Good morning J. This doesn’t work for everyone, but this maybe what you’re looking for: The Sinclair Method (please watch YouTube first, then go to the website) https://youtu.be/6EghiY_s2ts https://cthreefoundation.org/ And from the New York Times: “Cold Turkey Isn’t the Only Route” https://nyti.ms/1cmKofM A related book, by the author of the New York Times piece: https://gabrielleglaser.com/books/her-best-kept-secretContinue reading “My email this morning to a friend who wants to feel better without having to drink so much, while not wanting to give up alcohol.”
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It is very hard for you to notice the need for change, initiate that change, or even sustain that change if everything and everybody around you is signaling that: they don’t care if you try to change, or that they don’t notice the need/your need for change or that they won’t participate in supporting your change.
You can read all the self-help books and watch all the self-help videos, and finally be convinced and finally have a strategy for your helping yourself make a needed change. Unfortunately, your friends, coworkers, relatives, and loved ones have not been on the same journey with you. Often, you will need their encouragement and theirContinue reading “It is very hard for you to notice the need for change, initiate that change, or even sustain that change if everything and everybody around you is signaling that: they don’t care if you try to change, or that they don’t notice the need/your need for change or that they won’t participate in supporting your change.”
The unwritten rules of showing that we’re serious about our work, wanting to keep our jobs, and and serious about supporting our employer…
taking responsibility, even if it’s not our fault going, “above and beyond”, without asking for renumeration or recognition taking on coworkers’ responsibilities taking on more work than is assigned anticipating coworkers’ and supervisors’ needs not complaining not criticizing not job hunting not asking for raises, positions, or job/career advancements assuming that the company’s way orContinue reading “The unwritten rules of showing that we’re serious about our work, wanting to keep our jobs, and and serious about supporting our employer…”
Shame and embarrassment, as well as the fear of these thoughts and feelings, persist in part because we’re in the same life situations, around the same friends, same family, same work, the same ques and triggers. These people and the places that make up our environments may represent love and support, but often these people and places lock us into our same patterns, making it difficult for us to accept ourselves, our thoughts, our feelings, and our situations. Intentionally, or unintentionally, these people and places make it difficult for us to accept reality while still asking ourselves to change by seeing things differently, thinking differently, and behaving differently.
Charles Tadros, M.D. January 12, 2023 Saint Louis, Missouri
Your FICO score (credit worthiness) does not know your income, your net worth, your living paycheck to paycheck, who is paying your bills, or how you are paying your bills.
https://www.myfico.com/credit-education/whats-in-your-credit-score Charles Tadros, M.D. January 10, 2023 Saint Louis, Missouri
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is nondestructive, whole body muscle and tendon (not joint) achiness that waxes and wanes.
FMS is a chronic pain disorder, with abnormalities on functional MRI (fMRI) of the brain: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10489-1 FMS is often described,” like having (the achiness of) the flu”, or “like being hit (all over my body) with a baseball bat”, or, “like being run over by a bus”. Often, FMS runs in families. FMS is associatedContinue reading “Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is nondestructive, whole body muscle and tendon (not joint) achiness that waxes and wanes.”
George Carlin
https://youtube.com/shorts/a9udFfIVuNA?feature=share I used to think of Carlin as being nihilistic. But he is trying to be an observer…trying to be in this world, but not of this world. I’ll call this a form of mental health…not to be trapped by religion, culture, or society, but to still care about the individual. Charles Tadros, M.D. DecemberContinue reading “George Carlin”
Nice summary of the last 40 years of primary care in the U.S.
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/3763739-a-four-point-strategy-to-disrupt-and-reinvent-primary-care/ The four point strategy to disrupt and reinvent primary care has many competing ideas, but the history that got us here is very accurate. Charles Tadros, M.D. December 8, 2022 Saint Louis, Missouri
A recent text to one of my dearest friends, regarding a very difficult time with a new diagnosis…
Your care is in very competent and kind hands. You are surrounded by a loving family. Some of life’s problems become fully resolved, never to return again. The majority of the problems that we face require a mixture of trade-offs and adjustments to living with limitations that we don’t like, but are made easier withContinue reading “A recent text to one of my dearest friends, regarding a very difficult time with a new diagnosis…”
Recognizing some of the most common pre-suicide thoughts, behaviors, and actions…
CALL or TEXT 988 for our National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline A HOPELESSNESS that things can be better AND HELPLESSNESS to do anything/ to ask anyone to make things better / to relieve the distress Many adults send signals regarding their suicidality: [Very young children will demonstrate almost none of these signs or symptoms.] TALKContinue reading “Recognizing some of the most common pre-suicide thoughts, behaviors, and actions…”