Check out two good articles on Online Psychology Degrees: 10 Common Myths about Clinical Depression and Six Biggest Myths about Psychology that Everyone Believes. Even though I've been writing about mental health for fourteen years, I learned a few things.

Posted: Nov 10, 2009

tags: depression, psychology

Look around you. On the train platform, at the bus stop, in the car pool lane: these days someone there is probably faking it, maintaining a job routine without having a job to go to.

The Wall Street type in suspenders, with his bulging briefcase; the woman in pearls, thumbing her BlackBerry; the builder in his work boots and tool belt — they could all be headed for the same coffee shop, or bar, for the day.

“I have a new client, a laid-off lawyer, who’s commuting in every day — to his Starbucks,” said Robert C. Chope, a professor of counseling at San Francisco State University and president of the employment division of the American Counseling Association. “He gets dressed up, meets with colleagues, networks; he calls it his Western White House. I have encouraged him to keep his routine.”

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Posted: Apr 08, 2009

tags: behavior, psychology