It's 12:40 a.m. You have to be up in six hours. You are not doing anything important — one more episode, one more scroll, one more video you won't even remember tomorrow. You're tired. You know you'll regret this. And yet some stubborn part of you refuses to go to bed, because going to bed ...
The first one goes off without warning, somewhere down the block, and before you've had a single conscious thought your heart is slamming and your body wants the floor. Everyone else is saying "ooh." You're scanning for exits. It's the third week of July in Utah, which means weeks of this — ...
It's 4 p.m., it's 99 degrees, and you just snapped at someone over something that didn't deserve it. You couldn't sleep last night because your bedroom never really cooled down. You feel short-tempered, foggy, vaguely awful — and you can't point to a single reason why. So you blame yourself ...
This week Dr. Steve takes time to share answers to some of the questions he gets asked as a professional psychologist: Q. What inspired you to go into psychology and then provide mental health services? A. Even as a teenager, I was always helping other kids, mostly to learn skills in baseball ...
For many, the third Sunday in June is anything but a celebration. Greeting cards and commercials suggest Father's Day is a uniformly happy occasion — a barbecue, a tie, a heartfelt card. For a significant portion of our community, that picture feels foreign or even painful. Some are ...
The summer solstice falls in late June, marking the longest day of the year. In Ogden, the sun rises before 6 a.m. and sets after 9 p.m., with twilight lingering past 10 p.m.. For an animal whose biology evolved to fall asleep when it gets dark, this presents a problem. Many people assume ...
When most people hear “PTSD,” they picture a combat veteran. That image, while real, leaves out the great majority of people who actually meet criteria for the disorder. According to large epidemiological studies, the most common causes of PTSD in the United States are sexual assault, ...
Pride Month, observed each June, began as a commemoration of the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and has become a broader cultural moment for visibility and community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans. Less often discussed is the mental health context: LGBTQ+ individuals, ...
How many times a day do we ask the simple question, “How are you doing?” More often than not, the answer we hear is a socially acceptable “fine,” and we go on with what we were doing. But how often does a child responding to this question actually feel fine? How often does she ...
The last bell rings and summer stretches ahead—three months of possibility that can become three months of screen time, boredom complaints, and parental exhaustion. The sudden loss of structure affects children more than many parents realize, and the freedom that seems like a gift can become ...
