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Category Archives: Emotions

Working Through A Problem

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

What the **** does that mean really?
What does it mean to “get over” something?
What about “sort it out”?
And as for “deal with it”, are our lives some variation on Blackjack that we just need the right hand to show up?
It’s one of the questions I pondered when I made the “Self Help Me Over” online [...]

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Doctors And Empathy

Saturday, April 12, 2008

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 [...]

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The Strange Behavior Of Anorexia – Part 1

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 [...]

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Do You Have A Healthy Relationship With Your Emotions?

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 [...]

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