Among the things that people are never trained for is how to be a bystander. Whether we are a bystander at the scene of an accident or we are supporting a friend or relative who is dealing with an injury or illness or death of a loved one or we are navigating the process of…
Social Media Is Not A Substitute For Socializing
If I were to become King of the World, or at least the social media world, the first thing that I would decree is that the administrators of all the social media platform get together and forever banish the word, FRIEND, and come up with a better term to describe those with whom you connect…
“I Can’t Think Of Anything To Say”
Human beings are social animals. Research has demonstrated the importance of building and maintaining a social network as being one of the most important indexes of mental health. It is also protective against negative aspects of the aging process. But social comfort is not evenly distributed. Social role modeling from parents and older siblings, growing…