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POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND PROPRANOLOL
Propranolol is an antihypertensive medication [lowers blood pressure] that works by blocking beta adrenergic receptors in the body and brain. A number of years ago I learned that propranolol can be used to treat performance anxiety such as public speaking fears. It could successfully reduce the anxiety that would be triggered in some people by…
Read MoreHONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY…OR IS IT THE ONLY POLICY?
My patients have helped me to see the importance of being self-aware and self-accepting. Being self-aware requires that we are honest with ourselves and take responsibility for what we say and do. This means no blaming others, or judging others. When we blame or judge others we are separating ourselves from others, and from ourselves.…
Read MoreBULLYING AND OUR CHILDREN
A 2022 estimate from the National Bullying Prevention Center indicates that one out of five [19.2%] of children experience bullying at school [from the National Center for Education Statistics, 2022]. A study that includes data from 83 countries showed that 30.5% of adolescents reporting being bullied. A national survey conducted by the US Department of…
Read MoreWHY YOU SHOULD NOT GIVE IN TO BULLIES
I recently blogged about bullies and how to protect yourself from bullies and how to help bullies not be bullies. Recent events in the United States reminded me about the importance of not giving into bullies. Bullies do not take responsibility for themselves and try to get others to be responsible for them. This seems…
Read MoreTHE VALUE OF LISTENING…REALLY LISTENING
I have very frequently seen that choosing to listen to others without our personal reactions to what we are hearing is a very good way to be with someone and feel a connection to them. It often is confusing at first as we have been influenced by a commonly held belief that we should react…
Read MoreBeing True to Yourself Can Make a Difference
Many of my patients tell me that they feel that there is nothing that they can do to make a difference in the world. I encourage them to [just] be themselves and do what they believe is right. Over and over I have seen that how people live their lives and the choices that they…
Read MoreWe Really Do Need Each Other
The recent Beta Theta Pi magazine has an article about preventing suicide and refers to a Harvard study [The Harvard Study of Adult Development] and comments from the study’s fourth director Robert Waldinger, M.D. [who is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School] who concludes that friendships and relationships in general are highly correlated…
Read MoreWhy Frightening Us Doesn’t Work
I have previously written about the problem of allowing ourselves to become frightened and/or anxious by watching the news on TV as it is often about negative events with no information about what can be done positively to help stop or reduce the frequency of the event or similar events. Seeing these events on the…
Read MoreEverything in Moderation?!
I have previously written about the importance of we [humans] being aware of doing things in a moderate way. Now that doesn’t mean much unless it is defined and it’s meaning clarified. One way that I have thought about this idea of moderation recently relates to what seems to be a problem in that important…
Read MoreIs It Ok to Talk About Your Suicide Attempt?
A recent opinion pieceby Benedict Carey in the April 14, 2014 New York Times national edition, talked about suicide prevention efforts now beginning to include input from the close to one million adults in the USA who have attempted suicide. [About 38,000 americans do kill themselves every year]. Mr. Carey reports that previously, talking about…
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