It’s against my nature to join anything, as Groucho Marks said … Despite this attitude and grave reservations, I recently join an on-line community called The Psychology Network and I had a reason for doing so that was related to this blog. I wanted to post a question to my esteemed colleagues around the world….
Category: Mental health
What happens when couples retire together
This blog was first published on the Fighting Fifty website. My wife and I retired at the same time. This was partly planned and partly accidental. I was getting bored and she was getting frustrated. Her job was changing in a way she didn’t like and my job wasn’t changing and I didn’t like that….
Self Esteem in Retirement and Solutions Focused Therapy
I want to continue this series of blogs on the topic of self-esteem and the retired person by looking at a number of the psychological theories (others will follow this one) which have some relevance to the area. I’m going to begin by examining the contribution of a psychological paradigm named Solutions Focused Therapy (SFT)…
Self Esteem : Water, water everywhere and Chinese cooking
One way to lower your self-esteem is to have a list, actual or mental, of things you really should do but you aren’t doing them. One way to raise self-esteem is to produce your list in written form and work through it. Simple enough. You may be one of those relatively rare people whose self-esteem…
Self Esteem : Would it kill you to say something nice?
Something happened to me over Christmas and it has taken me until now to write about it. I think it fits into the general topic of self esteem. Christmas, as we all know, is a time for meeting up with friends you haven’t seen for a while. Yes, humbug, but it’s got to be done,…
Mental Health : ADHD
Why am I writing about ADHD on what purports to be a retirement blog? Well, the answer is because I can and because I’ve rather enjoyed saying the things I’m about to say. Also I have an ex-colleague who, I believe, is saying good things about the area and I want to support him. The…
Retirement and Depression : How to respond
In writing about retirement in The Summerhouse Years.com I had always intended that this blog should be a combination of the amusant and the serieux, not to mention the pretentious. You know the way life is. This blog is intended as a serious one. My hope is that it may be helpful. It is about…