by Diana | Mar 28, 2017 | Parenting
It started as a spanking. She had light brown curls and blue eyes, her tiny body dwarfed by the hospital bed in which she sat, eating ice chips from a paper cup. She was wearing a diaper and and nothing else, still being monitored by the doctors and...
by Diana | Mar 21, 2017 | Good Mental Health
What is a personality disorder? A personality disorder is an inherent pattern of behavior driven by an intense need for attachment, fear of abandonment, and inability to adapt to changing situations and circumstances. It’s characterized by a pervasive negative...
by Diana | Mar 3, 2017 | Good Mental Health
The whole purpose of Good Mental Health is to share what I’ve learned as I’ve traveled the path of finding “it”- good mental health- for myself. Sharing the lessons from a scary childhood and the non-existent self esteem it caused, the body...
by Diana | Feb 15, 2017 | Good Mental Health
Last night, twenty years ago, my husband asked me to marry him. It had been raining for a week; a long, cold, dreary rain as winter struggled to turn into spring. We were in our final semester of college. We had a lot on our minds-like finding jobs and...
by Diana | Feb 9, 2017 | Good Mental Health
Human beings are creatures of habit. We find something that works for us and we tend to do it, over and over, whether it continues yielding good results for us or not. A relationship that was once good but has gone sour? We stay in that relationship, forever waiting...