Thursday, February 21, 2008
Medicine can be so arrogant sometimes.
How can doctors “save people’s lives” when people just die later of something else.
The latest cancer treatment announces it has reduced the mortality by half. Really. Please put the time-frame back in and say something like, “within the first 5 years after treatment.”
Human life is after all, as the saying [...]
Last year in the city where I live they outlawed smoking indoors in public places.
Actually they did this quite a while back, but they had made an exception for hotels, pubs and bars. Now they’ve extended it to these places too. You have to have an outdoors area now if you want to have a [...]
When people come to me and complain about headaches, they usually are quick to suspect their headaches are caused by stress or some psychological worry.
After all if they thought their headaches were caused by something physical, that a physiotherapist could fix for example, they wouldn’t be seeing a psychological self help guy in the first [...]
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Forget New Year’s Resolutions. Forget goal setting.
Start taking self help action. It can be massive action, small steps, or incremental change to a new direction.
Almost everything you read on this site includes something immediately actionable. But here are the top 15 actions so far…
1. If you are having a horrible time this holiday [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2007
When I first started my counseling practice I had all these people coming to me complaining about not having willpower.
If only they had willpower they would tell me, they would be able to
- lose weight / get fit
- stop smoking / drinking / gambling / womanizing
- control their domestic violence / drug problem / children [...]
Sunday, November 18, 2007
One of the reasons I wanted this web-site to be about self help rather than psychiatry, psychology or therapy, is because much of what people actually have as problems and limitations is not covered in the textbooks.
This is slowly changing however.
Psychiatry is finding labels for more and more, whether by extending current labels, such as [...]
Saturday, October 27, 2007
I’ve just woken up an hour later.
Running an international website is such fun. In Australia we have just had our Daylight Saving Time change. Those of you in the European Union are doing/have done the same. And those of you in the US will wait another week.
So if you are confused about how remember how [...]
A week ago I posted a video of a 47-year old university lecturer and his last speech.
He is dying of pancreatic cancer.
If you haven’t watched it then check it out here:
The Importance of Dying – Part 1
The full version is 1 hour 44 mins, but the 9 minute interview is much more pithy.
Question:
How do you [...]
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Have you ever wondered what you would do if you had only months or weeks to live?
For a 47-year-old professor this is a reality.
You can get the short interview here from Good Morning America.
I’d suggest you take a while today and follow along this journey…
-Dr Martin RussellRead The Importance of Dying – Part 2 here…