Category: attitude

Self-justification

June 13, 2006 | 2 comments

Self-justification is one of those qualities we often ignore and overlook because we hear it done so frequently. But honestly, it’s not a good quality. It’s a shortcoming of the trumped up human ego that seeks to hide its errors

Medicalizing human behavior

June 9, 2006 | No comments yet

Claude Lewis got it right in a column he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He began, “It may be hard to recall, but once there was a time when people took responsibility for their behavior, without recourse to the psychiatric

"I want it now"

May 30, 2006 | 1 comment

A recent AP poll says Americans are impatient. Can you believe it! Survey results confirm we’re a nation of customers seeking instant self-gratification and any bit of delay in getting what we want frays nerves. Waiting in a grocery line,

Suicide not helpful

May 13, 2006 | No comments yet

“I can’t take the suffering anymore. My life is hopeless. The depression is overwhelming. The only way out is suicide,” many people have despaired in moments of dark misery. When facing bleak options, it’s good to know there’s a better

The Land of Oz

March 25, 2006 | No comments yet

Mortality is no more real than life in the Land of Oz as depicted in the classic book, “The Wizard of Oz.” After reading the book or seeing the movie, the characters and place of Oz take graphic form in