Learn How To Say ‘Hi’
Dr. Smile 15 May, 2008
(2) Comment Dr. Mark Goulston thought himself a coward. At parties he would stand by the chip dip, never approaching people and rarely meeting anyone new. “My father was shy,” says Goulston, “so I grew up thinking that ‘assertive’ meant ‘pushy.’ ”
A psychiatrist in Santa Monica, Calif., Goulston knew all about social anxiety–and still he couldn’t beat it. Then his first child came. “I wanted to be someone my daughter would grow to look up to, and I didn’t feel at that moment that she would,” he recalls. So at the next party he and his wife attended, Goulston set a goal for himself: “to meet three new people and have them be glad to have met me.” Twenty-five years later, Goulston, 60, writes and lectures about overcoming anxiety and guides patients through the process.
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Internet Addiction Can Make You Sick
Dr. Smile 24 March, 2008
(5) Comment This morning i was going through a news article on Rediff.com and was quite surprised. Its about internet addiction in the global arena. I can really sense myself into this lest i make some revival among my lifestyle or very soon i would land up in an addiction center, lol!
If you are an internet addict, it is high time you visit a psychiatrist.
Addiction to online gaming, e-mailing, chatting and viewing porn can lead to mental health problems and therefore should be officially recognised as a ‘clinical disorder’, according to a prominent American psychiatrist.
Dr Jerald Block from Oregon Health & Science University claims too many hours spent on internet can cause a compulsive-impulsive disorder.
“The addicts exhaust emotions that they could experience in the real world on the computer through any number of mechanisms: emailing, gaming, porn,” Dr Block said.
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