Tag: psychology
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Football, fantasy?…..
So my stepson plays fantasy football. Now I don’t know anything about regular football even less about fantasy varieties of the sport, but I love my stepson so I asked him how his game is going. I’m pretty sure fantasy football is like a video game, right? As soon as the question was out of…
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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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More to come, maybe
Heard a guy say something in an Instagram video which blew me away. The quote was so profound that I immediately thought of expanding on it here but honestly I’m still to shaken by its truth and the clarity it provided me. What was the quote? First some context, it was in a video posted…
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How a neurosis works
You wake up with a scratchy throat and wonder if you were snoring last night but by the end of the day you are sterilizing your house and swabbing the inside of your water bottle because you definitely have some sort of mold infection.
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Sometimes #3
Sometimes In spite of our efforts In spite of our desires There is nothing more to be done
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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…
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Sometimes #2
I call every week Sometimes you answer and you talk of your latest complaints Sometimes you don’t answer And I feel relief