This self help website attracts readers worldwide, from the US, Canada, Australia and UK, along with about 30 other countries so far. This is the main value of this site.
A few of my readers come from Adelaide, South Australia, where I have my solo counselling practice.
There are some things I can offer locally that I [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
With the recent studies showing antidepressants to be far less effective than previously reported, this leaves a big gap in the field.
What can take the place of antidepressants?
What solutions are already out there for depression?
What books, courses, websites, resources of any type are there for “curing” people who have been given the label “Depression”?
I’d like [...]
The commotion over the study that said anti-depressants are a waste of time for all but the most severely depressed people, has continued to escalate.
It hit the middle editorial pages of my local city’s newspaper, and that means the story is big!
Much of the criticism that I have read of this study has been badly [...]
Thursday, February 14, 2008
A man came to me for hypnotherapy because he was vomiting. Not just any vomiting either. He had had to be hospitalized and rehydrated.
His doctor’s couldn’t find a cause, so they did what doctor’s do when they can’t explain something. They suspect it’s in your head, give it an impressive label like psychogenic hyperemesis, and [...]
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Many years ago now I went to a meeting of a local self-help group for people with eating disorders.
They didn’t usually allow outsiders to come along but because I am a medical doctor they were willing to make an exception. It seems that medical doctors don’t often ask to go along to self-help groups. At [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2008
When people come to me with problems often they think of their problems as “irrational”.
The really interesting part is that their emotional response is always the bit that is irrational.
It doesn’t enter their minds that perhaps the most irrational part of what is going on is that they are they are believing their logical thinking.
Human [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
When I was going through medical school it was a really exciting time in psychiatry.
Just as I began in medical school the new generation of anti-depressants arrived. Most famous of all was Prozac, which is still one of the most prescribed anti-depressants in the world.
Then the 1990s was called by US Presidential decree the “Decade [...]
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 [...]