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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
8th Graders at a school in Massachusetts were given a phone number to a Depression Hotline. However, the hotline changed their number, and what the students heard was a recording for a phone sex line.
How are parents to react to this? Is laughter good therapy? Or is this a serious oversight ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
An elderly couple disappeared from a cruise ship, their door locked from the inside with a "do not disturbed" tag hanging from the door. Authorities are trying to determine, is this a suicide, or something else? Some persons are maintaining the couple had simply left the ship at a port. ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
A Christmas tree stands in the entrance of a Boston restaurant. On its branches hang homemade ornaments cut from paper. Written on each ornament isa child's name, age, and the item the child wants most for Christmas: "Janet, 6 years old, Game Boy DS,” "Dustin, 4 years old, Elmo doll.”
Many of us ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Did you know people are finding Surrogate Family on Craigslist this holiday season?
Sounds like a strange question, but that's just what Gloria Goodale, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, was asking last week as she prepared an article about seasonal gatherings.
Her article, "To fill a table, they go ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
In the new bestseller book "Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment," Author and Harvard Professor Tal Ben-Shahar refers to 4 styles for how we tend to lead our lives.
1) Hedonist: Present benefit that causes future detriment.
A hedonist focuses on enjoying the present while ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Henry can’t even recall the last time he felt he was able to truly relax. What he can recall, however, just how difficult it was for him growing up in poverty. All he seems to care about these days is ensuring that he does not have to experience those struggles ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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James woke suddenly in the middle of the night. His heart was pounding in his chest and his sheets were tangled around him. His nightmare had seemed so real that at first he couldn’t figure out where he was. His accident has occurred years ago, but lately he had been ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Nicole got extremely drunk at a party and made a fool of herself in front of her entire high school. She left the party, humiliated, and began thinking about each of the other stupid things she had done lately. When she saw the glow of headlights coming up behind her, ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Lucy just couldn’t get though the pain that began when her youngest child was killed in a car accident. She could barely function with her other children or husband because her suffering was so intense.
Jill and Bobby recent lost everything in a hurricane. Their house was demolished on the only ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Samantha often finds herself pressured to succumb to the sexual advances of men in fear that she will be rejected if she does not. As a result, she has earned a reputation of promiscuity with which she is extremely frustrated and hurt by.
Alice is convinced that her marriage has no ...
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