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Listening to Your Symptoms Is Listening to Your Soul

Gregg Levoy on December 2, 2023 in Passion!

A Personal Perspective: Symptoms—physical or behavioral—are one of the languages the soul uses to get through to you, to convey something about itself. Listen to the messages.

A Personal Perspective: Symptoms—physical or behavioral—are one of the languages the soul uses to get through to you, to convey something about itself. Listen to the messages.

Media

Should TV Accurately Reflect Real Life?

Alan Jern Ph.D. on December 2, 2023 in Overthinking TV

A new report on death on TV suggests that unrepresentative depictions of death may give people unrealistic expectations about the dying process. But does TV need to be realistic?

A new report on death on TV suggests that unrepresentative depictions of death may give people unrealistic expectations about the dying process. But does TV need to be realistic?

Health

The Problem With "Dr. Google"

Phil Lane MSW, LCSW on December 2, 2023 in Am I Dying?

When we use the internet to self-diagnose and research physical symptoms, we risk receiving unhelpful and inaccurate information that can cause our anxiety to spike.

When we use the internet to self-diagnose and research physical symptoms, we risk receiving unhelpful and inaccurate information that can cause our anxiety to spike.

Humor

Working the ER According to Marx and Heller

Kenneth R. Weinberg M.D. on December 2, 2023 in Bedside Manners

A Personal Perspective: As a long-time ER physician, I've found that a love of cinema and literature, mixed with a Borscht Belt sense of humor, has helped me cling to sanity.

A Personal Perspective: As a long-time ER physician, I've found that a love of cinema and literature, mixed with a Borscht Belt sense of humor, has helped me cling to sanity.

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Why Expertise Is Better Than Experience

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Health Anxiety and the Black-or-White Thinking Error

Brittney Chesworth Ph.D., LCSW on December 1, 2023 in Managing Health Anxiety

People with health anxiety tend to see health as a dichotomy in which one is either perfectly healthy or deathly ill. It can be helpful to learn to see health on a spectrum.

People with health anxiety tend to see health as a dichotomy in which one is either perfectly healthy or deathly ill. It can be helpful to learn to see health on a spectrum.

Creativity

"Crazy for Life" Rules for Writing

Victoria Maxwell on December 1, 2023 in Crazy for Life

A Personal Perspective: Some of my rules for writing are good rules for life, too. Take what you like and crumple up the rest (that’s actually a good rule to follow too).

A Personal Perspective: Some of my rules for writing are good rules for life, too. Take what you like and crumple up the rest (that’s actually a good rule to follow too).

Addiction

2 Words Stop Addiction

Donald Altman on December 1, 2023 in Practical Mindfulness

Trying to fix bad habits can be like trying to stop a leaky faucet. What you need is a new approach that supports change one step at a time—and it's easier than you think.

Trying to fix bad habits can be like trying to stop a leaky faucet. What you need is a new approach that supports change one step at a time—and it's easier than you think.

Relationships

What Does It Mean to Be Wired for Love?

Amy Banks on December 1, 2023 in Wired For Love

A Personal Perspective: The fact that connections, these new, healthy relationships, born of the darkest human circumstances, gave their lives meaning and purpose is extraordinary.

A Personal Perspective: The fact that connections, these new, healthy relationships, born of the darkest human circumstances, gave their lives meaning and purpose is extraordinary.