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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So many of those who are suffering emotionally don’t have insights to what perpetuates their suffering. If they do have an understanding, they may not have the words to communicate these insights to those who are trying to help.
Charles Tadros, M.D. November 10, 2024 Saint Louis, Missouri
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
SUFFERING BY ONE’S SELF IS INFINITELY MORE TRAUMATIZING THAN EXPERIENCING THAT SHARING THAT SAME SUFFERING ALONG WITH SOMEONE ELSE.
Charles Tadros, M.D. September 18, 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
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 aContinue reading “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.”
CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS DO NOT EXIST JUST IN THE SUFFERING PERSON’S BODY AND MIND. NEITHER DOES THEIR RELIEF.
Charles Tadros, M.D. June 8, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
A TRUE TEST OF PARENTHOOD IS IN SITTING AND LISTENING QUIETLY, WITHOUT COMMENT OR JUDGEMENT, AS YOUR CHILD DESCRIBES HER SUFFERING OR AS YOUR SON DOES SOMETHING THAT YOU TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH, BUT NEITHER OF THEM HAVE ASKED FOR YOUR HELP OR FOR YOUR ADVICE.
Charles Tadros, M.D. May 5, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
OFTEN, OFFERING HELP IS NOT PULLING SOMEONE OUT OF SUFFERING AND DESPAIR. HELP MAY SIMPLY BE WADING INTO THAT SAME SUFFERING AND DESPAIR SO THAT THAT SOMEONE IS NOT SO ALONE.
Charles Tadros,M.D. April 29, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri