Minds

Did you know that only about 11 percent of the people exposed to trauma develop PTSD? You can heal from emotional trauma.

We’ve normalized divorce nastiness. Anger and conflict have become the default response to going through a divorce. It's not a good thing.

The most valuable thing though, being a therapist with mental illness, is that I get it. I know how desperate you feel to change your life.

Depression lingers like an unwelcome ghost trailing behind me. And most days, I accept that. I acknowledge that. And, I’m okay. What if one day I’m not?

I’ll admit it; I, Jennifer Sara Glantz, have ghosted my fair share of guys in New York City. Nothing made me feel as bad as when I ghosted my therapist.

We have a pandemic preoccupation with productivity we are obsessed with productivity. We reward “hard work” with money and praise and admiration and envy.

Alcohol was the antidepressant I felt I always wanted. There was no need to step back, breathe, count to ten, or do any other self-soothing techniques.

While money does not prevent depression, it does facilitate the potential for happiness, or at the very least more management of unhappiness.