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Author Archives: jamesmatter
Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction
Just got done reading an interesting piece on the headline topic on NPR website: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/12/523774660/a-drugmaker-tries-to-cash-in-on-the-opioid-epidemic-one-state-law-at-a-time Apparently the makers of Vivitrol are lobbying hard to get states to use their product at the expense of other products. This is just a heads-up … Continue reading
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Turning the Mind, Fighting Worries
Sometimes I forget to put things here because they seem very basic to me, but then I go over them with a client and I realize that while they may be very basic and simple to learn, they are not … Continue reading
When Happiness Is Bad For You
I’m still short on time for original content creation, but couldn’t pass up this item from the Center for Greater Good. It reminds me of a folk story I read in a collection once upon a time, long ago … Continue reading
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Not New Content– But..
Perhaps a clue as to how to be content… http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/03/20/520803361/is-happiness-a-universal-human-right
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Love After Love
Ran across a poem from one of my favorite poets: Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s … Continue reading
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Fake News, Creativity, Fact Checking, Happiness
If I am someone with depression, I may go to a cognitive therapist. The cognitive therapist will then coach me on identifying my cognitive distortions, like all/nothing thinking, fortune-telling, discounting, labeling, over-generalization, and so on. The handbook for this is … Continue reading
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Mixed Feelings
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/513126985/house-votes-to-overturn-obama-rule-restricting-gun-sales-to-mentally-ill On one hand, it would be nice if we could get away from stigmatizing people with mental illness. On the other hand, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/ gun suicides outnumber gun homicides two to one.
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