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Creative Numbing

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:08:52 PST

Maybe it is aging, but I don't think so. By evening I'm so wiped out physically and emotionally (and it isn't from work, although working can be emotional sometimes) that all I want to do is...

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Snapshots: Dogs and Eye Glasses

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:03:03 PST

DOGS We’re at Big Bear Mountain and my daughter is tubing down a big hill with my grandsons, holding the 3 year old in her lap. She tires out, brings the baby to me (he's three), takes off...

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One for the Weak Side

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:00:48 PST

It happens quite a bit, and we’ve talked about it before, that the weak get weaker and the strong get stronger. There’s a Harry Potter metaphor in there somewhere. What happens is that a...

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Martin Luther King

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:16:42 PST

Why write about Martin Luther King on this blog? Because he tried to kill himself. Not once, but twice. And we can learn from that. Time tells us this in the "Man of the Year" article...

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Progress Not Perfection

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:48:15 PST

This might be a spoiler if you didn’t see last Sunday’s Desperate Housewives. We’ve been watching Tom and Lynette fight for years, and now that Tom is successful in advertising, he’s leaving her. ...

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Please Don't Leave Me

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:19:04 PST

He's Just Not That Into You--It's not a new movie, and a lot of people said they were Just Not Into It. But the topic had me at hello. The cast is stunning, for one. I watch chick...

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More Snapshots: You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:27:32 PST

1. Recycling I approach the bin, a huge black plastic garbage can, with trepidation. It's getting too full. I'll never get the mega-sized clear plastic bag to the car. Someone else will have to...

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Snapshots: Masters of Destiny

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:48:26 PST

Wow, that was depressing, the last post, the one about the crash, the "nervous breakdown." And long. I know they've all been too long lately, these posts, and promise, bli neder (rhymes with...

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My nervous breakdown, not yours

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:34:52 PST

Because we're all entitled to at least one nervous breakdown. It can't be, Let me tell you about my nervous breakdown, and someone else chimes in with a story about their own. What is...

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U-C Davis

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:34:01 PST

I just don't get it, and I'm supposed to get everything. If you saw the video, you saw kids lined up, sitting in a line on the ground, heads between their knees, and policemen spraying them...

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Snapshots: Being Thankful

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:15:54 PST

Glenn Hasard has a song, Falling Slowly. I woke up singing it today. Every Saturday I walk over to visit my mother, and each time, pass a crack in the sidewalk, a rise about three inches high, and...

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Paterno-Sandusky

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:46:46 PST

File this one under Things That Make You Feel Bad. BuzzFeed photo http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/the-reason-joe-paterno-was-fired Joe Paterno Depressed for about a week, I buried myself...

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Multiple Personality Deception: Sybil Exposed

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:30:04 PDT

Debbie Nathan, a writer, has exposed Sybil as a lie. For those of you who don't know about Sybil, she had 16 different personalities, according to Flora Rheta Schreiber the woman who made her...

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Snapshots: The a.m. and the p.m. hug

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:38:57 PDT

(1) I understand that New York therapists take off the entire month of August. But my habit, being a Chicagoan (as opposed to a New Yorker) is to take off Jewish holidays and an occasional mental...

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Back A 'Cha

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:38:44 PDT

For the uninitiated, this is a reciprocation post thanking bloggers who link to my blog, and exposing them for who and what they are, generally awesome. If you wrote me and I lost your email,...

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Do the Walls Come Down

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:22:05 PDT

This is a situation that therapist's see often enough; you might see yourself here. Switch the she to a he, the he to a she, do whatever you want with the genders. We'll get to Carly Simon...

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Behavioral Zen

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:35:04 PDT

I’m having lunch with one of my married sons and his wife, and they tell me that they visited my mother. “You should see her zipping down the halls in that new walker! Wow! It’s scary!” cries...

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Out of the Darkness: Suicide Prevention

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:52:35 PDT

One more and I'll leave you alone for awhile. I promise. (blee neder*) April Jervis shares this email with me. I thought I should pass it along: (italics mine) This week the...

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A First Rate Revision

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:43:05 PDT

As soon as I published that last one I thought, "They'll take me to the mat." ( ENT, A First Rate Madness). But no one did. You should have. This is in reference to the parting shot,...

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A First Rate Madness

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:31:26 PDT

Sometimes in this business you are called upon to treat a madman, or a madwoman, someone seemingly psychotic, talking way over your head, out there, but still oriented times three (person, place,...

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Reversing the Decay of London Undone

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:18:43 PDT

Oh, it's a maximalist post, I guess, not terribly accessible, and not for the feint of heart. Reflects that 911 mood. Everyone needs therapy is a self-serving bias, you know, for a family...

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Snapshots: The bride, the new dress

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:03:04 PDT

1. There's a snapshot, a bride and her cell phone. The bride-to-be fears her wedding will be an earthquake casualty. She rushes through a park holding up her white dress with one hand,...

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Set Rape Education Back 20 Years?

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:23:04 PDT

I know, not everyone cares. Probably, most people don't care. And I realize that intellectuals believe in free thought and the right to behave as one believes is within one's rights, and a...

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Ghosting

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:41:43 PDT

You have been rejected, dumped. Your ex hasn't been very nice about it, either. You feel used, used up, hurt beyond words. And because you have cried so much, you are beginning to feel angry. It...

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My 100 Children

therapydoc@gmail.com (therapydoc) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:58:08 PDT

Sometimes I feel that I have at least 100 children, maybe more. But that's ridiculous. http://www.jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/my100children.htm. We find our inspiration wherever we...

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