4 Ways To Help Your Man Fight Depression [EXPERT]

Being present with him through the dark times can make your relationship stronger.

Depression isn't only hard for him — mood disturbances also have a big impact on your relationship. But how do you bring up the subject? As the saying goes, "People don't care what you know until they know that you care." So what can you do to help?

How Do I Love Me? 52 Ways To Treat Yourself Well [EXPERT]

Don't you deserve a little love?

The truth is you deserve to be happy, and loving yourself is a good place to start. Here are 52 ways to love the hell out of yourself right now!

Daily Mood Lifters - 5 Tips To Up Your Happiness Factor [EXPERT]

Strategies to Keep Your Spirits High

We all have our "To-do" lists. How much of your list includes ways to keep your spirit up? Often, the demands of work, family and household upkeep means our needs get shifted to the backburner. When this happens, frustration builds and we can spiral into mental abyss. But, by incorporating little things into your routine, you can increase your happiness factor. So, make "YOU" a priority and use the tips below to improve your overall sense of happiness and wellbeing.

Women and Sex Addiction

How do you know if you are a healthy sexual woman or a love or sex addict? Where is the line?

Is there a line one crosses from healthy sexuality to sex addiction? If there is, where is the line. These questions are being asked by many people as more celebrities, elected officials, and religious leaders have claimed they are addicted to sex, and are seeking treatment. Is sex addiction just a excuse for the rich and famous to hide behind, or is there something to it?

Kids & Sexting: What Parents Need To Know [EXPERT]

... plus, five essential questions to ask your kids.

Recently, a group of about 13 children at a high school in Dallas Fort Worth Texas were arrested in a sexting scandal. The officers involved said that in Texas, teenagers are charged with a misdemeanor for sexting. It is a much more serious issue in other states that can result in the youth being charged with a felony crime. Kids are then labeled sex offenders for an impulsive act that is common in many schools.

Can Pornography Cause Mental Illness? [EXPERT]

A British clinic reveals pornography is on the rise.

I can just see it coming. Imagine sitting home watching television one day in the near future. In a commercial, you see a child go into his bedroom, lock the door, turn on his computer, and unbutton his pants. Just then, the camera cuts away to reveal a bunch of facts and figures telling us why pornography is now the latest life-crippling disease.

10 Ways To Improve Your Mental Health [EXPERT]

InsideOut Empowerment can help improve your well-being.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We will go to the doctor for a physical checkup, but how many of us engage in a mental health checkup? The goals of my process, InsideOut Empowerment, provide us with ten things we can do to improve our well-being and increase our happiness.

Dear Dr Romance: I Need a Good Self-Help Book

Dear Dr. Romance: I congratulate you for your many helpful articles on the Internet. I would like to have your advice. I am male and in the last 25 years I had a therapy experience which lasted 3 1/2 years and left me with unresolved issues; shorter therapy experiences with different therapists, which I ended, because it seemed to be prolonged pointless therapy, for the sake of therapy. I am left with frustration from the futility of these experiences.

make a choice — How one study can have us taking a second look at our choices.

Abortion & Depression: The Coleman Connection [EXPERT]

It's important to "follow your gut" when it comes to making important decisions.

As the political and psychological war over abortion wages on, learning how to "own" all of our choices as women could not be more vital to ensuring our long term health and peace of mind. In 2009 Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University in Ohio released a controversial study linking abortion and mental health issues.

Is Mental Illness The New Normal? [EXPERT]

Is it normal teen development or mental illness - hope for parents of teens.

About one in five teenagers has a diagnosable mental health issue. Yet by the age of 25, those number drop dramatically. Have we gone too far in labeling normal teenage attitudes and behaviors as mental illness? Has our society come to accept depression, attention deficit disorder, bipolar disorder and even substance abuse among teens as normal?

Help! I Think My Teen is Mentally Ill!

Is it normal teen development, or is it mental illness? Here's HOPE!

Teenagers are amazing. They’re tough, they’re needy. They laugh at their friends’ awful jokes, then look at you like you’re from some other planet. They can’t sleep or sleep too much. They’re far more sensitive than they let on, but won’t ever admit it. They take risks with no thought for consequences, insist that pizza is a major food group, take “stands” on issues that you don’t think are important, and expect mom to be taxi-therapist-cheerleader-nurse while never giving you enough information.