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 […]
One of the most recurring health wisdoms is that you need to drink 8 glasses of water daily.
Also known as the 8×8 (8 glasses of 8 ounces each) or 2 Litres of water daily.
I seems to make sense to so many people, including bottled water sellers, that for many people it is pure common sense.
From […]
This entire blog is about self help. Weight loss is a key self help area where people often try, and about 80-95% of the time they fail.
But THEY don’t fail. In my opinion the METHODS they are using for weight loss are the failure. They don’t help for most people!
In typing this I am literally […]
This is the first full book review I have ever done on this blog. I am delighted that it is a review for this book, because “I Can Make You Thin” makes an historic contribution to weight loss and being naturally thin, and also to the entire field of self-help.
For almost 2 years now I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was talking with someone about the need to get good research in a particular area of interest to him, and he dismissed me outright.
“Not only is research a waste of time,” he said, “I could get research done and published that proved whatever I wanted it to.”
“Then I’d get another study published and so […]
My father is an anesthetist, which means he puts people to sleep for their surgical operations.
We have been using anesthetics for surgery, childbirth etc since ether was recognized for this purpose back in the mid 1800’s. There are now about a dozen main general anesthetic agents, Nitrous oxide ie Laughing gas, Halothane, various forms of […]