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Hi Everyone,
Having finished a novel, CONDO, essentially getting that out of my system, I'm back to writing Everyone Needs Therapy, the book, nonfiction, our world right here.
Driven to making it relevant and research-based, I've been busily downloading and reading studies about topics of interest for the book, right now the anxiety disorders. Because seriously, who doesn't have one? Specifically OCD and HOARDING are capturing attention of late, so much so that it feels like the whole book should be about Anxiety Disorders. Who knows. Maybe it will. .
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The initial goal of ENT the book is not to be encyclopedic, but that could change. The thinking is that making it breezy and very much straight out of the therapist's heart, and voice, and of course psychoeducational and to the point, ENT can debunk myths and set the record straight. If that is even possible. Better, to bring the record, what is found to be empirically validated, for now, forward, with a heavy dash of examples.
To me the process has been a refresh, a breath of fresh air. There is nothing more satisfying than learning something new, finding a study that validates what I've suspected, what you might suspect, too, therapist or not, all of us arm-chair yoga ball chin strokers.
But it is even more wonderful when a lightning bolt hits, when I learn something that I never heard of before while browsing those digital stacks (#PSYCHINFO mostly). I take notes because that's how I learn. A person has to know how they learn best, we'll talk about that, but for me, writing it down burns stuff into my brain. This is especially true when the authors, those conducting the research, highlight concepts with capital letters, like #IU, Intolerance of Uncertainty. It isn't as if this being a source of anxiety is something new to me, but the caps are new. To me. Maybe they have been around but I've been busy living my life so yes, new to me.
So hopefully by June next year the first edition of Everyone Needs Therapy will hit the airport bookstores (joking, okay, joking).
Oh! And find me on #TWITTER. Aren't we supposed to find everyone on Twitter? It is easier putting out thoughts over there than over here, and what's the point of being a Baby Boomer if you can't defend your life on Twitter?
@therapydoc
Come on by. Like me. Or whatever it is people do. Maybe like is a Facebook thing. Follow is Twitter. Comment. I DON'T KNOW!
Forgive the pandering,
Love,
TD
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