mysteryshrink

I'm a psychologist who goes to way too many movies, for the same reason I chose this profession. I love stories. I use movies and novels working with people in my office and during speaking engagements. "You should write some of this down," I kept being told. So, this is it, folks.

Stress: Mobile Communications Have Made the World a Village and I Am Its Idiot

Stress: Mobile Communications Have Made the World a Village and I Am the Village Idiot Part One: Anxiety and How Your World, Bad or Good, Is a Projection of Your Thoughts Dateline: Flight American Airlines 859 Austin to LA. There are a hundred or so people on this flight. We …

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Stress, the “It’s Just Thunder” Incident

Relationship Stress and the “It’s Just Thunder” Incident I’m Okay and You’re Okay… as Long as I’m With You– Dateline: Willie’s Roadhouse, Truck Stop Cafe in Abott, Texas. And, yes, the chicken-fried steaks lap over the edges of the plate. Note: This entry, along with the next introduce the series: “Las Vegas …

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Stress, Anxiety, and Videotapes

Anxiety and Stress in One Family’s Relationships Hear Ye!  Hear Ye! All ye people of the town within the sound of my voice, please lend me your ears! I have reason to believe I am being watched and videoed.  Therefore, any resemblance between a bleary-eyed, crazy blond chick you may see on …

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Stress. When Does Breaking Free of ‘Group Think’ Just Being Rude?

Stress. When Does Breaking Free of ‘Group Think’ Just Being Annoying? Stress relieving entry in progress on rudeness vs. independent thinking. Dateline:  Cabo San Jose, Baja California, Mexico. Pirates lived here.  Pirates live in the U.S., too. Before we let a teenager convince us that tattoos are her way of …

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Stress and Doing Your Own Thinking

Immediate Stress Relief: Join a Gang… Dateline:  Stress in a New Mexico Maximum Security Prison, via television. Where would any of us end up if–during those needy barely adolescent years—we had no sense of self and no sense of a future?  And we were offered both for the mere orice of …

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Stress and Ladies’ Room Etiquette

Stress and Ladies’ Room Etiquette Dateline:  Ladies’ room.  Big Rig Stress Management Truck Stop, Sonora, Texas. More thoughts on anxiety and fusion, that is, when the “togetherness force,” the push to go along with the group is winning over the “individuality force,” the push to operate separately from the emotional …

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