NOT YOUR DOC

SOMETIMES THE EARTH UNDER YOU IS MOVING, AND EVERYTHING AROUND YOU IS SWIRLING AND CHANGING, BUT YOU ARE NOT CHANGING. DO YOU CHOOSE TO STAY THE SAME? DO YOU ADJUST BY MOVING IN WAYS AND DIRECTIONS THAT MAY MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR YOU, BUT TRULY ARE NOT YOU?

Your friends, who work at the same job with you, and support you emotionally, move to other jobs. Then, your supervisors, with whom you get along, get promoted and move on. The new supervisors and the company start wanting you to change how you perform your job, and change how your performance is measured. Do accommodate all the changes, by changing yourself and staying, or, do you move on?

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 17, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

WE NEED TO ITERATE, TEST, FAIL FAST, “MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS”, WHEN DEALING WITH SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE. THIS SAME PHILOSOPHY DOES NOT APPLY WHEN INVOLVING HUMAN EMOTIONS, HEALTH, LIFE, AND SUFFERING.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 16, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

IF YOU DO NOT (GENTLY, KINDLY, AND CONSCIENTIOUSLY) TELL A LOVED ONE AN URGENT TRUTH ABOUT THEM, NOW, YOU AND THAT PERSON WILL SUFFER, TOGETHER, LATER.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 16, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

Your insomnia, sadness, depression, anxiety, traumatized feelings, and substance abuse are, in large part, a response to your thinking and believing that there is something wrong with you or that something went terribly wrong in your past.

Sometimes, suffering and incapacity are due to a disease or diseases.

Often, suffering and incapacity are due to our minds and our bodies RESPONDING ( ie an immediate, but dysfunctional, tactic to survive) to diseases and traumas.

Later in life, this tactic, this dysfunction, no longer serves the original purpose of helping us survive a horrible situation. Now this tactic, this dysfunction, gets in the way of our mental health, physical health, relationships, ability to enjoy life, and our ability to hold down a job.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 15, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

No matter who we are, we all have at least a little bit of pride and a little bit of ego invested in everything we do or say. Unfortunately these two human traits prevent us from recognizing that we need help, asking for help, and accepting help. Others who love us and care about us, have pretty good insights into our deficiencies and insights into the causes for our problems. LISTEN TO THESE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 15, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

CLEAN OUT your head (sleep, exercise, screen time, sleep apnea, alcohol, drugs, poor nutrition, mood and anxiety), in order to CLEAR UP how you think.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 15, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

Our high school English teachers or college rhetoric teachers may have instructed us to improve how we deliver our messages by writing more precisely, and using fewer words. Likewise, all of us can speak more precisely, and conserve words in order to achieve these same goals.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 15, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS NEEDED, IS NEW, GENERATES GREAT BUZZ, AND IS THE MOST TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED, DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MAKE IT THE BEST, OR EVEN THE RIGHT, ANSWER FOR OUR PROBLEMS.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 13, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

WHY IT IS SO CONFUSING IS THAT YOU CAN BELIEVE ALMOST ANYTHING, BE FORMALLY EDUCATED (or not), BE IN ALMOST ANY TYPE OF BUSINESS, AND STILL MAKE A VERY SUCCESSFUL LIFE AND LIVING OUT OF IT ALL.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 13, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri

SMALL CHANGES NOW (plus time and patience), OR SMALL CHANGES STRETCHED OUT OVER TIME, OFTEN LEAD TO DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT RESULTS THAN EXPECTED.

Charles Tadros, M.D.

September 12, 2021

Saint Louis, Missouri