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She Is Worth It, But Maybe Not Because Of What You Think
Image by George Eastman House via Flickr She is worth it! Have you said that? Half crazed from this-way-that-way behaviors, your battered psyche crawls out of the smoking heap from your most recent...
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No One is Choosing For You – Know Your Choices For Health
Yesterday we asked some pithy questions re: Why Psychiatry? Your responses were received with gratitude and humility. It takes courage to understand our connection with psychiatry considering ongoing...
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Become a Better Friend To Yourself In and With Your Culture
Image by Toban Black via Flickr A barrier to getting friendly with ourselves might be our culture. The inverse of course could also be true. ’Takes culture to design the flavor of our homes and...
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Run Away Before You Self-Destruct – Keep Yourself Safe
This is a slight remake from 7/25/10. Hugs to all. ____________________________________________ When you feel the pull to do something that isn’t good for you, turn away from it. Do something that you...
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Insight Isn’t Worth Much For Self-Care… Or Is It?
Image via Wikipedia Much of self-care is about taking accountability for our choices. Choices come in deliberately - “Oh my! I’m old already! It’s time to have a baby!” Or not deliberately – “Oh...
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Remember, You Are Free, Even When You Accept Help.
In becoming a friend to yourself, we all use tools; a hoe, a shovel, a bottle of medications, friends and lots of floss. Not all in the same moment or we might get hurt. None of the tools we use are...
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Violence and Originality for friendship
Guest Post! …keep reading… Learning new ideas and concepts releases Dopamine, the “feel good” neurotransmitter/messenger. I find this theory consistent with my personal experience as I am studying for...
View ArticleIt’s not my fault
The new on-call resident – Jonathan, I think was his name? – was trying to present another admission to me. He was visibly annoyed. “…so, the ER calls me and says, you have a patient with chest pain,...
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My morning clinic had been hectic but not very interesting. I felt bad for the student who had been assigned to me – we had not seen any unusual cardiac pathology. Instead, we had heard a long litany...
View ArticleI can’t say this but…
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful face on an empty head. Proverbs 11:22 It was just too funny.
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