from my father’s book, “My Analysis With Freud, Reminiscences”, by A. Kardiner, M.D.) My father’s first contact with Sigmund Freud was a letter he received in 1921 accepting him as a student of Freud’s in Vienna. My… Read More ›

POLITICAL DEMENTIA

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/15/2018 • ( 41 )

I have to go to the hospital today for a brain scan. Presumably they will discover I have some. Brains, that is. Meanwhile, I will again be missing from today’s action. Life keeps getting in the way of blogging. I… Read More ›

LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 03/05/2018 • ( 8 )

Carrie Fisher was Bi-polar. To her credit, she talked about her condition openly and honestly. She brought attention to the disorder and tried to reduce the stigma associated with this, as well as other, mental illnesses. It’s sad that we… Read More ›

PARENTAL ANIMAL PHOBIAS – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 01/31/2018 • ( 4 )

My father was afraid of horses, so of course I had to learn how to ride. I was terrified of snakes, so my son has had a lifelong fascination with reptiles. Not surprising. My father witnessed someone being kicked by… Read More ›

IT’S EXPONENTIAL, DR. WATSON – BY TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 01/21/2018 • ( 15 )

I’m not the first person to see this, but have any of you noticed that 2018 seems like 2017 on steroids? January is barely half over, and it seems like over a half-year has gone by. In 2017, we experienced… Read More ›

YOU CAN’T COMPETE WITH CRAZY – BY TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 12/16/2017 • ( 27 )

The world we live in today is crazy. Some might argue it’s always been crazy. I can’t disagree. It has. But we are in a world of crazy that is … wait for it … unprecedented. Hell, we have been… Read More ›

UNHINGED, UNFIT, AND UNBELIEVABLE – BY TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 12/04/2017 • ( 15 )

I’ve learned to write thoughts down when I have them these days. Mostly because I’ll forget those thoughts ten seconds after I have them. Unless I’m really stoned. Then I forget them about three and half seconds after I have… Read More ›

THE HAIRDRESSER MYSTIQUE – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 11/30/2017 • ( 3 )

I don’t go to the hairdresser often. Just once every couple of months to get my hair cut and colored and thus keep myself as a perpetual brunette. I look forward to those trips. I love the feeling of having… Read More ›

THINGS WORTH FIGHTING FOR – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 11/25/2017 • ( 9 )

My first marriage was not what you would call good. My ex, Larry, was bipolar. He would have periods of ‘normalcy’ followed by periods of worse and worse paranoia, hair-trigger anger, irrationality plus erratic and hostile behavior. In this state,… Read More ›

I SENT MY HUSBAND AND MY MOM TO COUPLES’ COUNSELING – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 11/14/2017 • ( 14 )

I swear to God, I actually made my first husband, Larry, go with my mom to couples’ counseling. They were driving me crazy. They fought with each other. They each talked to me against the other. They both tried to… Read More ›

WE HAVE TO GET AHEAD OF THIS GUY. NO REALLY — WE DO! BY TOM CURLEY

By tomcurley1 on 11/13/2017 • ( 25 )

This post was originally written months ago. It should have been topical and no longer relevant. Instead, it’s even more relevant. In almost all TV cop shows and movies, the bad guy, usually a mad psychotic, a mad genius or… Read More ›