I like my self help advice along the lines of the KISS principle – Keep It Short & Sweet.
Here is some legal self help advice that is about as KISS as it can get.
If you are ever questioned by police or authorized officials then this may save your bacon.
I know these videos are for US [...]
One of the biggest aspects of self-help is most certainly safety and it’s opposite, danger.
A huge chunk of psychiatry is taken up with the manifestations of this issue – anxiety, phobias, worry, self-confidence issues, paranoias, anger, violence.
A patient of mine gave me the trememdous gift of introducing me to a man who specializes in helping [...]
Have you heard the joke?
When is the time to get empathy from a doctor?
Before they’ve gone to medical school.
Boom. Boom.
Well actually it’s not a joke at all. It’s a researched fact, and not a very funny fact either.
Evidence has been building that shows a steady decline in empathy in doctors as they go through their [...]
I ended Part 1 of this series by asking when someone might WANT to have anorexia.
When might you actually want to be repulsed by the thought of eating food?
Put another way, could anorexia ever be “useful”?
Well it is a standard question that I have asked of every so-called problem that I have been told about [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008
I really appreciate all the comments I get on this blog. I read them all, and they are often worth your time reading as well.
However some of them are worth putting up as an entire post. Thanks to teqjack for pointing me to a post on the website of ‘World’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist’
that had [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
In my therapy work I have pretty much given up using the word forgiveness.
Not because it is a bad idea – heck no. Forgiveness is a key self help skill for being an effective human being.
It’s just that the people who most need to use forgiveness in their lives, have also been the ones who [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
Survey after survey of doctors says that they don’t think that gifts influence their behavior.
Study after study says they are totally wrong.
The big pharmaceutical companies spend millions upon billions on advertising and promoting to doctors and one of the biggest ways they do so is by using gifts of all types.
Sometimes it’s pens, sometimes it’s [...]
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The problem will alot of the self help literature is that much of it is unproven guesswork.
That’s why I thirst for real data and evidence on self help topics.
One area of big importance to self help is apologizing. However I have never found anything in my medical or psychiatry or psychology background that said anything [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
“I know what I SHOULD do, but I don’t!”
Listening to people’s words is really fascinating.
If you ever hear “I should…”, then here is the conclusion you can make – they won’t.
“Should” automatically implies that they aren’t going to do it. If they were going to do it they would use some other phrase like “I [...]