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 […]
“There is sound evidence that people who are injured and seek compensation tend to have worse outcomes than people with the same injury who remain outside of compensation settings.”
This is front page of my local Worker’s Compensation Service newsletter (WorkCover SA Newslink Issue 11 - April 2008.)
They are right - except for the word “seek”.
Some […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fake pills and treatments are such wonderful things.
They work roughly 30% of the time, on almost anything.
With the technical term of ‘placebos’ they are the gold standard treatment against which every other treatment is measured.
And the whole field is shrouded in mystery.
Why do blue placebos make people more sleepy, while red placebos keep people more […]
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 […]