Even these trivial, sometimes remedial actions mean something important in your health and in your relationships. We are so used to making big decisions, taking on big risks, big responsibilities, and big challenges that we trivialize and minimize the ultra small stuff (which may add up to big things). Whether it’s in financial investments, self-knowledge,Continue reading “My texting to a patient under my care. He has prolonged, severe anxiety, panic, and depression…”
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The lack of hope, the lack of being able to imagine a better future for oneself or for one’s family does not invariably lead to depression, despondency, inertia, a lack of will, or a lack of direction …
https://youtube.com/shorts/vkE70PIRSao?si=TJCSFT4hle0c_Zc3 All of us have to believe that our life situations are either acceptable, could get better, or will get better. Hope is not just an empty wish. Hope is life saving… not only for the person searching for it, but for the rest of us who are touched by that person’s life. Charles Tadros,Continue reading “The lack of hope, the lack of being able to imagine a better future for oneself or for one’s family does not invariably lead to depression, despondency, inertia, a lack of will, or a lack of direction …”
Illness and suffering, our own, as well as that of others, remind us of the miracle of life, the elevation of life through love and empathy, the wonder of nature and the universe, the superficiality of physical death, and the infinite possibilities yet to be discovered.
Charles Tadros, M.D. February 7, 2023 Saint Louis, Missouri
SOME PEOPLE NEED TO LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO:
leave their pasts distance themselves from their family make different friends experience new environments improve their socioeconomic, educational, political, personal, and religious conditions improve their mindsets Charles Tadros, M.D. July 6, 2022 Saint Louis, Missouri
IN MY MEDICAL PRACTICE, I HAVE TAKEN CARE OF SEVERAL, YOUNG, HIGH SCHOOL MEN WHO WERE ABOUT TO GRADUATE. WHEN I WOULD ASK THEM WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO NEXT, AFTER COMPETING HIGH SCHOOL, SEVERAL WOULD STATE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO SOMETHING WITH ONLINE, OR MULTIPLAYER GAMING. I WOULD THEN ASK IF THEY WANTED TO CODE GAMES, WRITE STORYLINES, DRAW THE ARTWORK, ETC.? THESE MEN WOULD PAUSE AND THEN, UNIFORMLY, THEY WOULD STATE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO PLAY THE NEWEST VIDEO GAMES AND GET GOOD ENOUGH IN ORDER TO ADVISE THE GAME DEVELOPERS HOW TO DESIGN BETTER LEVELS AND BETTER GAMES.
Charles Tadros, M.D. October 3, 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
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
ONE OF THE GNAWING WORRIES THAT WE MAY EXPERIENCE IS, “AM I LIVING THE BEST LIFE I CAN, OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE, DIFFERENT, IF NOT BETTER, FOR ME?”
Charles Tadros, M.D. September 1, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
RULES WHICH ARE INTUITIVE, SHORT, SIMPLE, CONSISTENTLY APPLIED AND UNIFORMLY APPLIED, EVEN IF NOT UNIVERSALLY AGREED UPON, ARE COMFORTING, UNIFYING, JOB SAVING, CAREER SAVING, AND LIFE SAVING.
Charles Tadros, M.D. July 25, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
HOUSES ARE EMPTY BOXES, BLANK CANVASES. WE BIRTHE, GRIEVE, INVITE, PLANT, HANG, DRILL, ATTACH, FILL, AND PAINT OUR LIVES INTO THEM.
Charles Tadros, M.D. May 19, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri