by Dr. Adams | How To Understand Yourself
We all have encountered, or even are ourselves, low copers, people who do not deal well with the slightest adversity. Such people figuratively cannot find their way out of a cardboard box. They whine loudly over having a hang nail. With actual and substantial... 
by Dr. Adams | How To Understand Yourself
We all feel “stressed out” at times. What does this mean? What does it reveal about us? Stress arises from something in our lives that we believe we are unable to handle or are not handling well. It could mean that too many things are coming our way and that we feel... 
by Dr. Adams | How To Understand Yourself
The songwriter Paul Simon in 1973 sang, “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.” The same object or event means different things to different people at different times and under different circumstances. We know many combatants return from warfare experiences with... by Dr. Adams | Emotional Illness
When people have mismatches in their level of support in their personal close relationships they suffer emotional distress and illness. By a mismatch I mean people who give more emotional support than they receive in return. Or, a mismatch can take place when a person... 
by Dr. Adams | Children/Child Rearing
At times, being a parent can be such a stressful, agonizing job, that we lose all perspective as to what we want to accomplish. What are the goals of childrearing? For one goal we want to create competent adults out of our children. By competent I mean adults who can...
