When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.