Category: Back at the Office
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Meanwhile back at the office….
It doesn’t happen often or even regularly but occasionally I will talk about the careers I have had prior to becoming a psychologist. One such occasion went a little something like this. “You weren’t always a psychologist?” This question always amuses me. It is childlike in its innocence, like a child coming to the realization…
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Meanwhile back at my office: The problem with Christian holidays
What makes you laugh? Yesterday at work I was in a pretty good mood and eventually my medical assistant could stand it no more and asked me what was up… Her: you’re sure in a good mood today doctor Me: yeah I guess I’m excited for tomorrow Her: oh for Good Friday? Me: I’ll say…
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Meanwhile back at my office: The Problem with Self Confidence….
I have explained this in other “back at the office” posts but as I have recently expanded the reach my blog has, it bears repeating. Some of the psychological posts I write are in the form of a conversation I have in my office with a patient. The patient in these stories is not an actual…
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Back at the office: the gap of disbelief
“But I do all those things and nothing works. I don’t think anything will ever work.” As the words left her lips she began to cry, but only with her eyes. The tears ran but the rest of her appeared resolute. She was desperate and defeated at the same time. I have been working with this patient for…
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Childhood Development pt 1: Where did this attitude come from?
While I do work with some teenage people from time-to-time I don’t work with young children much, for a lot of reasons such as it really irks me when someone brings in their child and essentially tells me, “I don’t like the way this little person is acting and I want you to fix it.” …
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meanwhile, back at the office
a question of perspective… “I don’t know why you keep saying that, I know there’s something wrong with me. there has to be.” I’ve heard her say this before and she isn’t the only one. Many patients have tried to make the same argument with me in the past. though the path changes along the way, the destination is pretty much the same. Trying to sound reassuring I said, “I know you want to believe that but that doesn’t…