Posts in “resilience”
Take Ten: Social Judgment and Resilience
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
About four percent of the US population is gay. This means, roughly 40,000 offspring of one million moms—and dads—will be gay. There was a lot of commotion last week about role models and messages to our kids with the decision to select Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson of JCPenney’s. Conservative group OneMillionMoms didn’t seem to like this decision at all.
Liking or disliking our fellow citizens’ lifestyle choices in their private lives or whether or not gays are born this way is beside the point. The reality is that gay couples still face social judgment and become resilient to survive and thrive as they continue to seek equal rights as couples and as parents.
Join me in this week’s interview with successful entrepreneurs Mayda Perez and Simone Mayer as they share their lifestory as a couple and as parents.
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Take Six: On Life, Death, and Healthcare
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Different Lives, Different Cultures, Different Experiences
Catherine and John Graves’s story describes the challenges of being the sole-caregiver to a spouse with a life-threatening disease: a glioblastoma, or brain tumor. This article describes how she struggled with his personality changes as the frontal lobe location of the tumor affected Graves’ affect, cognition, and judgment. Catherine describes becoming anxious, depressed, and with post-traumatic stress after his death. Caregiver burnout is not unusual in these cases. Instead of post-traumatic stress, this is a constant stress situation that tends to be under-recognized and under-treated.
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