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Hello new followers! I am a psychologist in the great state of Ohio. I learned to be a therapist treating Vietnam Veterans. My dissertation is on positive change after trauma. My clients are Veterans, police officers, emergency care workers, and first-responders. And I make memes
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Therapy works if
1) you are a willing participant and want it to work
2) you have a good fit of a therapist who are you comfortable opening up to and challenges you toward change and growth
Radical Behaviorism
Psychoeducation
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychoanalysis
Person-Centered Therapy
If you never had to work again, would you be happy? xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1aKbdEgzM…
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Dr Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winner, renowned scientist explains what’s required to have a great career and life.
“Make sure you do something you enjoy”.
“Tell them to go to hell”.
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In college we has `rejection Tuesdays` where you had to try and get rejected.
Homies got married left and right
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The therapist’s job is to do everything in her power not just to promote self-understanding but to encourage experimentation.
Jeffrey A. Kottler, On Being a Therapist
Question for tonight’s episode of Living Well in the Age of AI:
If you never had to work again, would you be happy?
As a student I attended one of those funny weekend transformation groups with a guy who walked with a limp. Seemed silly until after some Empty Chair work he could run. He gave the instructor his cane saying he didn’t need it anymore. It became one of the first methods I studied.
Psychosocial recovery and rehabilitation considers living medicine. Exercising in groups, eating nutritious community meals, and attending events in communities does more for people with severe mental illness than being handed drugs and sent out a revolving door.
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It was more a general question, do medications help people to truly recover or just lead fulfilling lives as long as they keep taking them
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“Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.”
--D.W. Winnicott
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Psychoanalysis is a profession centrally concerned with what is not known and, therefore, may have a critical role to play in uncertain, extraordinary times.


















