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Round and Round Goes the Merry-Go-Round – Drugless Therapy for OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) – (INTRODUCTION)

Introduction This book was written from a layman’s perspective. It is not intended to be a medical book. Most of the people whose stories I have told, will never seek medical advice and those who do won’t share their secrets with their doctors. Marty Gibbons is one of these people. He knows that he has a serious case of OCD but he won’t talk about his problems. He will acknowledge that he does everything in multiples of three, e.g., brushing …

The Big Tradeoff

There were plenty of things that were wrong with my generation but there were a lot of things that were right with it, too. I think the thing I miss most about it is that we learned how to entertain ourselves without the necessity to buy everything that came out on the market. There was also a lot less “keeping up with the Joneses” in my day because the Joneses had about as much as we had and consumerism had …

Do You Have a Plan B?

As surprising as it is, most people don’t have a Plan B to fall back on, in case their Plan A doesn’t work out. In fact, many people don’t even have a Plan A; they just depend on things falling into their lap. Many of my clients have left their jobs without having any idea of what they were going to do to earn a living after they quit. They didn’t even have any idea of what they were going …

Holiday Depression

As a rule, during the holiday season, I used to see people being nicer and more jovial. Maybe not quite jovial, but more mellow. This year, there seems to be a marked decrease in the holiday cheer. Usually during the days leading up to Christmas, people used to be more patient when standing in long lines at the store. This year, there is more of an attitude of resignation. In the past, people used to talk to each other while …

Letting Go and Moving On

It doesn’t seem to matter whether you are grieving the end of a person’s life or the end of a deep relationship, the grieving process can feel like the same. Many years ago, someone told me after the death of a very dear person, “The first week you cry for the person who died. The second week you cry for yourself. The third week you cry for everyone else.” At the time, I thought there might be a lot of …

Are You as Interesting as Your Blogs?

I was reading some of the website blogs and Facebook entries and they got me to thinking about the people who post them. Some of the things they tell us about themselves make them seem as though their lives are way more exciting than mine. Now, that alone, isn’t terribly surprising because lately I’ve been feeling that I’m living a beige life. But, then I got to wondering if my life is more beige than the average person who posts …

Working from Home vs. Office

Before you go running to your boss telling him that studies show you will be more productive if you work from home, ask yourself if this is really so. On the one hand, you can miss the unproductive meetings that managers and head honchos seem to think are so important but, instead, take up valuable time, accomplishing little or nothing. You can also avoid all the ASAP emails that you feel compelled to answer immediately simply because everyone knows you’re …

Exposed: Groom-To-Be Faked His Own Death

In this day and age when you have telephones, emails, and text messages to avoid difficult conversations, it’s more than cowardly to fake your own death to avoid getting married; it’s downright cruel. The groom-to-be met his fiancée two years ago while she was studying abroad in the U.S. When she began making plans to return to England, he proposed and, during their daily calls, they began making plans to spend the rest of their lives together. He wanted to …

The Agony of Decision-Making

It always used to surprise me that people who were so smart and so accomplished could agonize every time they had to make a decision. At first, I thought this was a rarity but, later on, I discovered that far from being a rare occurrence, a lot of people suffered the same distress. My first reaction was to see if their inability to make decisions was caused by depression or fear but, what I found was that the reason most …

Your Next Career After Retirement

Over the last several years, there has been a great emphasis on how scientists are on the threshold of discovering a way for us to live to 150. For so many reasons, this sends chills down my spine. In addition to new health problems associated with old age, there is the matter of one’s career. Don’t, for a minute, think that Social Security will go on supporting us for an additional eighty-five years if we really are living to the …

Connie H. Deutsch