Therese Borchard

I believed, along with all the other adults in my life, that my melancholy and sensitivity were part of my "special" make-up, that they were gifts to celebrate, not neuroses to treat.

Fears are like annoying relatives. You can't avoid them forever, and ignoring them won't make them go away.

You hear about peer pressure when you are in the sixth grade, but no one talks about it once you've graduated from college, have a job, and especially...

Resilience. That's what I'm after. To be able to find my balance after hitting a pot hole. To wake up with hope after enduring a series of frustrat...

As a rule of thumb, any extreme is unhealthy, but rarely are we made aware of the "cons" of healthy habits, instead led to think any good thing is better if done as often as possible.

Sometimes when we tell ourselves statements that we don't really believe ("I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me"), it can decrease the little self-esteem we had to begin with.

Even as I love the autumn season, it is full of anxiety for me...Yesterday my therapist and I talked about a few coping exercises to keep my anxiety from disabling me this time of year.

I chase the adrenaline rush, the dopamine high, that is akin to the buzz I get from smoking an entire cigarette in three puffs after staying away from lung rockets for a year or more.

Larry Drain of the Hopeworks Community blog wrote an excellent post on three things we can do about our moods: prevention, coping, learning. He writes...

One of my depression busters is to "become the expert." This means, as I'm peeing my pants about where Eric and I are going to get our next paych...

I'm easily overwhelmed. When my kids' exuberant screams reach a decibel level my ears can't tolerate, when Chuck E., the life-size "rat" at the pizza ...

In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.:I have a dream that one day I won't hold my breath every time I tell a person that I suffer from bipolar dis...