In the San Ramon-Danville area, the academic pressure has been building and children and teens are feeling this weight. They feel like they need to be the best, get straight As, and always be the top of the class. Being average at anything is considered failure and passing a class with a...
We’ve all likely heard the term “perfectionist” thrown around before, maybe we’ve labeled someone or ourselves this term, or someone has used it about us. Not all perfectionism is bad, we need people to try to get as close to perfect with many things, like doctors...
Young men seem to be under significant amounts of stress and the factors that contribute to this may be more harmful than we recognize. In Western culture young men are expected to achieve many milestones to reach so called "manhood", such as getting a degree, getting a...