Zen Psychiatry
By Elana Miller, MD
"Become skillful in regards to yourself and other through contact, from confronting and dealing with things, not from running away.Wherever it hurts, wherever there's friction, we must investigate. …
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I've talked before about how I'm working diligently on my 4-Hour Workweek muse (more on that later). What I didn't emphasize before was the doubt that has come along with this project.Since I've …
I've noticed a disturbing trend. I just started my (thankfully brief) rotation on inpatient medicine, and before that I did two months of outpatient medicine. What has really blown me away as I work …
After a particularly bad breakup a couple of years ago, I got some great advice from a therapist (I love therapy, by the way - sometimes I wish I could hire a therapist to follow me around in my …
I read this book a little bit ago by David A. Kessler called The End of Overeating, and shortly after went to a talk at UCLA titled “Addiction and Obesity: Are they related maladaptive behaviors?” It …
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Discovering new hobbies and learning new skills is one of the greatest pleasures of life. Things get boring if you always stay in your comfort zone and never try anything new. There are gazillions of …
