Tag: Mental Health
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Get Out There!
When I notice a message or admonition in at least three places, I pay attention. If there is a fourth place that comes to the fore, then I must share it with you, because it must be important, right? This particular nugget of wisdom was touted by two of my favorite writers, a character in…
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Good Grief
I had been looking forward to and at the same time dreading this appointment. Her husband had been ill for many months, but that had not stopped the verbal abuse that superseded the physical blows that he could no longer hurt her with. She had over many previous visits told me stories, chronicled the behaviors…
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Streetwise
I am up early on this day that is to be another scorcher. They say it will not quite reach ninety today, which is good. A heat index of one hundred is not my friend. I don’t tolerate the biological steam, outside and in. I grow weak and faint sometimes. I get angry. My temper…
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And A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Funny how the world and its many events can stimulate our brains to recall things. When I initially wrote this column it was the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day, at that time the largest planned, multi-nation amphibious assault on an enemy defensive line in the history of warfare. I had also been reading about global warming,…
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A Bridge Too Far
She was one of my first long term, supervised psychotherapy cases during the second year of my psychiatric residency. She was young, but still a year or two older than her inexperienced, wet behind the ears therapist, and I use that term very loosely. I was to see her once a week, and ever other…