Psychotherapy Expertise – Lori Brown LCSW Blog

Psychotherapy and Counseling, Pleasanton California

Depression Myths Smackdown

I know that everyone and their cousins have written about depression, and you’ll find nothing terribly new here.  And yet myths still abound about this systemic illness affecting both body and soul.  These thoughts and tidbits of information are off the cuff – in the spirit of blogging – and based on my working knowledge [...]

Our Tiune Brains or the Age-old disconnect between Our Hearts and Minds

I am by no means an expert or even well-versed in neuro-anything. So, please take what I am saying here with a major nugget of salt.
My understanding is that, extremely broadly speaking, we have three parts to our brains, each layered over the other. As we as organisms evolved from dinosaurs (reptiles) to [...]

Welcome to my mental health blog

Welcome to my every-now-and-again blog. My blog will be dedicated to informal, off-the-cuff musings about mental health issues. Since I’ve never written a blog of any kind, I can make no promises about what it will be and will become.
I just read in an online news bulletin that women who are lonely have [...]