Tag: mental-health
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RELATIONSHIPS – The funny side
A new bride was a bit embarrassed to be known as a honeymooner. So when she and her husband pulled up to the hotel, she asked him if there was any way that they could make it appear that they had been married a long time. The husband was quick to respond, “Sure. You carry…
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RELATIONSHIPS – Tainted Love
At the age of eight, Kristen was performing in her elementary annual school’s play. A filming agent who happened to be there by chance stood spellbound. It was the beginning of her career as an American actress with performances amongst the most popular in The Twilight Saga, Panic Room and The Runaways. But apart from…
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COPING – The Art of Coping
Vera Nazarian, an American professional writer of Armenian- Russian origin had no easy life. At the tender age of eight, at the height of the Cold War, she fled from the former Soviet Union as a refugee with her parents with nothing else but a couple of suitcases. In one of her writings from ‘The…
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ANXIETY – The Pounding Heart
Kim was withdrawn as a child. Her worst fear was reading aloud in class, to the point that teachers believed she was having a nervous breakdown. Even years later, when Kim took the podium to accept her Oscar for ‘LA Confidential’ she couldn’t find words to speak, even though she had practiced for days. We…
